This article, published by the Akron Beacon Journal, mentions Discovery Institute: That same year, the Discovery Institute, a group in Seattle, issued a report disputing the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute report. Author William Pierce, the founding president of the National Council for Adoption, noted that the claims by the opposition couldn’t be proven, either. The rest of the article Read More ›
It is all well and good, as TomPaine.com does in its Feb. 19 blast at President Bush, to go after a political opponent. That would be fair, if it were based on fact. But the regulations being changed impact no families, adoptive or otherwise, because not a single state chose to implement them. To criticize President Bush for an action Read More ›
The votes are not all tallied from the Nov. 5, 2002, elections – an historic milestone since, not since President Teddy Roosevelt has a Republican President gained seats in both the Senate and House in an off-year election. And there are vastly different ideas about whether the lame-duck session of Congress will feature a shift to the Republicans in the Read More ›
There has been general agreement from those across the ideological and political spectrum that Florida’s new law requiring women to publish the details of their sexual resumes if they want to place a baby through private adoption should be changed. But now, in an Aug. 22 column in The Washington Times, Dianna Thompson and Glen Sacks claim that the law Read More ›
Prospective adoptive families scanning the news today and finding no information about the adoption tax credit can relax. Sources on Capitol Hill said Saturday that the Republican-controlled Conference on the President’s proposal to return some of the tax surplus to citizens included the credit in the package. According to these sources, tucked into the bill that will be signed into Read More ›
On both sides of the Atlantic, the argument is being made that the only way to find enough families for children in need of homes is to allow cohabiting persons who are unmarried whether heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered to adopt. At first, the heightened attention by the media on gay and lesbian adoption was spurred in Read More ›
Here’s a riddle: How can a child’s mother become his sister, and his grandmother his mom? Answer: By government edict in America’s newest welfare trend, “kinship care.” Thanks to a biased social service system, welfare recipients anxious for more benefits, and gullible elected officials, the nation’s burgeoning foster care system is being used to discourage adoption of at-risk children and Read More ›
Conna Craig is a former foster child, and adoptee, who heads the Institute for children in Cambridge, Mass. She describes a teenage present-day foster child who observed, “Everywhere I go, someone makes money by keeping me from having a mom and dad.” How can that be? How can the child welfare system that is supposed to protect and serve kids Read More ›