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A World Wide Web Of Unwanted Children: The Practice, The Problem, And The Solution To Private Re-Homing, Megan Testerman
A World Wide Web Of Unwanted Children: The Practice, The Problem, And The Solution To Private Re-Homing, Megan Testerman
Florida Law Review
A deplorable practice has emerged in the world of adoption. Adoptive families are now using the Internet to give their unwanted adopted children over to complete strangers, some of whom are traffickers, pedophiles, child pornographers, or worse. This practice is known as private rehoming. Through the use of online message boards and a simple notarized power of attorney document, adoptive parents are circumventing the adoption system—including its home study and background check requirements for prospective parents—and placing children in great danger. Because only a handful of states have enacted legislation directly targeting private re-homing and because no such legislation exists …
In The Name Of The Child: Race, Gender, And Economics In Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl , Bethany R. Berger
In The Name Of The Child: Race, Gender, And Economics In Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl , Bethany R. Berger
Florida Law Review
On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court decided Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, holding that the Indian Child Welfare Act did not permit the Cherokee father in that case to object to termination of his parental rights. The case was ostensibly about a dispute between prospective adoptive parents and a biological father. But this Article demonstrates that it was about a lot more than that. It was a microcosm of anxieties about Indianness, race, and the changing nature of parenthood. While made in the name of the child, moreover, the decision supports practices and policies that do not forward and …