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Re:Utah adoption against a fathers will - 2007/08/06 13:21
From the standpoint of addressing the extent of the adopt away problem, here's a shocking read on the horrible subject of adopt aways... "Choosing foster parents over fathers" by Jeffery M. Leving and Glenn Sacks, dated July 11, 2007. The article from the San Diego Union Tribune begins:
In the heartbreaking Melinda Smith case, a San Diego father and daughter were needlessly separated by the foster care system for over a decade. Last week, Los Angeles County settled a lawsuit over the case for an undisclosed sum. Yet a recent Urban Institute study found that the Smith case typifies the way the foster care system harms children by disregarding the loving bonds they share with their fathers.
Read the entirety of this article at: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070711/news_lz1e11leving.html
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