Adoption | Chapter 4 Preface
In 2000, Tina Johnson, a San Diego-based Internet adoption broker, exploited two hopeful adoptive couples. After Johnson had placed Kiara and Keyara, a pair of twin baby girls, with Richard and Vickie Allen, their birth mother took them back and gave them to Alan and Judith Kilshaw, a British couple that offered Johnson a higher fee for the twins. The Kilshaws then flew to Arkansas, adopted the babies under the state’s lenient adoption laws, and renamed them Kimberley and Belinda.
When Johnson’s scam was revealed, an Arkansas judge nullified the adoption on the grounds that...
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Should Adoption Be Encouraged?
- Chapter 2: Whose Rights Should Be Protected in the Adoption Process?
- Chapter 3: What Types of Adoption Should Be Encouraged?
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Chapter 4: Should Adoption Policies Be Changed?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Adoption with Clear Familial Boundaries Is Best
- An Open Adoption Policy Is Best
- Adoption Records Should Remain Sealed
- Adoption Records Should Be Opened
- Policies Should Emphasize Family Preservation
- Policies Should Not Emphasize Family Preservation
- The Internet Should Be Used to Recruit Adoptive Families
- Internet Adoption Remains a Gray Area
- Chapter 4 Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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