Issues in Adoption | More Foster Children Should Be Placed in Adoptive Homes

People working in the nation’s government-operated foster care system finally have gained permission to give a foster child’s safety and well-being priority over anything else.

That may seem like common sense, but for the past 17 years [1980–1997] federal law has required emphasis on reuniting the biological family, no matter how abusive conditions were likely to be—even if a parent had killed another child.

That is one of the changes in foster care policy brought about by the new Adoption and Safe Families Act [passed in 1997]. The act makes other improvements...

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