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Ohio investigates adoption agency amid rape case
From Fox News: Officials said Friday that they’re investigating a private adoption agency that helped place children with a man now accused of raping three boys in his care and prostituting one of them. The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said it has opened an investigation into ACTION Inc. The investigation follows the [...]
Pushing for open adoptions
From Sonoma News: Sometimes adoption and secrecy are synonymous, and adoptive families find themselves living in a hush-hush world. Sonomans Gene and Cathie Sperring, who raised two adopted children, believe families like theirs should let go of secrets and instead seek answers. They think adopted persons have a right to know who gave birth to [...]
Missouri: Parents Regain Custody of Son After Six Year Legal Battle
From Fox News (Kansas City): Seven years after he was born, a Raytown boy is finally living with his biological parents. Noah Bond’s birth father fought all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court to get his son back. Until August of 2011, Noah was living in Texas with a couple who wanted to adopt [...]
Utah: Dueling bills address giving unwed fathers notice of adoption
From The Salt Lake Tribune: Two lawmakers want to address the rights unwed biological fathers have in an adoption proceeding, but with notably different approaches. SB55, sponsored by Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, says a birth mother, adoption agency or attorneys involved may send a “prebirth notice” to any presumed father informing him of a [...]
With DNA Testing, Suddenly They Are Family
From The New York Times: Growing up, Khrys Vaughan always believed that she had inherited her looks and mannerisms from her father, and that her appreciation for tradition and old-fashioned gentility stemmed from her parents’ Southern roots. But those facets of her self-image crumbled when she was told, at age 42, that she had been [...]
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