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Adoption
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Family Law Prof Blog
Breakdown of English Adoptions
By Family Law
From Family Law Week:The most comprehensive study ever to be carried out into adoption in England has confirmed that the rate of breakdown is lower than anticipated, but it also…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Berger on Adoption
By John Kang
Bethany Berger, UConn Law, has uploaded "In the Name of the Child: Race, Gender, and Economics in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl." The article is forthcoming in the Florida Law…
Family Law Prof Blog
Adoptions in Ohio
By Family Law
From the Columbus Dispatch:Janice Matteo plans to download a document that might change her life.Matteo said she will fill out a Contact Preference Form, a new way for Ohio birth…
Family Law Prof Blog
Foreign Adoptions Down
By Family Law
From US News:The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents plunged by 18 percent last year to the lowest level since 1992, due in part to Russia's ban on…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
La Famille…..
By John Kang
There's this from the New Yorker Blog: “Our country is in the midst of an economic crisis at the same time there is a social crisis,” Ludovine de la Rochère, the…
Family Law Prof Blog
An Adoption Story
By Family Law
From Tony Gambino, the husband of GW Law Professor Naomi Cahn, writing for Slate:The story of Philomena Lee and her son, told in the new movie starring Judi Dench, scorches…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Higdon on Marginalized Fathers and Demonized Mothers
By John Kang
Michael Higdon at Tennessee Law has uploaded Marginalized Fathers and Demonized Mothers: A Feminist Look at the Reproductive Freedom of Unmarried Men.The abstract: Just last month, in the state of Utah,…
Family Law Prof Blog
Friends Can Adopt Child
By Family Law
From the Christian Post:A judge ruled that a New York City couple who are just friends can legally adopt a child, as mother and father, even though they live in…
Legal Profession Blog
Ethics Of Private Adoptions
A recent opinion from the District of Columbia Bar Legal Ethics Committee:Lawyers who represent clients, whether birth parents or prospective adoptive parents, in private or independent adoption proceedings in the…
South Carolina Adoption Law Blog
ICWA Doesn’t Help Absentee Parent
In Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, the United States Supreme Court, in essence, says that an absentee Indian cannot rely on ICWA to challenge an adoption. The Court said that the heightened standard outlined…