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November is National Adoption Month! If you have not noticed, the media is alight with articles about adoption issues these days. These range from the Portraits of an Adoption series sponsored by adoption.net to local news coverage about adoption issues. My current favorite is the very well-reasoned response of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute to the recent Reuters series on … [Read more...] about Media Coverage Increases, But Good Placement Remains The Goal This November

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday lifted a stay placed on an adoption dispute involving a Cherokee girl that was keeping her with her father and blocking an Order recognizing the adoption by her adoptive parents. After a two-year legal battle, Baby Veronica is reunited with her adoptive family. However, the battle may not be over. To recap, in 2009, a couple from South Carolina began adoption … [Read more...] about Oklahoma Supreme Court Allows Baby Veronica To Go Home With Adoptive Parents

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States determined that certain provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act do not apply when Native American birth parents have never had custody of the child. Following the Supreme Court’s decision, the state court must review the case again. Thus, the child’s legal status is still not resolved. The facts of the Supreme Court case are well known and not … [Read more...] about ….But Where is the Child?