Hawaii is considering the following, I'd be curious as to your thought on this
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A proposal before lawmakers is calling on social workers to continue home visitations of families and children even after adoptions are finalized.
Waimanalo Representative Lisa Marten introduced House Hill 2424. Part of it proposes a home visitation six months after adoption and a once-a-year home visit after that.
Proposed ‘Ariel’s Law’ looks to expand child welfare oversight | KHON2
In the Ariel Sellers case, the thread was renamed (ariel sellers-aka-isabella kalua). I wonder if the mods would consider doing that in this thread? Cincere and Classic were the boys birth names. I'm alerting on my post.
As an adoptive parent, I have some thoughts about this proposal.
First I want to say that I seriously doubt that there would ever be enough social workers available to visit EVERY adopted child once a year. That seems impossible.
Second, it seems unlikely, considering there are not enough resources available to deal with the many emergency cases we know about---much less trying to find a way to visit a family for no reason other than they adopted.
Third, I think there should ,at least, be a distinction made in this proposal, between children who have been in the foster system, and then adopted as opposed to an infant adopted in a private legal adoption, who was never in the foster care system. That might make more sense, if one wants to try and have the resources to make this work.
JMO
[In the case in Hawaii, and in this case in Calif City, the children were originally foster children, who were adopted and parents were paid to continue raising them. That is a significant difference than straight adoption.]
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study in the Netherlands found that
adoptive parents are actually less likely to mistreat children than other kinds of parents. The researchers examined records from Dutch child protective services documenting all cases of certified child maltreatment each year. The researchers compared the rates of abuse for different family types to the prevalence of those family types in the general Dutch population. Results showed that while stepparent families were over-represented among the child-maltreatment cases, adoptive families were significantly under-represented.
The risk for maltreatment among adoptive families was eight times lower than would be expected based on the frequency of adoptive families in the general population. Notably, adoptive parents typically must pass numerous background checks, including child-abuse clearances, before being approved to adopt. No other parents are vetted by such rigorous screening.
Are Adopted Children at Risk for Abuse?
