Barriers to Adoption: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session ... June 25 and July 10, 1985 |
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abuse adop adopted children adoption agencies Adoption Exchange adoptive families adoptive homes available for adoption AVEGNO barriers to adoption biological biracial black adoptive black child black children black community Black families Black Social Workers Brown CHAIRMAN chil child welfare children in foster children in need Committee County court David Rawlings Deanna Department DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED dren efforts ethnic Federal foster care foster care system foster child foster children foster family foster homes foster parents free for adoption going groups handicapped Health hearing HESTER HOMELESS Homes for Black infants institutions issue Jenny kids legislation live Medicaid mother National number of children permanency planning permanent family permanent home placed problems prospective adoptive parents race racial recruitment Senator DODD Senator HAWKINS Senator METZENBAUM Social Services social workers special needs adoption special needs children staff statement testimony Thank tion transracial adoption Welf
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Page 59 - Without doubt, it denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home and bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and, generally, to enjoy those privileges long recognized at common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.
Page 59 - While this Court has not attempted to define with exactness the liberty thus guaranteed, the term has received much consideration and some of the included things have been definitely stated. Without doubt, it denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint but also the right of the individual to contract, to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire...
Page 216 - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the...
Page 111 - brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Page 52 - The fact of biological parenthood may incline an adult to feel a strong concern for the welfare of his child, but it is not an essential condition ; a person who assumes the role of parent, raising the child in his own home, may in time acquire an interest in the "companionship, care, custody and management"
Page 59 - Poe v. Ullman, 367 US 497, 543 (opinion dissenting from dismissal of appeal) (citations omitted). In the words of Mr. Justice Frankfurter, "Great concepts like . . . 'liberty' . . . were purposely left to gather meaning from experience. For they relate to the whole domain of social and economic fact, and the statesmen who founded this Nation knew too well that only a stagnant society remains unchanged.
Page 61 - At least where a child has been placed in foster care as an infant, has never known his natural parents, and has remained continuously for several years in the care of the same foster parents, it is natural that the foster family should hold the same place in the emotional life...
Page 216 - ... (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Page 59 - In a Constitution for a free people, there can be no doubt that the meaning of 'liberty
Page 61 - The actions of judges neither create nor sever genetic bonds. "[T]he importance of the familial relationship, to the individuals involved and to the society, stems from the emotional attachments that derive from the intimacy of daily association, and from the role it plays in 'promoting] a way of life' through the instruction of children as well as from the fact of blood relationship.