We want to force somebody who can't parent a child to keep a child?" [Dawn Geras] said. "We're groping. We're looking for help," she said of raising awareness. "Each of us as a citizen needs to know the law," Geras said. Since 2006 the Safe Haven law has to be taught in all Illinois school health education classes and by February of this year, all 50 states offered some way for parents to legally relinquish their newborns. The Save Abandoned Babies Foundation keeps statistics on the number of abandoned children in Illinois and the age and racial group of known mothers.
There is no more heartbreaking news story than the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby. In many instances it is the desperate act of a terrified teenager afraid to go to the nearest emergency room, fire or police station. Statistics indicate that 57 children are abandoned every day in this country. Shocked by the human toll, Debbe Magnusen launched a grass-roots crusade in July 1996 from her Costa Mesa home to prevent these tragedies.
WASHINGTON, April 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Last night the House of Representatives unanimously passed H.Res. 578, encouraging the Government of Romania to "amend its child welfare and adoption laws to decrease barriers to adoption, both domestically and intercountry, including by allowing intercountry adoption by persons other than biological grandparents. The Romanian child welfare system, including its ban on intercountry adoption, has been hailed by some as a model for protecting orphaned or abandoned children. In reality, the Romanian Government's own statistics and reports from concerned individuals in Romania indicate that the children's situations have actually worsened since passage of the new laws in 2004," said Commission Chairman Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS). "Members of Cong...
By Elizabeth Simpson | The Virginian-Pilot For the first few weeks, she was called Baby Sylvester. Not a very feminine name for a blue-eyed girl with delicate hands that waved from a cloud of blankets. So the girl's foster mother started calling her Mariah. A few weeks later, Moira Smith, the foster mom, stood quietly at a news conference while TV and newspaper photographers focused their cameras on the baby, just a couple of weeks old. Police and social workers told the media they needed help finding the girl's mother, who'd abandoned her at a Norfolk hospital. Come forward, they asked. They didn't want to prosecute the mother; they just wanted to make sure she was all right, and they wanted medical information about the baby. Larry Hill, spokesman for Norfolk police at the time, h...
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View an AP video about meth g ONLINE at wvgazette.com ST. LOUIS - Electronic systems that track sales of the cold medicine used to make methamphetamine have failed to curb the drug trade and instead created a vast, highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup. An Associated Press review of federal data shows that the lure of such easy money has drawn thousands of new people into the methamphetamine underworld over the last few years. Its almost like a sub-criminal culture, said Gary Boggs, an agent at the Drug Enforcement Administration. Youll see them with a GPS unit set up in a van with a list of every single pharmacy or retail outlet. Theyll spend the entire week going store to store and buy to the limit. Inside...
... race to determine which schools certain children may attend. The Seattle district, which has never ... enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race. . . Each respondent has failed to provid... students through the use of plans that abandoned busing and replaced it with greater student choice...
... be even more stressful if she has other children (Beck, 2002; Feldman & Eidelman, 2004). Mothers of..., "Some of your activities may also be abandoned because of the uncomfortable feelings resulting fr...National Vital Statistics Report, 57(7), 1-102. . Martin, J.A., Hamilton, B....
... HEARING: IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILDREN? ROMANIA'S BAN ON INTER-COUNTRY ADOPTION. SEPTEMB... more than 9,000 children a year are abandoned in Romania's maternity wards or pediatric hospital... -- according to our information and statistics -- of international adoptions submitted before the...
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