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An 8 page research paper analytically detailing the importance of the child's benefit in adoption. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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why a concept that has become known as "permanency planning" needs to be re-examined if the rights of adoptable children across the United States are to be protected.
First, for a large number of children beyond the age of infancy, traditional adoption practice, which makes it impossible for the child to ever see their
biological family again, is inappropriate. Second, the needs of the ethnically and racially diverse populations of major urban centers, require that alternatives to traditional adoption be developed, some involving various
members of the extended family. Third, the number of children of parents with HIV/AIDS is growing, and approaches that incorporate parental involvement in permanency planning are essential.
"In limbo" is a term that seems to have acquired currency without clarity about the adoption procedure/scenario. It seems to define a prolonged period of separation
of a child from nurturing parents, a period in which there is persistent confusion, conflict or uncertainty about future plans, parental authority, family relationships, and past history. Although many
children outside the child welfare system are undoubtedly living within seriously uncertain and unstable conditions, the concern here is with children for whom the state has accepted direct responsibility--children placed
in family foster care or in state facilities--and the legal, policy, and process obstacles that present barriers to adoption and leave children for an unnecessarily long time in a
potentially injurious limbo state. II. Review of Literature As Daly and Sobol have documented, policies relating to adoption vary across the United States
and even Canada as well. On many issues, the legislation is silent. Most of the literature I have read stresses that the concept and process of adoption, as generally
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