Adoption Re-homing

Adoption News, Adoption Truth, Bad Adoption Practices, Mirah Riben on Huffington Post, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers September 21, 2015

U.S. GOA Report on Adoption Rehoming

By Mirah Riben Two years after Reuters’ five-part report on the rehoming of adopted children in the U.S., the U.S. Government Office of Accountability (GOA) has released a report entitled “Steps Have Been Taken to Address Unregulated Custody Transfers of Adopted Children” (GAO-15-733: Published: Sep 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 16, 2015). “GAO examined (1) the reasons adoptive families consider unregulated child custody transfers, and services that exist to support…

Mirah Riben on Huffington Post, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers, Pending Adoption Legislation, The Adoption Industry April 3, 2015

Is Criminalizing Rehoming the Best Solution?

By Mirah Riben Rehoming — the practice of giving adopted children away to other families — came to public attention, thanks to the September 2013 five-part exposé by Reuters, followed in December 2014 by a Dan Rather report. More recently, it became public that Arkansas State Representative Justin Harris (R -West Fork) gave his two adopted daughters, 3 and 6, to a man who allegedly sexually abused one of them,…

Mirah Riben on Huffington Post, More Adoption Blogs from Adoption Bloggers January 29, 2015

Un-Adopting: Is Divorcing Children an Acceptable Option?

By Mirah Riben A couple identified as Allen and Cheryl was the latest to seek the help of Dr. Phil in dealing with an out of control child who has been terrorizing their family. Their son, nine-year-old Steve, was diagnosed with 18 mental illnesses. He was placed in three mental hospitals in the last year alone and takes multiple medications to control his behavior, but nothing helped for long. Home…