Easy peasy for a busy Saturday, two petitions, both on Change.org. Sing them if you have not already. Share them to Facebook, Spam your connections, Tweet them and email your contacts. Tada, now go off and enjoy your day!
Governor Andrew Cuomo: NYS Should Fund Statewide Post Adoption Services
While most children who joined their family by adoption do not need specialized post adoption services, many children who were abused, neglected, traumatized, or exposed to alcohol prenatally prior to their placement in their adoptive families have unique mental health needs which are not being served by programs in the community. Research has shown that children are not being adopted from foster care because of a lack of post adoption services. Young adults who leave foster care without families are more likely to be homeless, be involved in the criminal justice system and on public assistance.
Petitioning The U.S. Senate: Create “Veronica’s Law”
https://www.change.org/petitions/create-veronica-s-law
We need the US Senate to create a bill called Veronica’s Law. It should ensure that children placed for adoption receive the consent of both natural parents for placement or the child should have a legal and constitutional right to a best interests hearing and a right to remain with a fit and loving natural parent or grandparent, when one exists, in any contested adoption.
Children like Veronia Brown, now known at age four as the newly-adopted Veronica Capobianco, with a fit and loving natural father and grandparents, are being trafficked by an unregulated adoption industry. Children’s human right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness (and heritage) within their birth family with a fit and loving parent or grandparents are seldom being considered in private adoptions running rampant. Private adoption should not be a for-profit industry desecrating the rights of fit biological parents, and federal regulation is desperately needed..
