How to Use this Blog
BOOZHOO! We've amassed tons of information and important history on this blog since 2010. If you have a keyword, use the search box below. Also check out the reference section above. If you have a question or need help searching, use the contact form at the bottom of the blog.
We want you to use BOOKSHOP! (the editor will earn a small amount of money or commission. (we thank you) (that is our disclaimer statement)
This is a blog. It is not a peer-reviewed journal, not a sponsored publication... WE DO NOT HAVE ADS or earn MONEY from this website. The ideas, news and thoughts posted are sourced… or written by the editor or contributors.
EMAIL ME: tracelara@pm.me (outlook email is gone)
ALMOST THREE MILLION VISITORS!
Spotty reporting and compliance with #ICWA - why is that?
Here.
In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA),
which was meant to keep Native American families together, after foster
care and adoption practices had seen thousands of Native children taken
from their families, ancestral lands and culture to be placed in
non-native homes. That law created a system of “preferred placements”
for Native children who enter care. The first choice is to place
children with family members, followed by members of the same tribe and
finally Native foster parents from other tribes. The last resort is
placement in non-native homes.
But the federal government has never compelled states to share how
well they satisfy that “preference,” leaving little or no data to
indicate who is doing a good job placing Native children in Native
homes.
The reporting that does exist is spotty at best.
In 2005, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed all 50 states and Washington D.C. about their ability to identify Native children in the system who were subject to ICWA in 2003.
“Only five states—Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and
Washington—were able to provide these data,” according the GAO report.
It doesn’t appear that reporting on ICWA compliance improved much in the subsequent years.
In 2015, Casey Family Programs, one of the largest charitable
foundations in all of child welfare, tried to ascertain ICWA compliance
in a brief entitled “Measuring Compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act.”
“Although cross-jurisdictional and collaborative efforts are
emerging, compliance measurement remains characterized by relatively
small, idiosyncratic efforts,” the thin report reads. “Empirical study
results are scattered, inconsistent, and highly specific to the state
and jurisdiction being examined.”
[WHY? It's Indian people - the most disrespected and underserved population. Indian Child Welfare is low on the list of priorities in American courtrooms. The ICWA is federal law. Federal law is supposed to be enforced. You can see that isn't the case with our most precious children... If you notice in our blog sidebar (right), the list of federally recognized tribes - take a look. It's not taught in school. Ignorance about Indian people is rampant. Trace]
Featured Post
SCALP COUNT 2024?? By Trace L Hentz (blog editor) Cash Bounties were paid for dead Indians. How did you get paid? Scalps. Where are all ...
Most READ Posts
-
By Trace Hentz Back in 2011, I posted a story on this blog about the book SUDDEN FURY and the grizzly murder of Maryland adoptive paren...
-
Adoption scandal exposed by muckraking Chinese journalists Bo Gu / NBC News Yang Libing (with his son) holds up a photo of his...
-
Editor NOTE: This is one of our most popular posts so we are reblogging it. If you do know where Michael Schwartz is, please leave a com...
-
Facts About Adoption You Won’t Hear from Adoption Professionals Every November we post accuracy about the effects of adoption on the adopt...
-
Eric Schweig Born: Ray Dean Thrasher on 19 June 1967 Inuvik , Northwest Territories , Canada Occupation Actor/Artisan/...
-
Here are some links if you are interested in the latest news: ...
-
[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: Adoptive parent shares thoughts on having returned... Received as a comment at the last Baby Veronica p...
-
St. Michaels was a residential school where generations of Indigenous children were abused. https://t.co/4qpnZ89uWf — Ruth H. Robertson (R...
-
I have been in touch with Lakota officials to offer information about other tribe's foster care systems - and what is working in India...
-
Using DNA tests, Dean Lerat has created a massive family tree for the Treaty 4 territory in Saskatchewan... By day, Dean Lerat is an RCMP st...
60s Scoop Survivors Legal Support
GO HERE:
https://www.gluckstein.com/sixties-scoop-survivors
ADOPTION TRUTH
As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.”
The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Please: Share your reaction, your thoughts, and your opinions. Be passionate, be unapologetic. Offensive remarks will not be published. We are getting more and more spam. Comments will be monitored.
Use the comment form at the bottom of this website which is private and sent direct to Trace.