AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES: decolonizing child welfare

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Monday, May 26, 2025

Protecting Families and Protecting the Future

At an April conference, they also acknowledged more analysis is needed to “better understand the timeline for Indigenization of tribal nations’ child welfare codes.” But their overall impressions of the data so far reveal that more tribes than ever before are seeking to “reawaken, reclaim, and revitalize their ways of knowing, being, and doing” by codifying these beliefs into written law.

WONDERFUL NEWS:

https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/tribes-are-decolonizing-child-welfare-practices-national-researchers-find/261317

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.