Welcome to part 2 of many; we will be traveling to China in 2010 to adopt our 4th child ( 2nd adopted child). We are adopting a boy with a cleft lip and palate from Nanning City (south China); bi-lateral CL./CP.
In part 2 we discuss budget, CL and CP details, his american name, and sending a package to ZongPei
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So today is the 10Th National Adoption Day here in the USA. We want to encourage all People to consider fostercare & Adoption if there is room in your life and home for a child. There are 129,000 children that might only be dreaming of a permanent family to call their own. We want
to encourage people in the GLBTQ community to think about the idea of adoption.
Please visit our families adoption page to find out where your state stands on GLBTQ Adoption laws.
http://www.gay-family-values.com/gayadoptionresources.html
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From a meeting with Utah State Senator Greg Bell. Child support is often thought of money spent in the child’s best interest. However, the unspoken truth is that child support is unaccounted funds given to the custodial parent and further used in a competition for federal bonus funds.
In the first half of the video, concerned citizen, Tony Curtis, questions whose interest is served by child support. Senator Bells attests that millions of dollars are tied to child support – the interest of the state. In the second half of the video a grown child of divorce testifies as to the need for more accountability.
One of the most discussed issues at the meeting was 50/50 equal Parenting legislation. Senator Bell explained to attendees the difficulties with jumping immediately to a 50/50 parenting presumption from the legislative and practical points of view and was open to looking further into 50/50 equal parenting based on research and studies.
Transcript:
Audience member: The best interests of the child is what I want to talk about. When we discuss this issue of 50/50 custody what often comes up is the economic situation for mothers. That’s not talking about the best interests of the child then. You’ve switched from the best interests of the child now to the best interests of one parent. And what I would like to say about this is we really need to separate those two issues, because if it’s truly in the best interests of the child having involvement from both parents, then why are we messing with that because we’re concerned about economics for one parent?
Senator Bell: Well, you make a great point and if you and I were designing a new world that’s where we would start. But we’re not. We’re stuck with a system and I’m just saying that there’s no way you’re going to lop off hundreds of millions of child support overnight or for even a three year ammortization. You know what I’m saying. It’s a huge economic and social shift and you know whether you and I and all the angels agree or not we’re not going to get the governor and 103 other people you know to move there overnight so ah you’re right. The interests of the child is not necesarily found with the child support cause the child support may or may not go to the best interest of the children.
Another audience member: Senator Bell, I am one of those children. My parents divorced in Montana. And my dad currently lives here in Utah. It was a very unfair situation and I’d like to see something on the legislature that puts parents in responsibility to that child support. I’d like to see a program like Horizontee cards for welfare that maybe we keep track of that child support so that we know it’s going for the children cause it’s not parental support, it’s child support. And my mom took the child support and didn’t use it to support me. My mom never gave me a college fund. She never made sure I had the tools to be a successful adult. I escaped from my mother from a very abusive situation at the age of 17. My dad had to continue paying child support till I was 19. And I didn’t live with my mom and I had no support from her. I would like to see something on the legislature that changes to where we do keep track of child support. My dad is currently $140,000… of what it goes towards, of what it’s spent on. Because the price of raising a child is not dependent on a percentage of a wage, it is a price, but shouldn’t we keep track of where that money goes so it’s not used for mommy when the children are gone, for her and the new husband to go away to Hawaii. That’s not a very useful use of that child support… and there’s parents trading there child support for drugs and all sorts of ridiculous things.
Just how much money is this hundreds of millions in child support?? According to the website of the Utah Office of Recovery Services, over $195.9 million was collected in fiscal year 2006. Of this amount over $23.4 million was distributed to the Utah Department of Health (as apposed to being distributed to recipient parents), and at least $6.3 million made it directly into the state’s general fund (as apposed to being distributed to recipient parents).
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Welcome to part 1 of many; we will be traveling to China in 2010 to adopt our 4th child ( 2nd adopted child). We are adopting a boy with a cleft lip and palate from Nanning City (south China); bi-lateral CL./CP.
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After an American mother sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia, Moscow said it was suspending adoptions to US families. A high level delegation from the U.S. State Department is scheduled to meet with Russian officials in Moscow on April 29 and 30. The officials will talk about how to better protect children and all parties involved in International Adoptions. For the moment though, many American families who have applied to adopt a Russian child worry about whether their Adoption process will continue. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee has more details on the obstacles in U.S.-Russian Adoptions and what adoptive parents are saying about them.
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Ark of Hope For Children is thrilled to partner with country music artist Wayne Warner and his Melodical Hearts Foundation to promote foster care and U.S. Adoption in 2008! “Project 50 Files” will benefit up to 50 high quality foster care/U.S. Adoption Agencies; one from every state in the U.S. promoting high quality care for thousands of children across the nation. Blair Corbett & Wayne Warner
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2005 UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute Summer Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders presents “Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) with Children with ASDs” by Marjorie Soloman, Ph.D.
Series: M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders [1/2006] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 11342]
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United States family that sent their adopted Russian son back to his home country by himself is under fire. The move prompted Russia’s foreign minister to freeze all future United States adoptions of Russian orphans. Russia says that the United States Adoption regulations have fallen short and unfortunately this has not been the first Russian-US adoption gone wrong.
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Russia’s foreign minister wants a freeze of all Adoptions to the United States today after a young boy was abandoned and was sent back to Russia. Russia says the United States will have to look at its adoption regulations in order for American families to adopt Russian children again. Chuck Johnson says that there is now an investigation into the family from Tennessee.
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When potty training girls, talk to them about potty training, lead by example, and try not to put stress on the child. Learn how to potty train girls through a routine with tips from a day care owner in this free video on Parenting and child care.
Expert: Veronice Baragas
Contact: www.MyWigglesandGiggles.com
Bio: Veronica Baragas has been working with children and families for 10 years. She owns and operates Wiggles and Giggles, which offers home daycare, babysitting services, and special events.
Filmmaker: Todd Green
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