The Adoption and Safe Families Act

According to the adoption, analysis and reporting system, there were 104,236 children waiting for adoption in the United States in 2011 (4 pages). Adoption is the legal custody of an individual or family through legal procedures to obtain foster parents. Children 's parents lost their custody of their children because they were thought to be unsuitable for parenting due to negligence or abuse. After taking away the child from a horrible situation, he or she is taken to the Children's Service Division and placed with foster care facilities or family members.

The adoption of the Adoption Safety Family Law (AFSA) in 1997 established the children's safety, durability, and happiness goals ("adoption in 1997 and safe family law") in the child welfare system It was. One of the main guiding principles is that "child rearing is a temporary environment, not a place where children grow," (Children, Youth and Family Administration, 1998, p. 2). Another aim of AFSA is to encourage the child welfare system to "respect the children's development needs."

The title IV-E is a "permanent plan" strengthened by adoptive adoption in 1997 and safe family law (ASFA), which has led the practice of child welfare since the adoption of adoption in 1980 and the establishment of child welfare law The concept of concrete is embodied. . Generally, the state only receives IV-E funds for children in home care and they are under the order of a juvenile court or family court in the relevant jurisdiction to protect them from abuse and negligence It is located in. Spontaneous child placement agreements between parents are subject to a limited time federal compensation. Title IV-E requires the child welfare organization to do "a reasonable effort" to prevent children from entering outdoor care, usually in the form of family social welfare services. If the child welfare institution and the court judge that these efforts fail and the child decides to enter outdoor care, the court must approve the child's "permanent plan" according to the schedule described in Title IV - E It will not.