Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Angeles last week, Frog was ordered to a foster home, where he will be closely monitored by probation authorities. Meanwhile, in Dallas, prosecutors were faced with the case of a 15-year-old from New York City who was caught carrying 50 bags of crack. In Detroit, Police Officer Paul Dunbar was buried after being fatally shot outside a suspected crack house by a 16- year-old. In Washington, elected officials from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia met to discuss the record number of drug-related killings and arrests in their region and propose stiffer penalties for selling...
...battle over Allyssa is in part a legacy of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law that has been invoked in thousands of custody disputes. It empowers tribal courts to make custody and foster-care decisions in most cases involving American Indian children. A large proportion of such youngsters are in the care of adoptive or foster parents, a situation that results partly | from a high incidence of teenage pregnancy, parental alcoholism and out-of- wedlock births on the impoverished reservations. Before the 1978 law, it was common for state courts and child-welfare agencies to place Indian...
...outflow led some tribes to fear for their cultural survival. Studies conducted in 1969 and 1974 found that between 25% and 35% of American Indian children were placed in institutions or in adoptive or foster care, mostly in non-Indian households. It was not unheard of for social workers to take children away from their parents "simply because their homes had no indoor plumbing," says David Getches, an expert on Indian law at the University of Colorado. Because it has discouraged such abuses and kept more Indian families together, says Getches, the legislation is a "success story...
...other side, non-Indian critics of the law charge that it permits tribal courts to remove Indian children from foster homes where they have lived happily for years. They complain that it allows tribes to lay claim to children who have never lived on a reservation, simply because one of their parents is part Indian...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Carrie Ross Welch...