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daily nebraskan
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Adoption agencies .
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The director of the institution said no:
"It's our policy that children here not own
anything."
Joey's story may be more poignant than
most, but those who have looked at child
care say it is not wildly atypical.
Couples or individuals who are interest
ed in adopting children often run into bar
riers erected - always in "the best interest
of the child" - by public agencies. A
couple may be too old, too fat, or disabled,
or of the wrong race or religion.
Agencies frequently wait passively for
natural parents to relinquish their long-since-abandoned
children instead of
moving aggressively to clear the children
for adoption.
Private or grass-roots organizations that
could help find homes for many of these
children often are not enlisted or even in
formed as to their availability - in Wood
son's description, the counterpart of the
real-estate industry's multiple listings.
Do agencies assume a proprietary inter
est in the children in their charge? It is
possible that some agencies cling to adopt
able children to justify their own continu
ed existence?
"I don't think it happens like that,"
says one man who has studied the prob
lem. "I don't think any agency director
says, 'Let's keep these 40 kids so we can
keep our staff busy,' or anything like
that," says Bob Piasecki of Philadelphia.
"What happens is that once a kid gets
into a group home, there often is no real
thought of getting him into a family situat
ion again. Institutions don't want to make
mistakes by placing children in adoptive
situations that turn out badly, so they stick
with foster care arrangements over which
they retain control."
Whatever the validity of the explana
tions, the result is that children who need
permanent homes and families willing, even
eager, to provide that permanence, fre
quently don't learn about each other.
And after several years of institutional
ization, many of the children become, as a
psychologist described Joey, "unable to
live in a family."
That's the truly hideous cost. The less
important cost is in mere dollars. Woodson
estimated it costs $100,000 mostly in fed
eral funds, to "keep Joey from being part
of a family."
(c) The Washington Post. Co.
s to die editor
Column trivializes defense spending issue
If it's true that reading bad journalism
kills brain cells, I'd be terminally comatose
from reading Casey McCabe's August 31
article addressing excessive defense spend
ing. Our national defense has been sadly
neglected for over a decade. If the author
of the article understood international re
lations, he would also understand there is
one factor that keeps us from nuclear con
frontation: our precarious balance of
power with China and Russia.
History has shown time and time again
that war occurs when the balance of power
in an international setting becomes unbal
anced. The issue of defense spending is in
deed a pressing one; however, the manner
in which the column was written simply
trivializes the issue.
What I object to most is the author's
apparent apathy and disinterest in the
motivation for the defense directives which
he addresses.
Christian Thompson, senior
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