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Rewards suggested to boost adoptions
Washington Times ^ | Sunday, April 13, 2003 | By Cheryl Wetzstein

Posted on 04/12/2003 11:43:14 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The Bush administration is concerned about school-age children languishing in foster care and wants to reward states for finding adoptive families for them, a government official told a recent House hearing.

"While the overall number of children being adopted from foster care has grown dramatically, older children in foster care still face excessively long waits for adoption and, in many cases, are never adopted," Wade F. Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the Department of Health and Human Services, told the House Ways and Means subcommittee on human resources this week.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adoption; asfa; fostercare; hhs; wadehorn
Sunday, April 13, 2003

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