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Family Defender Issue 2 Print E-mail

Click Here to read Issue #2 in PDF (Summer 2007)

In this Issue: Sibling Rights and Remedies

Family Defense Briefs and Letter to the Editor, page 2

Letter from the Executive Director, back page

Features:

Meet a Young Family Defender: April Curtis, page 3

Should Siblings in Foster Care Have More Rights? A Conversation with a Panel of Child and Family Advocates, page 4

Foster Parents' Three-Year Struggle to Adopt Niece Highlights Common Concern of Parents in Child Welfare Cases, page 7

Where Can Families Find LEgal Help for a Child Protection Case? page 8

Making Sense of Sibling Rights: Current Law and Policy, page 8

The Family Defense Center Thanks All of Our Donors, page 10

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Issue #12 of the Family Defender is here!

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This letter perfectly expresses what so many of our clients (and thousands of families across the nation) have faced due to wrongful investigations by DCFS and other child welfare agencies.  Even the best of intentions can have serious repercussions!

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In response to legislation introduced in the wake of the recent Penn State scandal, see the Family Defense Center's Analysis of S. 1877 - the "Speak Up to Protect Every Abused Kid Act" (Click Here) and a listing of Child Abuse Misreporting Cases in the Docket of the Family Defense Center (Click Here).
 

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