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Forum Friends: I received the following email today and wanted to share the information with those interested in joining ACT for Adoption.

Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Bartholet is Director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School (one of the sponsors of ACT for Adoption) and is a nationally renown child welfare and adoption advocate. Some of you may remember that she wrote an editorial in favor of international adoption in the Washington Post (Nov. 4, 2007) "Slamming the Door on Adoption - Depriving Children Abroad of Loving Homes."

ACT for Adoption
Introduction
December 2008
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We have an opportunity to restore adoption to its rightful priority as a legitimate, welcome solution to the needs of children living outside of family care.

ACT for ADOPTION is a coalition of supporters of adoption who can be mobilized to communicate with the White House, Members of Congress, government agencies and the press to educate and advocate for legislation, policies and administrative procedures supportive of adoption. Children without parents have no seat at the policy table, and no voice to refute sensationalistic articles that would deny a loving family to a child rather than face the hard work of effective regulation. We must be prepared to speak for them.

President-elect Barack Obama made his support for adoption clear during his campaign. Hillary Clinton, his nominee for Secretary of State, has been a member of the Congressional Coalition for Adoption (CCA). CCA is a bicameral, bipartisan caucus dedicated to improving adoption policy and practice, and to focusing public attention on the advantages of adoption. Confirmation hearings and legislative initiatives will begin early in 2009, and we have the chance to roll back the anti-adoption bias that has crept into both domestic and international child welfare agendas.

ACT for ADOPTION is sponsored by the Center for Adoption Policy, and the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School. You are receiving this mailing because of your existing relationship with the Center for Adoption Policy or the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School. To unsubscribe at anytime, please click on the link below.

Please also forward this email to anyone who you think will be interested - Subscription link. ACT for Adoption : Mailing List Signup
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Center for Adoption Policy Center for Adoption Policy
Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School
HLS : Child Advocacy Program

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