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? Who says the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act hasn’t accomplished anything good? ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either. ASFA has helped create a generation of legal orphans, with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive home either.
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The first issue is devoted to the enormous harm done by the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act. ? Family Integrity and Justice Works , the group started by two former top federal child welfare officials, is publishing a quarterly magazine. One way to reduce the harm of ASFA is, of course, to provide real help to families.
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