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Podcast: Cato Event Podcast
Episode: Solomon’s Decree: Conflicts in Adoption and Child Placement Policy - Panel 2: When Policy Stands in the Way of Adoption
Description: America has developed its own decentralized and pluralist approach to adoption, with a wide variety of both private and public actors helping match children with the families they need along several paths: adoption of older children in public care, including the foster-to-adopt path; adoption of newborns; and international adoption. But services for children in public care have been swept up in controversy over what if any role is appropriate for religious and other agencies that decline to work with gay parents or that give preference to cobelievers. The rate of international adoption, once hailed as a success, has plunged in...