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As the children adopted in the early days of the transracial adoption experiment have reached middle age, a growing chorus of voices from adult transracial adoptees has emerged. Their collective experience can be found in films, [30] [31] scholarly articles, memoirs, [32] blogs, [33] and numerous books on the subject. [34] [35]
[193] [194] A coalition of New York and national adoptee rights activists successfully worked to overturn a restrictive 83-year-old law in 2019, and adult adopted people born in New York, as well as their descendants, today have the right to request and obtain their own original birth certificates.
The adoption code makes no exception for couples living together who are not married." [24] The law was updated in 2023 to use the phrasing "an unmarried couple may not adopt a minor" but kept the requirement of marriage. [25] Additionally, some courts have turned down requests to adopt a same-sex spouse’s child. [26]
Indiana is nearly the same, although a person who is 21 can marry a person who is 17 years old. Minimum age in 50 states: 4 states have no official minimum age, but still require either parental consent, court approval or both: California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. 2 states have a minimum age of 15: Hawaii and Kansas.
To be a Representative, a person must be aged 25 or older. This is specified in the U.S. Constitution. Most states in the U.S. also have age requirements for the offices of Governor, State Senator, and State Representative.[74] Some states have a minimum age requirement to hold any elected office (usually 21 or 18).
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When actor and travel blogger Mr. Abel posted about younger people signing up for AARP, the organization got roughly 150,000 new members, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The National Council for Adoption named its Washington, D.C., headquarters after Piester (named the Ruby Lee Piester Center) in 1995. The then Texas Governor George W. Bush asked her to serve on a special committee to improve the Texas foster care system, and she was inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame. [12]