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  2. Boys & Girls Aid - Wikipedia

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    Boys & Girls Aid (formally The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon) was founded in Portland, Oregon, in 1885 by a group of community and business leaders concerned with child welfare. [1][2] This non-profit organization started as an orphanage and is considered by some as a pioneer in applying the foster care model instead of the typical ...

  3. Oregon Compulsory Education Act - Wikipedia

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    In 1922, the Masonic Grand Lodge of Oregon sponsored an initiative to require all school-age children to attend public schools. [3] With support also of the state Ku Klux Klan and 1922 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter M. Pierce, the Compulsory Education Law was passed by a vote of 115,506 to 103,685. [4]

  4. Adoption and Safe Families Act - Wikipedia

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    ASFA was enacted in a bipartisan manner to correct problems inherent within the foster care system that deterred adoption and led to foster care drift. Many of these problems had stemmed from an earlier bill, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, [1] although they had not been anticipated when that law was passed, as states decided to interpret that law as requiring biological ...

  5. Holt International Children's Services - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.holtinternational.org. Holt International Children's Services (HICS) is a faith-based humanitarian organization and adoption agency based in Eugene, Oregon, United States, known for international adoption and child welfare. The nonprofit works in thirteen countries, including: Cambodia, China, Colombia, Ethiopia, Haiti, India ...

  6. How much an adoption costs and 4 ways to pay for it - AOL

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    Here’s the cost breakdown of how much it can cost on average to adopt a child, depending on the method: Foster care/public adoption: Less than $2,800. Independent adoption: $25,000 to $45,000 ...

  7. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Adoption in the United States. In the United States, adoption is the process of creating a legal parent–child relationship between a child and a parent who was not automatically recognized as the child's parent at birth. Most adoptions in the US are adoptions by a step-parent. The second most common type is a foster care adoption.

  8. Second-parent adoption - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The second-parent adoption or co-parent adoption is a process by which a partner, who is not biologically related to the child, can adopt their partner's biological or adoptive child without terminating the first legal parent's rights. This process is of interest to many couples, as legal parenthood allows the parent's partner to do ...

  9. Adoption - Wikipedia

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    Sister Irene is among the pioneers of modern adoption, establishing a system to board out children rather than institutionalize them. Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting of another, usually a child, from that person's biological or legal parent or parents. Legal adoptions permanently transfer all rights and ...