📌 ICYMI 📌 NCFA Adoption Communications Manager Leah Sutterlin in a recent op-ed for the The Sacramento Bee highlights a new State Department ruling that’ll make it even more difficult for prospective parents to provide a safe, loving, permanent home for children in need. Congress needs to intervene. “Congress needs to conduct more oversight of the State Department and encourage them to work more closely with the adoption community on policy making, including insights from the 2020 open comment period on the ruling.” React and share this post with a friend if you agree Congress needs to conduct more oversight of the State Department and it’s slow-rolling of inter-country adoption ♻️ Full op-ed at the link in comments 🔗 #adoption #StateDepartment #Congress #intercountryadoption
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2moThis is a human tragedy, as inter-country adoptions have dropped nearly 95% since the State Department was put in charge. Congress should transfer this responsibility to hopefully a more “adoption friendly agency”, perhaps “Health and Hunan Services” (HHS), unless they have also gone “WOKE” like the State Department , where I was once proud to serve!