There is a large body of professional literature, including several recently completed
surveys, describing the barriers that undermine successful adoption outcomes (Macomber …

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 2007 and its 2003 reauthorization offered bonuses to
states that provide more children waiting in foster care with permanent families through …

Families that adopt children who are in foster care may receive monthly adoption assistance
payments to offset the cost of raising the adopted child. The amount of the adoption …

Adoption assistance entitlements support children whose birth parents cannot care for them.
The entitlements are meant to offset the extra cost to adoptive families of raising children …

Social safety nets are intended to reduce inequality by providing a minimum quantity of
resources and minimum quality of life for those people with the worst of luck. In the United …

Existing scholarship has predominantly looked at transfer with the composition classroom as
the primary location for writing skill development. Subsequently, composition scholars have …