Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA)

1997 Adoptions and Safe Families Act

The Adoption and Safe Families Act speeds up the termination of parental rights and provides bonuses to states to get children adopted. Many parents are never even proven unfit before their parental rights are terminated and many children had relatives who cared and wanted to raise them.

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