Bush Expands Law Promoting Adoption

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed legislation Tuesday expanding government incentives that promote adoption.

Bush renewed a law passed in 1997 that sends $4,000 in federal money per child to state governments that exceed their placement performances from the previous year. His signature also provides new financial incentives for states to place children 9 and older with adoptive families.

Under the reauthorized law, states will get an additional $4,000 for every adoption of a child 9 or older, over a baseline set by the Department of Health and Human Services. The department is also required to monitor efforts on adoption by the states, which oversee the foster-care system.

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[Ilsa]

1. Financial incentives

for govts to take away a child from his/her family of origin and give them away to the "right kind" of family. Makes my skin crawl.

"His signature also provides new financial incentives for states to place children 9 and older with adoptive families."

Yeah, I know. There's also plenty of good that will come from this. But financial incentives like that make me wonder.