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Chosen Children 2012
Billion Dollar Babies in America’s
Failed Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Systems
by Lori Carangelo
from the files of Americans For Open Records (AmFOR),
member of Amnesty International
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ORDER information for the forthcoming 2012 Edition
of CHOSEN CHILDREN will be
added here, as soon as the book is available from the publisher.
Contents
PROLOGUE, 1
PART 1 - FOSTER CARE, 3
Following the Dollars, 3
Foster Kids’ Outcomes, 5
Trafficking of Foster Kids, 8
Fostered, Orphaned, Abandoned, Institutionalized Kids Who Kill, 9
Alternatives to Foster Care, 18
---Model Programs That Work, 19
---What You Can Do, 24
PART 2 - ADOPTION, 25
Following the Dollars, 25
Closed, Semi-Open, Open Adoption, 31
Commercialization of Adoption, Commodifying Children, 32
AdoptSpeak and Censorship, 34
Church, State and Adoption, 36
---The Christian Right, Catholics and Adoption, 36
---Protestants and Adoption, 38
---Mormons and Adoption, 39
---Jews and Adoption, 40
---Muslims and Adoption, 41
Race and Adoption, 43
Geopolitical Mass Child Stealing, 46
---A Brief Chronology of Government Protected Child Stealing (1851-2011), 51
Human Rights and Adoption, 57
---Right To Personhood and the Degradation of Personhood, 60
Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Adopted: Double Identity Dilemmas, 60
More Pitfalls of Adoption - The Data, 64
---How Many Adoptees?, 64
---Who’s Counting?, 64
---Who’s Relinquishing?, 65
---Who’s Adopting?, 65
---How Do They Fare?, 65
Death By Adoption: Adoption Related Suicide, 68
---Suicide and Attempted Suicide by Adoptees, 68
---Suicide by Mothers Due to Loss of a Child by Adoption, 70
More Death by Adoption: Withholding Adoptees’ Family Medical Information, 70
---The Role of Doctors, 77
Still More Death by Adoption: Adopters Who Abuse and Kill, 78
---Percentages of Failed Adoptions, 78
---Abuse and Deaths of Russian Adoptees Caused by American Adopters, 82
---Abuse of Intercountry Adoptees by Sending Country, 88
---Adopters Who Abuse and Kill in Domestic Adoptions, 89
---Attachment Therapy and Re-birthing Deaths, 110
Donor Offspring Adoption, 113
Attorneys, ACLU, Adoptees - A Conflict of Interest, 114
National Right To Life (NRTL) and Adoptees: Another Conflict of Interest, 117
Insurance Companies: and Adoptees: One More Conflict of Interest, 118
America’s Dirty Little Secret: Adoptees’ Outcomes, 119
---Adoptees’ Outcomes Mired in Politics, 120
---Adoptees’ Behaviors Speak Louder Than Words, 120
---Attachment and Re-Birthing Therapies are "Out," 123
---Adopted Child Syndrome -"In,’ Then "Out," Now "In," 124
---Choosing a Therapist According to Evidence Based Practices, 125
---Adoptees, Abuse, Addiction and Mental Illness, 126
---Adoptees Who Lie, Cheat and Steal, 132
------Adoptees Incarcerated for Theft or Fraud, 132
---Adoptees Who Are Sex Offenders, 138
------Types of Sex Offenders and Their Victims, 138
------The Adopted Sex Offenders, 142
---Adopted Killers, 147
---Serial Murder - Crime of Rage, Crime of Possession, 147
------Why So Many Serial Killers Are Adoptees, 148
------The Adopted Serial Killers, 50
---Mass Murdering Adoptees, 163
---Adoptees Who Killed Their Adopters or Adoptive Relatives, 166
---Adoptees Who Killed Their Biological Parents -- Why It’s Rare, 193
---Adoptees Who Killed Strangers, 195
---Special Cases, Special Victims-Fetus Abductions by Adoptees, 211
Adoptaphobia, 212
Alternatives To Adoption, 213
---Kinship Care and Custody, 213
---Accountability, 214
---Guardianship vs. Adoption, 215
------Guardianship Costs and Subsidies, 215
------Gay, Lesbian, Transgender Parenting via Guardianship vs. Adoption, 215
---Adopt A Family, 216
The Open Records and Anti-Adoption Movements, 217
---Who We Are, 218
---Open Records Movement Organizations, 218
---Anti-Adoption Organizations, 219
------Adopters Against Adoption, 219
------A Brief Chronology of Adopters’ Issues, 219
------Adopters’ Lawsuits Highlight Wrongful Adoptions, 220
---What Adopters Can Do, 222
PART 3 - PRISONS, 223
Following the Dollars., 223
Privatization, A Double Edged Sword, 224
Data Collection, 227
Foster Kids and Adoptees in Prison, 227
Trying a Child "As An Adult" Doesn’t Make Him One, 231
Prison Marriages, 231
Playing the Prison Race Card, 232
Abuse of Female Prisoners, 232
Abuse of Male Prisoners, 234
Abuse of Gay/Lesbian and Transgender Prisoners, 234
Three Strikes and You’re Wrongfully Sentenced, 235
Wrongfully Convicted Adoptees and Their False Confession Phenomenon, 237
Civil Commitment of Sex Offenders, 240
The Death Penalty - Works in Elections, Not in Reality, 242
Alternatives To Prisons, 243
---Right to Adequate Representation and Trial by Jury, 244
---Boot Camps for First Time Offenders, 245
---Juvenile Justice Reform and De-Institutionalization, 245
---Sentencing Laws - Striking Out Three Strikes and Other Revenge Laws, 246
---Gun Control Laws, 247
---Rehabilitation - Drug Laws and Treatment, 248
---Prevention - Education, Job Training and Placement Programs, 249
---Community Support, 250
---Separating Child Support from Visitation., 250
---Restitution, 251
---An Open Prison System, 251
EPILOGUE, 253
BIBLIOGRAPHY, 255
Chronology of Adoptee Psychopathology Studies 1941-1995, 258
RESOURCES DIRECTORY, 257
INDEX, 261
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, 272
