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After drop in poll, AG recuses himself in NY probe - Fox12Idaho

On the bench, Kaye wrote groundbreaking decisions on adoption rights for gay couples and the death penalty. She has no prosecutorial or investigative background. Cuomo was investigating Paterson's role in the case in which a woman accused a trusted ...

Panel Proposes Single Standard for All Schools - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents proposed a uniform set of academic standards on Wednesday, laying out their vision for what all the nation's public school children should learn in math and ...

Panel suggests uniform standards for public schools ... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A panel of educators convened by the nation's governors and state school superintendents on Wednesday proposed a uniform set of academic standards, laying out their vision for what all the nation's public school children should learn in math and ...

RECREATIONAL GROUPS PREVAIL IN TRAVEL MANAGEMENT SUIT - UTV Guide

GREAT FALLS, MT (March 11)--A coalition of recreational groups has prevailed on the merits of their lawsuit challenging the Travel Management Plan for a portion of the Lewis and Clark National Forest in north central Montana. The order was issued on ...

Written by Raven Clabough - New American

Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, and several others have initiated the adoption procedures, but because ... Michael Cohen, an Education Department official from the Clinton Administration, acknowledges these strengths. “

Sen. Roy Ashburn Is the Latest to Succumb to Faustian ... - Huffingtonpost.com

Larry Craig, former Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley, along with conservative ... Their double lives have led to votes against AIDS research, same-gender marriage and gay adoption, causing harm to countless numbers. Ultimately, it has been a losing ...

Haiti frees missionary, but group’s leader still held - The Keene Sentinel

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group’s leader remained in custody. Charisa Coulter, 24, was taken from her jail cell to the ...

Archive for March 2005 - The Spokesman-Review

The conference committee has agreed unanimously to split the difference, and give tobacco wholesalers a roughly $300,000-a-year windfall at state expense, rather than the $800,000 to $1 million they wanted or the $500,000 or so the Senate agreed to ...

Panel pushes uniform education standards - St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Greetings and welcome to the Clean Energy Fuels fourth quarter fiscal 2009 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. (Operator ...

Voting Question: What can grandparents do when their grandchild is put up for adoption without being informed.?

Our son and daughter in-law that live in Idaho put their baby up for adoption without informing any family members. His dad and I live in Texas so we do not see them or talk to them very often. The day after the baby was born, they informed us that the baby (which is a girl) was put up for adoption. Had they let us know that they where not in any financial state to take care of this child then we would and still would raise this child. This young couple already has two other children ages 2 1/2 and 16 months. They are have marital problems also. But we are outraged that we where not informed of this adoption and given a chance to raise this child. Does any one have any suggestion for us. We cannt get our son to talk to us about it. The baby was born February 15, 2010 so we still have some time. Please help!!! more

Resolved Question: What do you think of proposition 6 in Idaho?

In my state we're trying to get this on the ballot allows poor families and people with a history of drug use to gain cash intensives to be sterilized and put their children up for adoption rather then countinues to pay for baby after baby, The incentive would be $5000 for women and $500 for me to be sterilized and another $5000 if they put the child up for adoption to a financially stable family. This would save the tax payer so much money in medical, aid and food stamps what do you think? more

Resolved Question: I want to understand something in the following paragraph. Can any one help me?

Silsby, 40, of Boise, Idaho, was asked if she didn't consider it naive to cross the border without adoption papers at a time when Haitians are so concerned about child trafficking. "By no means are we any part of that. That's exactly what we are trying to combat," she said. What is meant by? 1-Silsby, 40, of Boise 2-was asked if she didn't consider it naive to cross the border without adoption papers 3-By no means are we any part of that. (Is the use of the words correct?) more

Resolved Question: I want ti understand something in the following paragraph. Can any one help me?

Resolved Question: What do you think of this terminology? "pre-adoption birth certificate"?

This is the sentence in it's entirety..""In some states, adoptees still do not have the right to their own pre-adoption birth certificate. "" I read this here... http://idahopress.newswest.com/blogs/thenextpage/?p=110 as I was searching for more current news reports on the "Idaho 10" and fell upon this blog wherein the blogster said the "Idaho 10" were old friends of her in another one of her writings. It appears she is also an Adult Adoptee. I am not saying I am yay or nay about this terminology...but just found it curious as this is the first time I have ever heard the original birth certificate being referred to as a "pre-adoption birth certificate". Just wanted to know what you all think, your opinions on this terminology. Those who are actively involved in access to original birth certificates (closed records), have you heard the OBC being referred to as a "pre-adoption birth certificate" before? Just wondering and am curious. Thank you...ETA: to JenniferL.."evidently" you did not read the blogster's blog that I gave the link for..is titled "The Age old Practice of Adoption" and not a piece or an argument on why or why not Adult Adoptees should have access to their OBCs. The sentence that I quoted was just a sentence she included about adoption practices in general today.ETA: ""There is no such condition as the ''pre-adoptive state." If so, then all of us would fall under that term...the non-adopted as well."" Thanks Kitta, interesting thought in regards to a "pre-adoption birth certificate".ETA: HOLY COW!! Thank you Rosie for finding/sharing these links. Honestly, I was thinking that the adult adoptee who wrote that particular blog...just kind of made up that terminology for her own usage. Honestly, I have never heard of this term before.. see, even I can learn something new! And I have!ETA: From doing my own google search now...am half understanding how this term is coming about. Seems there has been a problem, in those states where adoptees have access, that when they requested their OBC..some were sent a copy of their "Original" Amended BC, rather than the Original birth certificate wherein that document states their "Pre-adoptive" identity! Only in adoption does the most natural event in human life..birth...become so convoluted by way of adoption. oy, oy, oy! more

Resolved Question: Haiti - American Church Members, Saviours or Child Abductors?

The news has just broken that many of the 'orphans' which were 'rescued' by members of the arrested American based, Meridian, Idaho, Church were in fact not orphans at all and have families alive and well and living in Haiti. The arrests had echoes of those of workers from a French religious charity who were arrested in Chad, in November of 2007. and subsequently convicted of kidnap. The arrests which were made as church members allegedly attempted to cross the Haitian border with the children who, it would seem, had with them no passports or documentation of any kind, a fact in itself which would have made repatriation of the children at a later date, as it was claimed was the intention, extremely difficult if not downright impossible. At the time of the arrests there was a great deal of anger in the U.S. and elsewhere in the West I'm sure, at what was widely regarded as poor helpless orphans being denied a better life in the U.S.A. Surely, if these people wanted to help the children then they should have offered help and support in Haiti. There seems to exist an arrogance particularly amongst some Americans but by no means exclusively so, about what is best for the poor of the Third World and in particular their children, which seems to be predicated on material wealth and right-wing Christian morals. These attitudes are uncomfortably reminiscent of those which prevailed in Great Britain in the late nineteenth century at a time when Christian missionaries travelled to remote parts of the British Empire to bring God and civilisation to the 'heathen savages'. More recently we witnessed, in Australia, Aboriginal children stripped from their families to be given a 'better life' with white families or in care homes, and more recently still, poor often slum dwelling English children around the time of WWII 'transported' to live with Australian families under the guise of war evacuation, but in fact this was done to bolster and add new blood to the Australian population. Sadly, many of both the Aboriginal and British children finished up physically and/or sexually abused. In very recent times we have seen film stars and wealthy celebrities such as the singer Madonna causing a great deal of controversy when they have bought their most recent little black, brown or yellow baby. In the case of Madonna, her P.R. machine tried to counter the negative comments, which abounded at the time, by pointing to the financial advantages that this 'lucky child', Baby David, would win by becoming part of his new dysfunctional family. Who the hell are we to make value judgements about the quality of life of others? I wonder what would be the attitude of the many Americans if wealthy Europeans or God forbid Africans or Asians were caught trying to smuggle poor children from the projects and trailer parks of the U.S.A. to give them a better life in their countries? - Actually no don't answer that one, but I'm sure you see the point that I am trying to make. Now I am not suggesting for one moment that true orphans who are in need of adoption should not be relocated abroad but these decisions should be made by the proper agencies, for proper reasons and following proper procedures which have built into them safeguards to protect the interests of the child and not by some rag tag bunch of religious missionaries who imagine themselves to be on a quest from their god or, worse, adventurers who see the children as a commodity which can carry a bounty of upwards of $10,000 per head. Saviours or Child Abductors, You decide?Thanks to all who’ve joined this debate so far, it is a relief to note that most of you pretty much agree with my point of view maybe I should try to answer one or two of you who didn't. * Docker - You completely missed the point I was trying to make - who decides what is 'better off'? * $$$ - Oh my! This sounds like a case of sour grapes, are you sure that you are getting enough? * Sophie, what venom! - I wondered at first whether you had accidentally attached your answer to the wrong question. I never mentioned 'conservatives' also I was not aware that I had expressed any hate or bigotry. I am assuming that you harbour these feelings because I have mentioned Americans. I certainly had no intention of trying to denigrate or cause any offence to my Colonial cousins but unfortunately, in this case at least, the child snatchers were American and so this would automatically apply an American spin and any reference to arrogance was meant to apply to all of us in the developed world. more

Resolved Question: What is everyone's opinion of this artical ?

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a "Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission," meant to save abandoned children from the chaos following Haiti's earthquake. Their plan was to scoop up 100 kids and take them by bus to a rented hotel at a beach resort in the Dominican Republic, where they planned to establish an orphanage. Whether they realized it or not, these Americans — the first known to be taken into custody since the Jan. 12 earthquake — put themselves in the middle of a firestorm in Haiti, where government leaders have suspended adoptions amid fears that parentless or lost children are more vulnerable than ever to child trafficking. "In this chaos the government is in right now we were just trying to do the right thing," the group's leader, Laura Silsby told The Associated Press at the judicial police headquarters in the capital, where the Americans were being held pending a Monday hearing before a judge. Silsby said they only had the best of intentions and paid no money for the children. She said her group obtained them through a well-known Haitian pastor named Jean Sanbil of the Sharing Jesus Ministries. Silsby, 40, of Boise, Idaho, was asked if she didn't consider it naive to cross the border without adoption papers at a time when Haitians are so concerned about child trafficking. "By no means are we any part of that. That's exactly what we are trying to combat," she said. Social Affairs Minister Yves Cristallin told reporters the Americans were suspected of taking part in an illegal adoption scheme. Cristallin said the 33 children were lodged late Saturday at an SOS Children's Village outside of Port-au-Prince. SOS Children's Villages is a global nonprofit based in Austria. Many children in Haitian orphanages aren't actually orphans but have been abandoned by family who cannot afford to care for them. Advocates both here and abroad caution that with so many people unaccounted for, adoptions should not go forward until it can be determined that the children have no relatives who can raise them. UNICEF and other NGOs have been registering children who may have been separated from their parents. Relief workers are locating children at camps housing the homeless around the capital and are placing them in temporary shelters while they try to locate their parents or a more permanent home. The U.S. Embassy in Haiti sent consular officials, who met with the detained Americans and gave them bug spray and MREs to eat, according to Sean Lankford of Meridian, Idaho, whose wife and 18-year-old daughter were being held. "They have to go in front of a judge on Monday," Lankford told The Associated Press. "There are allegations of child trafficking and that really couldn't be farther from the truth," he added. The children "were going to get the medical attention they needed. They were going to get the clothes and the food and the love they need to be healthy and to start recovering from the tragedy that just happened." Haiti has imposed new controls on adoptions since the earthquake, which left thousands of children separated from their parents or orphaned. The government now requires Prime Minister Max Bellerive to personally authorize the departure of any child as a way to prevent child trafficking. Silsby said they had documents from the Dominican government, but did not seek any paperwork from the Haitian authorities before taking 33 children from 2 months to 12 years old to the border, where Haitian police stopped them Friday evening. She said the children were brought to the pastor by distant relatives, and that the only ones to be put up for adoption would be those without close family to care for them. The 10 Americans include members of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho and the East Side Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho, as well as people from Texas and Kansas. Idaho friends and relatives have been in touch with them through text messages and phone calls, Lankford said. "The plan was never to go adopt all these kids. The plan was to create this orphanage where kids could live. And kids get adopted out of orphanages. People go down and they're going to fall in love with these kids, and many of these kids will end up getting adopted." "Of course I'm concerned for my wife and my daughter," he added. "They were hoping to make a difference and be able to help those kids." The group described their plans on a Web site where they also asked for tax-deductible contributions, saying they would "gather" 100 orphans and bus them to the Dominican resort of Cabarete, before building a more permanent orphanage in the Dominican town of Magante. "Given the urgent needs from this earthquake, God has laid upon our hearts the need to go now vers more

Resolved Question: Is stealing children a sin ?

An American religious group New Life Children's Refuge and affiliate of World Harvest Mission an affiliate of Gospel Ministers and Churches International, based in Glendale, Arizona. Has been caught stealing children from Haiti. Do you think child stealing for God is a good thing or disgusting and morally repugnant ? ============================================= http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/31/2805914.htm Americans caught taking children out of Haiti It is feared traffickers are exploiting the chaos and turmoil following Haiti's earthquake to adopt out children. (AFP: Jewel Samad) Haitian police have arrested 10 United States citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities say. Authorities fear traffickers could try to exploit the chaos and turmoil following Haiti's January 12 earthquake quake to engage in illegal adoptions. But one of the suspects, who says she is leader of an Idaho-based charity called New Life Children's Refuge (NCLR), denies they have done anything wrong. The five men and five women are in custody in the capital Port-au-Prince after their arrests on Friday night. They were detained at Malpasse, Haiti's main border crossing with the Dominican Republic, after Haitian police conducted a routine search of their vehicle. Authorities said the Americans had no documents to prove they had cleared the adoption of the 33 children - aged 2 months to 12 years - and no papers showing the children were made orphans by the quake. Yves Cristalin, Haiti's social affairs minister, says the incident is "totally illegal". "No children can leave Haiti without proper authorisation and these people did not have that authorisation," he said. more

Voting Question: Any attorney's out there that can help me out with information about waiver of child support for adoption?

Okay, so my husband's ex wants to sign over her rights for me to adopt my stepson but only if he waivers back pay child support. We live in Alaska and she lives in Idaho and has an attorney but he doesn't have an Alaska license. I have all the paper work to file for adoption but we don't know how to go about with the waiver of child support or even if it is possible. We are not going to get an attorney because we can't afford one and plus we're not going to pay for one for us to waive child support that she was obligated to pay. Do they just have to agree during the adoption hearing to waive child support? ThanksThanks, figured out I don't need a lawyer. My husband will file a joint motion to waive the child support after the adoption decree that way she can't "screw" us over. more

Resolved Question: I'm moving, and i cant bear to leave him benind, so what should i do? (hes a cat)?

So i havw this cat, Maxwell. We have a special story. I was on my way home from grandmas house (she lives three hours away) about five or six years ago, and my mom pulled up to a gas station and stopped to get gas. Well, i glanced back, and saw a black cat in the small hills outside of a college in Michigan. So, i convinced my mom (who thouht I saw a black squirrel) to drive over and let me see if I could find it. So, she took me over there, and I got out, and she started yelling saying it could be vicious. I called for the kitty, and he pranced up to me, so i picked him up (stupid move, i know, but i loved him) and he started doing this nursig thing on my sweater. I brought hum back to the car, and he clinged to me, and convinently, we had a little thing of milk. He was starving, and so we gave him some. We drove him to the local shelter and i was crying because I wanted to keep him. My mom todl me that if he was still there in a week, then we could go get him. A week and a half later, we were driving back to the shelter to puck up our new family member. He was the first cat ive ever had. I paid for him and *I* signed the adoption form, so hes mine. I also have two more cats, Judie, who is my absolute baby, and also has a medical condition that interferes with her breathing. I adopted her too, and i love her sooooo much. and Mama kitty, who is my mom's cat. I'm moving to Idaho soon, and the people were renting the house from said we can only bring two pets. I have to pick between max and judie to come with me. I dont know what to do!! I feel like my parents are making me move, leave my friends, my school, and everything. So, I think I should be able to bring both my cats and leave mama kitty with a family member or the neighbors that want her. What should I do? If i have to choose which cat, who should i choose?? Sorry about how long this is! more

Resolved Question: idaho stat rape law questions...and suggestions?

ok so ive gotten myself into quite a pickle. im 20 yrs old and have 1 son and am prego again. i was going to get an abortion (considering my stupid choice of dating a 16 yr old) and decided i was going to keep it and give it up for adoption to my sisters best friend who cant have kids. and that was the only reason i decided to keep it because im not ready to raise a baby alone and him being so young i know i will get no help from him. anyways im trying to break up with him because hes starting to become violent towards me. he hasn't actually hit me yet but i can see it coming. and today his mom was threatening me with statutory rape and saying that she will push charges if i try to give the baby away. obviously him being a minor he has no say. and the parents have little from what i hear. so im just wondering if they really can stop me and can push for stat rape. i mean really he should be charged with rape because there have been plenty of times i said no and he thought it was a joke and did it anyways and i would just stare at the wall...sooo im not really sure where to go from here...any HELPFUL ideas would be great. i really don't need any more put downs. i already know it was stupid. he is the only minor i have dated or done anything with just for this reason. and he told me he was going to be 18 on jan 1st. this boy is a manipulative liar. more

Resolved Question: I have custody of my pregnant 14 y/o niece. Can I force an abortion or adoption.?

I am not for abortion or adoption but she is not emotionally stable enough to consider raising a child. She has a lot of mental problems and I would fear for the child if she keeps it. I just got custody of her 5 weeks ago, so she came to me already pregnant. I live in Idaho and need a bit of legal advice here.Maybe I didn't make myself perfectly clear here. She is ADHD and bipolar with severe anger issues. I am trying to help my niece not hurt her, but now there is going to be an innocent child that WILL be harmed if she has the right to raise it. As for talking rationally with her about adoption or abortion, she mentally is at about a 5th grade compehension level. more

Voting Question: my dog's paw is hurt, can you help?

we adopted a three-and-possibly-four-as-of-this-month-year-old australian shepard something (possibly american eskimo) mix from an Idaho adoption agency in about the middle of August this year. she is a beloved addition to the family. I am concerned now because she started (I believe the morining of november 16th this year, after going into the yard to chase something, running across the trampoline and jumping onto stored dirt bound to the fence by some wood. splinters and nails do not seem to be the problem after several thorough examinations of the paw concerned. when feeling the paw, she yelped and tried, ultimately succesfully, to escape. she had to be restrained, and is ordinarily very nice and harmless but did try to nip her way out of it, but that only got her muzzle restrained. last sunday, the day before, (11/15, i think) she found and killed, possibly by accident, killerd a gerbil in a closet.) limping by only using her back paws and her front left paw and although she is seemingly happy walk-hopping along as a tripod, she is limping and acting hurt none the less. we will take her to the vet this afternoon if she has not stopped by then, but the vet ill probably say to do what we have been doing (bandaged the paw and let her go) and it will go away, but they have done an expensive X-ray just to be sure. in an attempt to aviod the expense, I am asking all of you for your help and advice. Thank you. more

Resolved Question: a adoption question it will get sticky but please help in the best possiable way?

First i want to thank my friend for letting me borrow her account! okay so here is the sticky part i was taken by my grandparents and ive been with them for over 10 years and they are getting really old! like really. they are pressureing me and hurting me and i cant take it i dont really want to hurt them i am 16 my boyfriends mother has offered to adopted me( dont worrk different names ect he dont know her really) but she is disabled in walking she works and has a good income and a house with six bedrooms and she lives alone. here it comes sthe really bad part. i am a child of oregon and we live in idaho. i want to know every thing there is we though emancipation but you have to be married and have adult consent and my grandparents wont do either. so i need help my grandparents need a life with out me i take their time, and money and tempers are constently high and things go flying. i think if i back off and go somewhere else they will have the money for a good retirement and to fight my grandfathers cancer off. i am looking for a job and i wish there was one around mccall area that had horses or animals involved but i havent found one yet. but please help. i can take careof my self i am graduating this year from school and plan to go to college next year on schoolarships to Uof I please help! more

Resolved Question: this story really happened give your thoughts?

I learned about Cassie's birth through a phone call -- the same way I heard about her death, 17 years later. On a wintry Saturday morning in 1982, we got a call from the priest who had been helping us find a baby to adopt. A young woman who was unready to be a parent had given birth to a six-pound infant one hour earlier. "Be in Boise on Monday morning to pick up your daughter," the priest told us. My husband, Curtis, and I were ecstatic. During the five-hour ride back from Boise to our home in Soda Springs, Idaho, we took turns driving so we could each hold our tiny, perfect daughter. Just outside of town, we pulled over and dressed Cassie in a brand-new frilly pink-and-white dress, then took her to meet her grandparents. Cassie brought us luck. To my amazement, I was finally able to get pregnant, and our daughter Lindsey was born only 18 months after Cassie's adoption. Then came two more girls: Michaela and Jordan. Cassie was a bright, beautiful, caring child. She won a science-fair prize in sixth grade and loved music, learning to play the violin, clarinet and piano. The Christmas she was in the second grade, she cried when she heard that some children didn't get presents, and she came up with the idea that she and her sisters would give one of their gifts to charity, or, as she called it, the "angel tree." It's a tradition we still follow every year. Sadly, my marriage to Curtis came to an end when Cassie was 13, but we were determined to put our daughters' welfare and happiness ahead of everything else. I took a job with Boise State University in Boise and moved to nearby Nampa, some 350 miles away from Soda Springs. Curtis and I worked it out so that the older two girls would live with me during the school year and with their dad in Soda Springs during the summer. Cassie and Justin When Cassie was 14, she asked to stay on in Soda Springs to start high school there. I wasn't happy about this, but I knew Curtis was a loving, responsible father, and I finally agreed. That decision will always haunt me. If I had insisted she return to Nampa, Cassie might be alive today. That summer, she had met Justin Neuendorf -- the real reason, I later found out, that she wanted to stay in Soda Springs. Cassie and Justin's first big date was to the school's homecoming dance that fall. Though Justin was just shy of 17, three and a half years older than Cassie, warning bells didn't go off in my head. He had been an altar boy at our family church, St. Mary's. According to Curtis, Cassie and Justin at first seemed to socialize as part of a group. Everything seemed pretty normal. But several months into the school year, Cassie began to change. Her grades plummeted from A's and B's to D's and F's. She was no longer upbeat. And she was literally shrinking in size. Within six months, my five-foot seven-inch daughter went from 135 pounds to 100. I feared she was getting into drugs and pressured her to be tested. The results were negative. Worried it was cancer or some other dreadful disease, we had her go in for a complete physical -- no clues there either. Whenever Curtis or I asked what was wrong, we got the same answer: "Why can't you just leave me alone? Nothing's wrong." Cassie and Justin had been going out for about a year when we noticed bruises on her face, arms, legs and hands. Cassie was very active and loved volleyball, basketball and skiing, so it was easy for her to explain the bruises. We never suspected abuse until the spring of 1998, when one of Cassie's friends told Curtis that Justin had beaten her badly. Not believing Cassie's denials, Curtis found a letter that spelled it all out. "I'm sorry for almost killing you," Justin had written her. "I was on crank for the last week, stoned off my mind, and drunk ... and you know as well as anyone you don't try to stop me from doing something when I am like that. I was choking you because you were being so loud and I had to shut you up so I could just talk to you about me and you going back out together but when you wouldn't be quiet it made me go insane." I immediately tried to put an end to the relationship, but Cassie denied the abuse and refused to discuss the letter. It seemed so unreal: How could my strong, smart, compassionate girl allow a boy to hit her and then cover it up? Her father wouldn't let Cassie meet Justin anymore, but she started sneaking off with him after school or after her part-time waitressing job. I tried to get through to Cassie so many times. We were on the phone nearly every day, and at this point I was making the 700-mile round-trip to Soda Springs every weekend and at least once during the week. It was frustrating not to live in the same town while this family crisis got worse and worse. I just couldn't stop worrying about Cassie. The Violence Gets Worse During one emotional talk, I finally got Cassie to admit that Justin had struck her. As I hugged her, she cried and told me what I would hear at least 20 times more: " more

Resolved Question: What is the lesson/big idea of Walk Two Moons? (Book summary included)?

Walk Two Moons is about a thirteen year old girl named Salamanca (Sal) Hiddle. The story follows Sal on a road trip with her grandparents. They are driving from Ohio to Idaho to reach the place Sal’s mother died just in time for her mother’s birthday. Along the trip they stop at landmarks that her mother sent her postcards from such as the Badlands, the Black Hills, and Old Faithful. During the trip Sal starts to tell the story of her best friend, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother also unexpectedly left. She talks about a young man who kept showing up around Phoebe’s house and strange notes left by Phoebe’s door. You learn about Phoebe’s life after her mother left and what it was like moving from their farm at Bybanks, Kentucky, to Euclid, Ohio to live near Margaret Cadaver who her father befriended after her mother’s death. You follow her as she tries to help Phoebe find out what happened to her missing mother. Phoebes dad keeps saying her mother left Phoebe refuses to believe that and finds out the strange man was her mother's son from when she was young that she gave up for adoption and that she left just to get to know him and figure out what to do. PLEASEE! HELPP! what is the lesson/big idea? more

Resolved Question: guardianship make adoption easier?

We are thinking of doing guardianship instead of adopting right away. My friend wants to adopt her baby to us in Feb. I live in Idaho we would like Permanent guardianship the woman is native American so we will and are complying with ICWA. The mothers other children are also guardian by others. She has had no problem with the tribe interfering in all three other children.. would this be alot easier in the long run and cheaper? What do I need to do to get guardianship she has already gotten the papers from the tribe..Do I need a homestudy? Can I have the baby than do the court? Any answers will help thanks so much more

Resolved Question: What do you think about moving states with a 6 month old baby?

My 19 year old brother is going to be a father in October. At the beginning of his girlfriend's pregnancy, she threatened to give the baby up for adoption even though we all wanted little Ava (my neice) in our family. Thankfully she changed her mind but because my brother was convinced that he could never hold his little girl, he put off his military plans. Since then, he has lost his job and is living with our parents. He plans on moving in with his girlfriend. His gf doesn't want him joining the military so he has come up with a different plan. He plans on staying at her parent's house and when Ava is 6 months, he wants to move to Idaho (in Cali right now), get a job and two months later he'll fly out his gf and baby. He plans on living in an apartment with them and his bestfriend. His plan seems a bit crazy to me but I understand him not wanting to go army, he'd miss alot of his daughter's milestones. The cost of living is cheaper than it is in California but uprooting a six month old does not sound easy, especially since they're first time parents and neither of them have family near idaho. Anywhoo, what are your opinions on moving that far with a baby? more

Voting Question: Is there anyway to get kids that i almost adopted back? They were illegally tooken away. ?

Okay, I had a boy named brandon and a girl named nicole. They were my sisters kids and they were up for adoption. I tried to adopt them. Ok so for the first couple years it went good. Then another family trys to adopt them and says they will pay money. So they illegally took them away from me. So i got them too ken away. I cried for days on end. But a year and a half later i accepted and thought maybe it's for the best. Now we still have contact but something disturbing happened when i was talking to them one day. The guy who adopted them told me how the son was a little brat because he didn't take the trash out before he helped an 85 year old man shovel his driveway. This little boy is Only 8 years old. Also how he wishes someone punched teeth out. & how he made him sit there for 2 days straight not say a word and look at fake food. Also his little sister says he gets locked in a closet. Now with his sister who is 7 had to sit on a toilet for 2 hours because she peed her pants. and she was 4 at the time. I really love these kids i took parenting classes i did everything i could for them. these people are just in for the money. Is there anyway i can get them back? Please, there must me someway. There must be some law. I live in MIchigan and they now live in Idaho. more

Resolved Question: Is being a homeless, drug addicted prostitute in America less tragic?

than being a homeless, drug addicted prostitute in another country? Is it easier to be homeless, drug addicted, selling your body for food, drugs, shelter in America? Is it somehow less tragic to end up a homeless, poor, drug addicted, prostitute in America? Is it because America's streets are paved, while many other countries have dirt roads? Is it less cold in the winter in Minnesota, New York, Illinois, Washington, Idaho than it is in China, Russia, India, Vietnam, Korea, Guatemala, Mexico, S. Africa? Is poverty "better" in America than it is in other countries? I'm just wondering since this is a main argument in support of IA. Though I'm not opposed to all IA, the US Govt's issues Adoption Alerts to caution American citizens about adopting from certain countries b/c of fraud, trafficking, etc. http://adoption.state.gov/news/notices.html So please enlighten me, is it because poverty is worse in other countries that we should adopt internationally rather than adopting from foster care in spite of the stats on children who age out of foster care? "In a study of children who had “aged out” of foster care, researchers found that within 12 to 18 months of turning 18 & leaving foster care, 27% of males & 10% of females were incarcerated, 50% were unemployed, 37% had not finished high school, 33% received public assistance, & 19% of females had given birth to children." http://www.achildswaiting.com/adoptive_p...Thanks everyone for your input. RB. I appreciate your points & agree:stats are worse:the poverty more desperate:the opportunities fewer. LT & ABR1: Thanks for adding your voices. IT MATTERS GREATLY to hear what you have to say! MamaKate: Thanks for sharing your POV. I totally agree! IndianVision: Grateful 2/u for joining in! You & other IA'ees especially have an important voice in the discussion! Glad you're here! Angela:Y assume I don't do research? I've traveled to other countries too. What is the point of asking Qs? These Qs & the dialogue created-whether or not we agree-lead to research & to sharing our knowledge & experience. Take 1 child out & how many 100's of 1,000's are left behind? It solves nothing for those kids. Unhealthy kids won't likely be adopted. $30-$50k would take care of kids in an orphanage 4/perhaps a year? In SOME IA there is "baby buying" or child trafficking per the US Govt. Tho certainly not ALL IA. http://adoption.state.gov/news/notices.htmlETA:IV - As MK wrote, "true charity is not supposed to come with tangible benefits to the "donor"..."what can I do to help in the most effective and beneficial way FOR THE CHILD." It's somewhat disingenuous to argue that "I'm only saving a child in terrible poverty" yet do nothing but take 1 child home b/c really, all the PAP wanted to do in the 1st place was adopt a child. (this does not apply to all IAP's, incl. RB) When really some PAP desperately want to adopt a baby, any baby, especially one that doesn't come with ties to their birth families. I've heard those actual words come out of PAP's/AP's mouths. This does not negate YOUR experience. This does not mean there should be no IA from any country. Many AP's do adopt for the right reasons. I'm saying be honest and I'm saying that no life has less value. And while LT may have been an adult @ 18, as a female, she could no more protect herself from rape or assault by a grown man or group of men on the str. than a young girl can. more

Resolved Question: Is being a homeless, drug addicted prostitute in America less tragic?

Resolved Question: how does the adoption process go?

like, do you just sign a few papers?or do you have to pay a whole lotta money? P.S. if its any different in Idaho, please tell me that too. :)) lil book nerdo more

Resolved Question: Should i even think about adoption?

I don't know where to go to anymore. my family is with this mentality that makes me feel so upset. well i am 15 weeks pregnant (going by the baby's gestational age since im irregular) and well i have been thinking this thoroughly and well i don't know if i can do it being a single mom. i am scared and want the best for my child, no matter even if i hate his/her dad. i am not working and my family wants me to keep the baby. i don't have a choice, literally. i practically depend on them still, being 19. it's hard to find a job here in idaho. well, they say if i was okay with having unprotected sex then i should be responsible for the consequences. i understand that, but isn't it even worse to keep the child when i cant really give no future to the baby yet? i mean, i only have a GED. i only went to job corps. no college, nothing. i really feel that this baby should deserve better, better than i ever got but it makes me sad also that i would even think about giving the baby away. i am so confused and i really love this baby. i don't know what to do. my family says that they will never talk to me if i do that. but what should i do? i am so scared and no one even understands or can even listen to me. damn!! more

Resolved Question: how to find my brother and 2 sisters.

I'm 19 and trying to find my only brother and my 2 sisters that my mom put up for adoption. My mom has told me that they were born in Emmett, Idaho, and my one sister is 20 the other is 21 and my brother is 22 and that the last she heard they lived in the Washington area. I don't have the money to search for them, does anyone know a site that is free that will help me out. more

Resolved Question: foster care adoption basics?

My husband and I are planning to adopt through the foster care system. We are a military family currently in Washington state, but he is a texan and I am a north dakotan. Do we have to adopt from Washington, or can we adopt from one of our home states? What about a neighbor state of Washington? (Idaho, Oregon) Thanks for any help you can give! more

Resolved Question: Has anyone gone through the adoption process in Idaho?

My wife and i are looking to adopt. Because it will be our first child preferablly and infant. I understand that therre are many children in need out there and our hope is to love and care for as many as we can honestly. However for our first we would prefer an infant so that we can have as much of the actual experience as possible. After many years of trying to concieve we have decided to open our home up to a child in need of love and would appreciate any help we could get. Is there a better organization than Idaho Youth Ranch. They seem to be the only public agency in the area. We are looking for adoption right now but would consider foster care later. Thank you for any help. more

Resolved Question: What do you think of adoptive parents who refuse to return a child during the waiting period...???

Before the adoption is finalized? Or when they found out within a week (or a few weeks) that the adoption is being contested by one of the child's parent, but refuse to return the child, even when ordered by a judge to do so? The most common excuse for not abiding by a judges order is that the adoption was done between one state & another. The child was born & relinquished in Idaho, but live in Utah & refuse the Idaho judges orders. The adopters hire attorneys, withhold the child, defy judges orders & delay delay delay. One case in particular went on for a couple of years before the child was finally returned to her biological parents. All the while, the adopters claiming their concern for 'the best interest of the child', & making a GRAND spectacle of the child's return to her parents in hysterics.ETA: I'm speaking of newborn adoptions only. When the adoptive parents pick up a newborn child and within a week or a few weeks, the mother changes her mind, or the father finds out & never agreed to the adoption.dblblair: are you saying it's OK for the adoptive parents to keep the child even when it violates a judges order? it's 'in the best interest of the child' just because the adoptive parents refuse to return him/her to her biological parents? don't the parents have any rights? more

Resolved Question: what are the laws in Idaho for revoking an adoption?

Resolved Question: Can you help me find my father's ancestry. Any suggestions.?

He was adopted when he was a baby, from a family of 12 children; his mother was a native american; they lived in what was then the Oklahoma Territory, but later became a part of Arkansas; the family name was Snow. It was around 1907 or so I believe. He was adopted by a family named Bennett, in Boise Idaho who were 7th day Adventists. My father was born with a bad heart and they didn't think he would live. But he lived until 1949, and passed away when I was 7 years old. I would like to be able to find his adoption records, but don't know where to look. All the principals are now dead. more

Resolved Question: Do you have a young female Siberian Husky for adoption in Idaho, Washington or Oregon state area?

I know that there are several rescues in these areas. Thought that if I went on line I could get even more options. I'm willing to travel to pick up the dog and bring it to it's new home. Only serious responses, please. more

Resolved Question: whacha think?

ok well I am 14 and I am having a baby in 5 mnts the boy of the father lives were I used to back in Idaho I am in Arizona right now were giving the baby up for adoption but not to anyone his grandma and aunt in Idaho right in town do you think it is too much to ask of the grandma and aunt if I stay there with the baby as in live I believe they will go for it they really like me I am glad I am doing this they say it's going to be the light of their lives and are very excited and ye know me and him can't do it. How do I approch my mom with this who I live with now how do I tell her I am giving it to his grandma and aunt and I am going to live up there when she wants me here and the baby I know the other way is much better how should I tell her? more

Resolved Question: it's great I think...?

I am 14 and pregnant my family and I do not believe in abortion I moved to arizona and the father lives back in Idaho I've decided to give the baby up for adoption, but not to anyone to his grandma and aunt they said it would be the light of their lives so I will give that to them I am going to stay with the baby back in Idaho with his grandma and aunt that way both of us are fully in the child's life and abortion did not happen. I think this is great...or is it? I know I shoudl have never made the mistake in the first place at this age but what's done is done, we both learned from it and it is being handled in a postive way. more

Resolved Question: what should I do?

I am 14 and having a baby-don't comment on that please. Look at me as a normal human being. My boyfriend lives all the way up in Idaho I am so craziyl in love with him I sit at home and cry my eyes out thinking about him and just wait for the next time we talk. Abortions are wrong, I truelly want to be with this boy I think adoption would be best. I know I'll never see him again but it's not about me anymore maybe giving it up to someone who cannot have children and just moving with my life down in arizona, it's been 3 mnts we've been apart if I were to have the baby he owuld be down for the summer maybe I should just let it all go go back to a regular school meet some friends and maybe find a nice guy that won't get me pregnant in the first place-I'm thinking adoption. more

Resolved Question: Am I asking too much?

alright I just need a positive supportive answer not hmm this that I am 14 I am keeping my baby my family and I strongly do not believe in abortions and adoption I have considered but my family insists it has to stay in the family I had to move to Arizona to have the baby b/c my mom is the only person who can handle this money, just the whole overall situation of having a baby. The boy 16 is in Idaho I only ask of him half of his pay check, to call everynight, to be here may 9th for the birth of our baby, and the summer to spend time with the new born his first child. Is this asking too much phone call everynight or everyother night so we stay in touch for the baby and the whole situation I believe what I ask of him only makes this extremely difficult situation more manageable, even a bit less stressful, do I not diserve this from him am I asking too much? more

Resolved Question: Where is...?

We are looking for a horse that is trained. We got some suggestions from a friend about the Bureau of Land Management Mustang Adoption Program in Idaho or Oregon. I was wondering if any one new a website about this, or any other information about this. more

Resolved Question: Who has ever...?

...given up a child for adoption? What were your resons behind doing it? Was it a hard or easy choice to make, or were you even given a choice? Do you regret your decision now? Why or why not? Were you able to keep in contact with that child over the years? Was this by your own doing? If you did stay in contact, does the child know it is adopted, that you are it's biological parent, and do you think the child is happy where they are? I'm only asking this question to see how many other people out there have been through an adoption procedure like I have. I gave my oldest daughter up for adoption almost 15 years ago...we have always, and still do, talk to eachother, and she knows everything there is to know about it. She says she is happy with the life I gave her. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do, but I'm glad I did it. It was the best thing for her at the time. She's coming out to my house in San Diego, from Idaho, for 2 weeks this summer. I'd like to hear others' stories.I found out I was pregnant with her on my 16th birthday...and my parents had kicked me out. I had no where to go and I was afraid that if I didn't give her away to someone, CPS might take her from me for not being able to properly care for her. No food, job, place to live, way to wash her clothes...I loved her so much, that I had to send her to a better home. The people who took her were an older couple who used to help me out after my folks kicked me out. I knew she couldn't be in a better place once they agreed to take her. After that, I went back to school. I got my GED, and a good job. Now I have a place of my own, and she can't wait to visit. I don't have ANY regrets. more

Resolved Question: are there adoption agencies that may the birthmother? if so, how much? is there an agency in north idaho?

are there any profitable adoption agencies (for the birthmother) in or around coeur d'alene, idaho? more

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