Vol. 43, Issue 2, 2015

Introductions & Dedications
Tenth Annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law: We are not all the same: Meeting Children’s Individual Needs through Law, Policy, and Practice Reform
Capital University Law Review
A dedication to the Tenth Annual Wells Conference
Children & Family
Re-examining and Re-defining Permanency from a Youth’s Perspective
Randi Mandelbaum
Child welfare and judicial systems, while well-intentioned, are failing our older foster children—defined as children twelve years of age and older.
Children & Family
Are you still my Family? Post-Adoption Sibling Visitation
Dawn J. Post, Esq.Sarah McCarthy, Esq.Roger Sherman, Ph.D.Servet Bayimli
In the past two decades, there has been increased recognition of sibling relationships as crucial, particularly for children who are removed from their birth parents.
Children & Family
Formalities for Informal Adoptions
Jeffrey A. Parness
Until recently in the United States, legal parentage, prompting both childcare opportunities and child support obligations, chiefly arose within opposite sex marriages and from state-supervised formal adoptions.
Children & Family
If “Past is Prologue”: Toward the Development of a New “Freedom Suit” for the Remediation of Foster Care Disproportionalities Among African-American Children
Gloria Ann Whittico
The disproportionate representation of children of color in child welfare and foster care today did not happen overnight.