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Children & Family

Piercing the Class Veil: Protecting the Absent Class in 23(B)(2) _Olmstead_ Actions
October 24, 2023 EDT
Piercing the Class Veil: Protecting the Absent Class in 23(B)(2) Olmstead Actions
Caroline A. Lahrmann

This note discusses the adverse impact Olmstead actions have on persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It argues for these actions to be brought on an individual basis.

No Longer Safe: Ohio’s Dilution of Safe Harbor Protections for Trafficked Children
March 04, 2021 EDT
No Longer Safe: Ohio’s Dilution of Safe Harbor Protections for Trafficked Children
Sarah Kathryn Brown

This comment analyzes Ohio's Safe Harbor Law in the context of Alexis Martin's court case, examines recent changes to that law, and proposes additional amendments to that law.

A Child is a Child, Except Under Ohio Law: A Discretionary Review of Mandatory Bindovers
June 12, 2019 EDT
A Child is a Child, Except Under Ohio Law: A Discretionary Review of Mandatory Bindovers
Briana Morris

A discretionary look at Ohio's Mandatory Binder laws in the juvenile system.

The Americans with Disabilities Act: Legal and Practical Applications in Child Protection Proceedings
March 20, 2019 EDT
The Americans with Disabilities Act: Legal and Practical Applications in Child Protection Proceedings
Joshua B. Kay

Parents with disabilities, particularly those with intellectual disability and/or mental illness, are disproportionately represented in the child protection system.

January 30, 2019 EDT
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.

January 30, 2019 EDT
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.

Formalities for Informal Adoptions
January 30, 2019 EDT
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.

If "Past is Prologue": Toward the Development of a New "Freedom Suit" for the Remediation of Foster Care Disproportionalities Among African-American Children
January 30, 2019 EDT
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.

Outgoing Adoptions: What Should Happen when Things go Wrong
July 31, 2018 EDT
Outgoing Adoptions: What Should Happen when Things go Wrong
Cynthia R. Mabry-King

A proposal on what should be done when something goes wrong with the procedure for adopting children outside the United States.

The Umbilical Cord that Binds: Cross-Cultural Examination of the Politics of Achieving Effective Permanency and Adoption Policies in the United States and Brazil
July 31, 2018 EDT
The Umbilical Cord that Binds: Cross-Cultural Examination of the Politics of Achieving Effective Permanency and Adoption Policies in the United States and Brazil
Crystal L. Welch

An exploration where child welfare cases become unsafe to return the minor child to their parents.

July 31, 2018 EDT
Ministerial Versus Discretionary Acts or Omissions in Child Welfare Litigation
Andrea MacIverDaniel Pollack

A guidance on which state actions are discretionary and which are ministerial in public child welfare service law.

July 31, 2018 EDT
The Limit of Ohio’s Limited Guardianship Statute: Rights of Parents in Medical Decision-Making
Matthew D. Sturtz

A focus on the larger incongruence of Ohio's limited guardianship statute, and the case law construing it, to being to provide a way forward.