Hearing on Babies Without Homes: Babies Abandoned at Birth : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 28, 1992, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 113 pages |
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Page 2 - Federal educational funds in order to protect the rights and the wellbeing of children. These include protections against racial and gender discrimination, the requirement that children with disabilities be provided a free and appropriate education in the least restrictive environment, prohibitions against psychological testing without parental consent, and requirements that all student records be available for review by parents. This hearing marks the beginning of the process to establish another...
Page 34 - The significance of parental absences depends, then, upon their duration, frequency, and the developmental period during which they occur. The younger the child, the shorter is the interval before a leave-taking will be experienced as a permanent loss accompanied by feelings of helplessness and profound deprivation. Since a child's sense of time is directly related to his capacity to cope with breaches in continuity, it becomes a factor in determining if, when, and with what urgency the law should...
Page 33 - These considerations carry no weight with the children who are emotionally unaware of the events leading to their births. What registers in their minds are the day-to-day interchanges with the adults who take care of them and who, on the strength of these, become the parent figures to whom they are attached.
Page 34 - ... child to feel wanted. We can predict that the adult most likely suited for this role is the one, if there be one, with whom the child has already had and continues to have an affectionate bond rather than one of otherwise equal potential who is not yet in a primary relationship with the child. Further, we can predict that the younger the child and the more extended the period of uncertainty or separation, the more detrimental it will be to the child's well-being and the more urgent it becomes,...
Page 34 - Only a child who has at least one person whom he can love, and who also feels loved, valued, and wanted by that person, will develop a healthy self-esteem.
Page 82 - ... although the process can theoretically take place in 18 months, in reality it usually takes three years. The infants become toddlers or older, and the prospective adoptive parents become frustrated with the prolonged process. In addition, adoptive parents are fearful of the long-term effects of drug exposure and the possible need for expensive medical, educational, and psychological care. Despite these obstacles, Joe Kroll, Executive Director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children,...
Page 70 - BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON SELECT EDUCATION, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1977 Mr.
Page 11 - Water District, I want to thank the Subcommittee for the opportunity to present our priorities for Fiscal Year 2006.
Page 34 - Unlike adults, who have learned to anticipate the future and thus to manage delay, children have a built-in time sense based on the urgency of their instinctual and emotional needs.
Page 8 - ... DLA and DPSC that the 3.6 million case level should not include any of the special appropriations or purchases related to Operation Desert Storm/Shield, and that the 3.6 million case level not assume or include any transfer of inventory or stores to and from DLA and DPSC.