{"product_id":"2940156892358","title":"CARANGELO v. CONNECTICUT","description":"\"Carangelo v. Connecticut\" was not \"won.\" So why publish a book about a class action that was not \"won\"? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is offered as an information guide and as a supplement t \"Chosen Children 2016.\" Adoption reform activists, attorneys, law students and others have asked me for case cites, statistics, historical references, to help support legislative bill proposals, legal pleadings, books and articles. This book explains how the federal Child Abuse and Prevention Act (CAPTA), and the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), intended to help children and families, have instead terrorized and torn families apart from forced adoptions while rewarding kidnappers -- government protected child stealing. Also included are the pleadings which detail my story and that of others \"similarly situated,\" federal and state laws we challenged, rulings filed in our case, previous case cites, to define and chronicle decades of \"successful\" and \"failed\" efforts in \"open records\" and \"anti-adoption\" opposition to government protected (\"legalized\") child stealing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMost people understand the necessity for \"open records\" legislation and lawsuits, if not the extent of the different approaches. Groups such as \"Bastard Nation\" and \"Access Connecticut\" lobby state legislators for \"unrestricted\" adult adoptee access to their original birth certificate, while lobby groups end up negotiating \"compromise\" legislation that would, for instance, allow one family member to \"veto\" full disclosure (of identities) to the other party. Either approach limits disclosure to \"adults,\" leaving half the United States population with an adoption or relinquishment in their immediate family subject to detrimental secrecy laws for 18, 21 or more years. \"Nothing awful\" has happened in Kansas where adoptees' birth records have always been \"open.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anti-adoption\" activism, however, whether opposed or embraced, means different things to different people. The term \"anti-adoption,\" when addressing the \"core issue\" of the Constitutionality of adoption itself, implies \"abolishing\" adoption in favor of more humane forms of child custody -- such as individualized child guardianship that already exists in law, or new expressions of child welfare that do not treat the child as property without rights. This book sorts out the rhetoric and exposes what the Courts have covered up, in this case and others. You have a right to know. \u003cbr\u003e136 printed pages, 25 photos, Indexed.","brand":"Access Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47083617911024,"sku":"2940156892358","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940156892358_p0.jpg?v=1764089921","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940156892358","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}