
Adoption and Safe Families Act
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Oct 6, 2026
Dividends, Dominance, Decisions
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42:13Maureen SteeleGUEST
... that we're talking about right now.
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42:15Maureen SteeleGUEST
Um, and it was Hillary Clinton, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, that really brought all of this into, uh, into what it is, into this essentially a cottage industry, uh, in our country, uh, s- taking children, stealing children, putting them in foster homes, um, and, and that's where they do what they will with these children.
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42:33Maureen SteeleGUEST
Um, and so it's, it's a very, a, a very difficult thing to fight.
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42:37Maureen SteeleGUEST
Uh, American Made i- is doing our best, uh, s- with, we, we partner a lot with the Pacific Justice Institute to fight this in court, and what you find is even with these amazing lawsuits, these incredibly brilliant lawyers, um, you try to go up against the system, and you have judges that simply won't allow these cases in.
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43:00Maureen SteeleGUEST
They protect these corrupt systems.
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43:02Maureen SteeleGUEST
And, um, so it's very difficult, and that's what we're working towards, um, because all the laws are there They're, they're there.
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43:09Maureen SteeleGUEST
In fact, in, um, 2019, um, you know, President Trump's Family First Act, that, that should have trumped, pardon the pun, should have trumped, you know, the Adoption and Safe Families Act.
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43:20Maureen SteeleGUEST
They're still operating with the Adoption and Safe Families Act, just completely ignoring, uh, Trump's, you know, Family First Act, saying you don't take kids from a home un- unless it's a last resort.
Restoring Parental Rights, with Sarah Katz and April Lee
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1:42Sarah KatzGUEST
Michael, in the context of the family policing system, rights get terminated.
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1:49Sarah KatzGUEST
as a result of a federal law called the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which dates back to 1997.
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1:55Sarah KatzGUEST
And I know has been discussed before on this show, right? So among the many things that AASFA does is it creates a timeline for children that are placed in the foster system.
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2:09Sarah KatzGUEST
When a child is separated from their family
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4:39Sarah KatzGUEST
Yeah, I mean, the story that the law tells is that this is, you know, that reunification is the goal for the vast majority of children that enter the foster system.
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4:49Sarah KatzGUEST
That is truly a myth.
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4:51Sarah KatzGUEST
One of the things that the Adoption and Safe Families Act did is create a mandate for what's called, again, in the law's terminology, concurrent planning.
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5:01Sarah KatzGUEST
So that means for