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Adoption and Safe Families Act

Adoption and Safe Families Act

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Oct 6, 2026

Maureen SteeleGUEST
42:13
... that we're talking about right now.
Maureen SteeleGUEST
42:15
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.
Maureen SteeleGUEST
42:33
Um, and so it's, it's a very, a, a very difficult thing to fight.
Maureen SteeleGUEST
42:37
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.
Maureen SteeleGUEST
43:00
They protect these corrupt systems.
Maureen SteeleGUEST
43:02
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.
Maureen SteeleGUEST
43:09
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.
Maureen SteeleGUEST
43:20
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.
Sarah KatzGUEST
1:42
Michael, in the context of the family policing system, rights get terminated.
Sarah KatzGUEST
1:49
as a result of a federal law called the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which dates back to 1997.
Sarah KatzGUEST
1:55
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.
Sarah KatzGUEST
2:09
When a child is separated from their family
Sarah KatzGUEST
4:39
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.
Sarah KatzGUEST
4:49
That is truly a myth.
Sarah KatzGUEST
4:51
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.
Sarah KatzGUEST
5:01
So that means for

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