Voice for Adoption's Response to Notice of Proposed Rule-making by Health and Human Services
What is the Health and Human Services (HHS) Proposed Rule?
HHS seeks to stop requiring grantees to follow non-discriminaiton rules in order to receive funding
This new proposed rule would allow for federally funded agencies to discriminate on the following
Religion
Sexual oriantation
Marital status
and more...
Response from Voice for Adoption
This is not the best interest of our nations children in foster care
This will hinder the nation from caring for the more than 687,000 children who will spend part of their lives in foster care this year
We have roughly 430,000 children in foster care at a given time, during a time with so many are waiting for a loving family we need every viable parent we can get
Prolonging a childs stay in foster care by allowing such discriminations can lead to negitve outcomes for that child in the long run
Foster care is suppsoed to be a "short term haven"... it should not be a place where kids spend their whole childhood in
