RE: Termination of parent rights

[Sandra Slappey <slappeys@xxxxxxxxx>]

You might want to search the database of the National Adoption Information
Clearinghouse (NAIC) at www.calib.com/naic.  If you go into the
publications, I know there is one called "Adoption Statistics - A Brief
Overview of the Data" that offers a variety of sources for adoption-related
statistics.  Good luck!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Munsch, Joyce [SMTP:JMunsch@cohs2.hs.ttu.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, October 06, 2000 6:12 PM
> To:	Child Maltreatment Researchers
> Subject:	Termination of parent rights
> 
> 
> I would like to find some statistics on the number of cases in which
> parental rights are terminated each year.  I understand that there was a
> Federal legislative change in recent years that moved from mandating
> reunification of families at all cost to making it easier for parental
> rights to be terminated after a specific period of time (one year,
> perhaps?)
> if reunification did not seem achievable.
> 
> Joyce Munsch
> Texas Tech University
> Lubbock, TX  79409