Jacob OglesJanuary 29, 2019
4min532
He wants a 12-month limit before kids removed from families return to permanent home.
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Jacob OglesJanuary 29, 2019
Staff ReportsNovember 26, 2018
7min660
Senate President Bill Galvano is dubious about the greyhound industry’s chances for compensation now that its livelihood has been taken away by voters. A constitutional amendment aimed at ending live dog racing in Florida won at the ballot box earlier this month with 69 percent of the vote. Amendments need no less than 60 percent approval […]
Staff ReportsDecember 28, 2017
3min187
As 2017 winds down, 14 foster children in the Tampa Bay area are coming home for the holidays, adopted into 11 new families this week. WFTS reports the homecomings were part of the Eckerd Connects adoption and foster program. “It’s been the best Christmas ever,” new mother Rosa Diaz told reporter Sean Daly. On Wednesday, […]
Michael MolineDecember 23, 2016
3min176
More than 3,000 at-risk children will spend the holidays with their birth or adoptive families after a push by the Florida Department of Children and Families. Agency staff worked with dependency judges and local groups to expedite the reunification of foster kids with their families or relatives, or to facilitate their adoption. “The heart of our […]
Ryan RayMarch 23, 2016
3min482
Gov. Rick Scott continued a flurry of post-Legislative Session activity Wednesday morning, signing nine bills passed during the 2016 lawmaking period into state law. The highest-profile bills meeting the governor’s approval include a requirement that Florida law enforcement test all rape kits within 120 days of their submission, the creation of a needle exchange pilot program in […]
Guest AuthorApril 10, 2015
4min386
Today in Florida, more than 600 children woke up without a permanent home to call their own. Sadly, these vulnerable children are revolving through a broken foster system that leaves far too many without hope for a happy life or successful future. Without the endless love of my adoptive parents, I could have been among […]
Phil AmmannApril 9, 2015
3min228
First comes love … then comes marriage … but with the Florida House, no baby carriage exists for same-sex couples. Bill Day sharpens his gaze on a bill, HB 7111, passed Thursday by the House, which allows private adoption agencies the option to turn away gay couples, either on religious or moral grounds. The measure was in response to a […]
Christine Jordan SextonMarch 19, 2015
2min226
One week after striking down a ban on gay adoption, a House panel on Thursday approved a proposed committee bill that would allow private child-placing agencies to refuse an adoption if the placement violates their religious or moral convictions. The proposed bill, PCB HHSC 15-03, was supported by the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops and […]
Julie DelegalNovember 4, 20138min140
George Will is right. Daniel Moynihan was right. And former Vice President Dan Quayle was at least half-right. The breakdown of the family unit in our society is a harbinger of national disaster. To say it out loud is not to blame the “victims,” i.e., the children who are born outside of marriage, or the women […]