Bill Aims for Better Adoption Rules
Sunday, December 28th, 2014 -- 9:55 AM
Alarmed by reports of parents adopting children and then handing them off to virtual strangers met online, a study committee is considering reforms such as a new requirement that foreign adoptions be approved in Wisconsin.The proposal is being advanced by Rep. Joel Kleefisch (R-Oconomowoc), who has saidhe was particularly alarmed by a case in which a girl was adopted overseas, brought to Wisconsin and later passed off to a strange family without the state or legal system ever noting the girl's arrival in the state.
Had a watchful relation not sounded the alarm on the transfer and fought to gain custody of the girl, this case could have resulted in the girl vanishing without a legal trace, Kleefisch has said.
The proposal to require adoption and reporting here for international adoptions won praise from Kathy Markeland, associate director of the Wisconsin Association of Family and Children's Agencies.
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