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Journal Article Incarcerated parents with children in foster care face many challenges staying connected. It can be difficult to access services, set up visits and reunite after release. Parents with sentences longer than 15 months are at risk of permanently losing their rights to their children. In this issue, parents in prison write about their efforts to stay connected to their children in foster care despite their incarceration and to reunify after release. (Author abstract)
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Journal Article This article examines legal issues involving intercountry adoption and the rights of birth fathers. An overview is provided, suggesting that an increasing number of intercountry adoptions are taking place to avoid delays and uncertainty because of the state of U.S. law on paternal rights of unwed fathers. Circumvention of U.S. law is examined, to the extent that the U.S. is committed to the protection of paternal rights over alternative legal choices, such as speedy adoption regardless of parental consent, and the measures that exist in international law to prevent effective nullification of…