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When You Take Away the Kids, You Take Away the Future

Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts

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Iqwai Indian Child Welfare Act - Is CPS a Good Place to Foster?

In 2015, the Breckines decided that they wanted to adopt. Their first foster placement did not go well and after five months, they actually asked CPS to take the child back. A year into them fostering the Cherokee and Navajo child, his parents' rights were terminated. About a month later, Navajo Nation found a Navajo home that wanted to adopt the baby. The same week that the Breckine's filed this lawsuit in federal court claiming that Iqwa violated their constitutional rights because it wouldn't let them adopt ALM.

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