Senator Tim Kaine-> Reforming our foster care system is a passion of Hillary's—and my wife Anne—

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Senator Tim Kaine ?@timkaine 25m25 minutes ago

Reforming our foster care system is a passion of Hillary's—and my wife Anne—so I've seen the work it takes up close.
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Hillary Clinton’s bipartisan effort in 1997 that gave thousands of adopted kids a new home.

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A bipartisan push for reform.

October 10, 2016 by Kajal Singh
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When Hillary was a law student at Yale, she volunteered at the local legal aid clinic under a young lawyer named Penn Rhodeen. It was there that she saw how important it was for children to have their own advocates in the legal system.

Together, Hillary and Penn represented a woman who had fostered a 2-year-old girl since birth and wanted to adopt her. At the time, Connecticut’s social services department had a strict policy against foster parents adopting, and so the child had been taken from her—even though she was the only mother the little girl had ever known.
Unfortunately, Hillary and Penn lost that case—and that experience inspired her to advocate for foster children within the legal system.

So when Hillary became first lady of the United States, she made sure improving our adoption and foster care system was a top priority. She convened child advocates and adoption experts in a series of White House meetings and those conversations led to a plan that was ultimately passed as the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. This groundbreaking piece of legislation improved our country’s foster system and helped thousands of children move from the foster care system to permanent, adoptive homes.............................

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