Health.Zone Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the Health.Zone Content Network

2. South Carolina Heart Gallery - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Heart_Gallery

   The Heart Gallery began in New Mexico in 2001 and has since grown nationwide. [1] Established in 2005, the South Carolina Heart Gallery [2] is a collaborative program administered and supported by the Children’s Foster Care Review Board – Office of the Governor [3] and the South Carolina Department of Social Services. [4]

3. Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_Assistance_and...

   The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) was enacted by the US Government on June 17, 1980. Its purpose is to establish a program of adoption assistance; strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and improve the child welfare, social services, and aid to families with dependent ...

4. LGBT rights in South Carolina - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_South_Carolina

   LGBT rights in South Carolina. Legal since 2003 ( Lawrence v. Texas) Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of South Carolina may face some legal challenges not experienced by non- LGBT residents. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in South Carolina as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v.

5. What Are the Different Types of Adoption? - WebMD

   www.webmd.com/parenting/what-are-types-of-adoption

   There are different types of adoption, including the following. 1. Step-parent adoption. This type of adoption allows a step-parent to adopt their step-child. It helps legalize a lifelong parent ...

6. Nightlight Christian Adoptions - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightlight_Christian_Adoptions

   Nightlight Christian Adoptions is a national, non-profit, Hague-accredited, pro-life licensed adoption agency that counsels pregnant women and arranges adoptions. They have locations in ten U.S. states and arrange adoptions both domestically and internationally. The agency was founded in 1959. Nightlight was the first agency beginning in 1995 ...

7. DSS will not ask for funding related to enhancing kinship ...

   www.aol.com/dss-not-ask-funding-related...

   The investigation found 74% of children in foster care are Native American despite Native Americans making up 13% of the state’s population. And while foster families receive federal and state ...

8. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_the_United_States

   Adoption in the United States. In the United States, adoption is the process of creating a legal parent–child relationship between a child and a parent who was not automatically recognized as the child's parent at birth. Most adoptions in the US are adoptions by a step-parent. The second most common type is a foster care adoption.

9. Same-sex adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_adoption_in_the...

   In January 2019, the state of South Carolina applied for and was granted a waiver to let adoption agencies block same-sex couples from adopting or becoming foster parents. A Greenville couple has filed a lawsuit in this case and its outcome is pending. Supreme Court cases, like Baker v. State (1999) and Varnum v.