Sentence examples for state adoption from inspiring English sources
In the coming months, Mr. Gonidakis said, his organization plans to focus its lobbying on the easing of state adoption rules and an increase in tax breaks for adoptive parents.
Ms. Diaz's income was reduced to the $950 monthly state adoption subsidy that she receives for Sabrina.
Though no documents back up her theory, she has a statement signed by Polly Hunt, a now-deceased employee of the state adoption agency.
This could change "if there was a rational approach to prophylactics", including state adoption of harm reduction programmes at least in a few test regions, he said.
Even with a financial incentive from the Department of Education to encourage state adoption of the standards, some states are apt to drag their feet or balk altogether at participating.
The family existed in a system in which state adoption law allowed the couple to receive $30,000 in annual stipends for doing little more than writing a letter certifying that their adopted children were still in their home.
And some states have taken up legislation that would allow taxpayer-funded contractors that oversee state adoptions to refuse to let gay or lesbian individuals adopt children if it conflicts with the organization's religious beliefs.
A19 Gays' Alternatives to Adoption Gay rights advocates in Florida are seeking alternatives to state adoptions, including foster parenting, artificial insemination, private adoptions in other states and in some cases illegal private adoptions.
This state-by-state adoption has not moved at an even pace, but has picked up significantly over the past two years.
She added that discrimination still remains and that in some conservative states, adoption agencies that serve gay families function like an "underground railroad".
The agency can still attach financial incentives to encourage state-by-state adoption of specific educational programs under separate legislation, as it did with Race to the Top, a program that awards grants to states that enact federally recommended educational reforms.
