Text of: 431-R103

The Committee recommends concurrence as amended as follows:

Amend the first paragraph to read:

Every child is a child of God and deserves to grow up in a safe, healthy, and loving family environment. However For a variety of reasons, including unwanted pregnancy, family violence, addictions, or poverty, children are given up for placed for adoption in with hope of for a better future.

Remove the following phrase in the first two sentences of the fourth paragraph: "in the United States"

Correct the sixth paragraph as follows:

Promote alternatives to adoption conditions which would make adoption unnecessary by supporting programs which will improve the living conditions of children in their families, their communities and their countries of origin.

Correct "polices" in paragraph 9 to read "policies."

 

 

 

 

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