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DETROIT — A new Michigan law aims to ensure that foster youth in the state receive an education that builds toward a high school diploma. The law, signed Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, comes ...
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The assessment is based on an international child rights convention, but the United States is the only U.N. member not to have adopted the treaty. Michigan laws on child marriage, corporal ...
"Fostering" was used in conjunction with Catholic Social Services of Michigan in order to circumvent state-licensing issues and arrangeded for youth to live in state-licensed foster homes. Many of these new foster homes offered alternatives to traditional "foster parents" by accepting young homosexuals, the "streetwise" and sexually active.
Foster youth are more likely to have substance abuse issues, become parents soon after aging out of care, or end up incarcerated. One study reports that 56% of youth used "street drugs" while in foster care and 33% of youth report experiencing drug or alcohol problems since leaving care. [7]
Equality Michigan is the state's most prominent LGBT advocacy group.. Sexual acts between persons of the same sex are legal in Michigan. They had been criminalized until the state's sodomy laws, which applied to both homosexuals and heterosexuals, were invalidated in 2003 by the United States Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v.
Submitted opinion column: Rep. Julie A. Casimiro represents District 31. Darlene Allen is the CEO and executive director of Adoption Rhode Island.
The Michigan Court of Appeals said the state's Child Protection Law does not cover the specific sex abuse allegations made against a mother. Michigan Court of Appeals: Judge, MDHHS improperly ...