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The Tennessee Children's Home Society was chartered as a non-profit corporation in 1897. [2] In 1913, the Secretary of State granted the society a second charter. [2] The Society received community support from organizations that supported its mission of "the support, maintenance, care, and welfare of white children under seven years of age admitted to [its] custody."
Beulah George "Georgia" Tann (July 18, 1891 – September 15, 1950) was an American social worker and child trafficker who operated the Tennessee Children's Home Society, an unlicensed adoption agency in Memphis, Tennessee.
An unrelated organization with a similar name, the Tennessee Children's Home Society run by Georgia Tann, was involved in a baby-selling adoption scandal in the mid-twentieth century. [1] The current Children's Home shares no connection with that former organization other than the similarity of names.
Elizabeth and Gabriel Rutan-Ram said that a Tennessee bill allowed a state-funded agency to decline to help them in their adoption process. Jewish couple challenges Tennessee law after Christian ...
Camille Kelley (née McGee; October 13, 1879 – January 28, 1955) was an American juvenile court judge and author. She was investigated by the state of Tennessee for using her judgeship to aid Georgia Tann's ongoing adoption fraud operation conducted under the auspices of the Tennessee Children's Home Society and resigned shortly after this information became public.
A Jewish couple sued Tennessee in 2022 after a Christian adoption agency blocked them from state-mandated foster care training.
While the adoption of a minor in Tennessee requires extensive background checks, the consent of the birth parents and a formal home study by a licensed child-placing agency, attorney Jeff Stern of ...
Adoptee rights are the legal and social rights of adopted people relating to their adoption and identity. These rights frequently center on access to information which is kept sealed within closed adoptions, but also include issues relating to intercultural or international adoption, interracial adoption, and coercion of birthparents.