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  2. List of Jim Crow law examples by state - Wikipedia

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    Enacted three miscegenation laws between 1809 and 1913, and a 1952 statute that required adoption petitions to state the race of both the petitioner and child. A 1913 miscegenation law broadened the list of races unacceptable as marriage partners for whites to include persons belonging to the "African, Korean, Malayan, or Mongolian race."

  3. Adoption in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Rehoming is not adoption and because of that, the government does not have to be notified and adoption agencies are not involved. Thus, re-homing is a prime target for child and sex traffickers. There are laws set in place to protect children through adoption processes and against sex trafficking, but there are barely any laws regarding rehoming.

  4. Adoption and Safe Families Act - Wikipedia

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    ASFA was enacted in a bipartisan manner to correct problems inherent within the foster care system that deterred adoption and led to foster care drift. Many of these problems had stemmed from an earlier bill, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, [1] although they had not been anticipated when that law was passed, as states decided to interpret that law as requiring biological ...

  5. Mothers of truant children can be jailed, Missouri Supreme ...

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  6. Top Missouri court upholds law imposing jail time for parents ...

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    The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a law criminalizing low school attendance for parents. Two single mothers from Lebanon, Mo., challenged the law after they were sentenced over their ...

  7. Fact check: Will Missouri’s Amendment 3 enable sex ... - AOL

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    Even if Amendment 3 modified Missouri’s mandatory reporting laws — which it does not — federal law still requires health care providers to report any suspected trafficking of children under ...

  8. Uniform Adoption Act - Wikipedia

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    The Uniform Law Commissioners recognized the controversy created by the Uniform Adoption Act in their Legislative Summary, noting that the Act "contains many studied compromises in the effort to be as fair as possible to all parties, but there are no illusions about the satisfaction that the Uniform Adoption Act (1994) will provide to many people with committed interest in adoption issues."

  9. LGBTQ rights in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Missouri has no laws limiting the rights of individuals to adopt children based on the adoptive parents' LGBT status. [39] As of 2009, with respect to same-sex couples, as well as to second-parent adoption where the second parent is the same sex as the first parent, there had been no explicit prohibitions nor any court cases.