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ACLU of Tennessee to host panel discussion on adoption

by O&AN Staff Reports
Feb 21, 2008 | Email | Print | Share |

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, Human Rights Campaign, Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth, Vanderbilt Child and Family Policy Center, and Tennessee Equality Project will be sponsoring a panel discussion on adoption entitled “The Best Interests of the Child: Adoptions in Tennessee” on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at the Nashville Public Library’s Main Branch.

There will be a reception from 5:30-6:15 pm followed by the program from 6:15-8 pm.

Panelists will include Robert D. Tuke from the law firm Trauger and Tuke and Linda O’Neal, Executive Director of the Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth. The event will be moderated by Christine Sun, ACLU-TN LGBT Project Attorney. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Christine Sun at 615-320-7142.

Letter to the Editor

Posted by nashvilletrans 02/28/08 9:06 AM

Perhaps "concerned" will attend the session and offer comments. With the bill still pending in the current legislative session, we need all of the "concerned" to get involved and help with this important issue.

Posted by christinepsun 02/25/08 3:46 PM

The panelists will also include a social worker and a pediatrician. I'm sorry that you assumed that those folks would not be on the panel.

Posted by christinepsun 02/25/08 3:44 PM

The event will in fact have an adoptive parent as a panelist.

Posted by concerned 02/23/08 7:27 PM

While I admire the idea of the panel and having a discussion of best interests, I find it less than helpful, even disrespectful of adopted children and adults, to have no child psychology and trauma specialists on the panel nor an adult adoptee. Seems the only best interests being followed is that of the agency and organization pretending to care. If a true discussion of best interests is to take place, the researchers and children/adults themselves must be present. Anything less is propaganda.