At that point, Gaitanopoulou's Jocasta is center stage, looking out beyond the audience, listening to an innocent-seeming account of the discovery of an abandoned infant many years before, a story that confirms her worst apprehensions.
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A booklet presenting CAPTA as amended by the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003, including the Adoption Opportunities program and Abandoned Infants Assistance Act, as amended, is available on the Children's Bureau website.
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Some of the evidence comes from scattered reports of abandoned infants-- virtually unknown before the war in this society where extended families traditionally step in to provide care for children if anything happens to their parents.
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Baby Moses advocates in Texas also believe that some women are discouraged from bringing their babies to safe-haven locations because of child welfare officials'practice of trying to track down the parents and other relatives of abandoned infants.
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"Whether the people who actually use safe havens are the group it's targeted at, is in doubt, " said John Krall, chief analyst for the National Abandoned Infants Resource Center at the University of California at Berkeley.
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If his identity is unknown, legal notification of the birth, including the mother's last name, must be published . A Seattle single mother who adopted an abandoned infant 18 months ago is thrilled about the Safe Place program.
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Koko-chan tells them that she plans to return to work in a few days . When she does return, however, Koko-chan brings an abandoned infant that she found in a park with her, claiming it to be her own.
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To see that this concept needs reinforcing, she had only to visit an orphanage in New Delhi where 80 percent of the abandoned infants were girls or a hospital in Dhaka where two-thirds of those lucky enough to get care were boys.
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Hospital staff will notify the state Department of Social and Health Services after an abandoned infant is dropped off, and the baby will be placed in foster care until an adoption can be arranged-- a process that usually takes four to six months.
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It was in response to this matter that Congress created the National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center in 1988, a time when these newborns, called " boarder babies, " frequently languished in hospitals for months as officials struggled to find foster homes for them.
