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Bill: Adoption Amendment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Al'Badara Republican Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2457
Description[?]:
| This bill is to strictly regulate adoption standards, that there should be more than just a routine check-up to adopt a child. It should involve visits by social workers beforehand at the home environment, psychological evaluation and stringent criminal checks to weed out undesirable and unfit prespective parents. Most adopted children either come from orphanages or broken homes (drug fiends, disabled children parents couldn't or wouldn't care for) and thus need a loving family. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning adoption.
Old value:: Adoption is regulated by the government. Applicants can adopt after a routine check-up.
Current: Regulation is used to screen out only those with a previous history of child abuse.
Proposed: Adoption is strictly regulated by the government. Only by passing several tests and by following an intensive program applicants can adopt children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:39:00, September 15, 2007 CET | From |  Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment Act |
| Message | I just realised that the deadline is after the election but noticed that there were no bills in quorem... |
| Date | 09:18:50, September 16, 2007 CET | From | People's Communist Party | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment Act |
| Message | The PSP fears that this legislation would be used to enforce discrimination in adoption depending on the prejudices of the government of the day. We fear what would happen should, for example, the CNF be in charge of such 'testing'. |
| Date | 15:59:07, September 16, 2007 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment Act |
| Message | No, the testing will not be influence by politics or religion but by our nation's top sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and educators that will plead political neutrality to further our most important natural resource: our children, especially ones that had the unfortunate placement of being in families that offer no moal or emotional support. |
| Date | 01:08:05, September 17, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment Act |
| Message | The PM believes that people who are fit to parent should be allowed to parent, those unfit should not be allowed to harm the child. |
| Date | 05:35:48, September 17, 2007 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Adoption Amendment Act |
| Message | The old method is a routine check-up, there should be psychological and sociological examinations of prospective adopted parents to have the children. We don't want to send an innocent child to an emotionally abuse home or send a disabled child to a family that cannot support the child's needs financially or morally. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 105 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 152 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Culturally Open nations can adopt advisory/non-enforceable Nation Descriptions. See http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6242 |
| Random quote: "When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'" - Martin Luther King Jr. |