Tag: adoption
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A True Sea Story About Love, Broken Hearts, and No Closure
by Ernest Huber, ©2022 (Jul. 16, 2022) — In the winter of 1983, having been deployed with my ship to the Western Pacific, I stood with my men inside an orphanage in Seoul, South Korea. It was cold, dimly lit, and smelled of kerosene lamps and charcoal cooking fires. A cute ten-year-old little girl with…
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The Complications Every Adopting Family Should Know
by Contributor (Apr. 28, 2022) — Adoption can be an exciting event, but complications could delay or prevent the celebration. Here are a few things you must prepare for when adopting. Adopting a child can be an enriching experience, but it also comes with complications. While you may have heard about some of them already,…
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The Williams Parents Enjoy Very Brief Visit with Their Children
ADOPTED BY GRANDPARENTS THROUGH LOS ANGELES DCFS by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 16, 2019) — On Saturday, the mother of three children who were legally adopted by her parents through the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) over the course of several years informed us that in September, she and her husband were…
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Parents of Three Children Taken by Los Angeles DCFS Enjoy Recent Visits
“IN ALL I AM BLESSED TO SEE THEM” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 5, 2019) — An Alabama couple whose three children were placed with their maternal grandparents despite no substantiated allegations of abuse or neglect against their parents were able to speak in person with the children on two occasions last week, their mother, Kanika…
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Los Angeles Parents’ Petition Denied by U.S. Supreme Court over Children’s Adoption
AS ORDERED BY THE CALIFORNIA COURTS by Sharon Rondeau (May 5, 2018) — Just after publishing a story Saturday morning of a brief but happy reunion of Roosevelt and Kanika Williams with their three children, Kanika contacted us to advise that she and her husband received a denial to their petition for a writ of…
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Why Was Obama’s Birth Certificate Said to be “Half-Typed and Half-Handwritten?”
WAS THE “ORIGINAL” AMENDED? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 30, 2018) — On Friday evening, radio host Carl Gallups and Obama birth certificate investigator Mike Zullo were guests for the second and third hours of The Hagmann Report to speak about the 5+-year investigation which found in its early stage that the “long-form” birth certificate image…
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Child Custody Goes from “No Case” to “Adoption” Track in Eight Weeks
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 8, 2017) — A father and mother whose legal address is in Alabama but whose three children were placed with their maternal grandparents in California by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) are continuing their efforts to overturn the decisions of the Edelman…
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Report: Los Angeles Judge Ignores Jurisdictional Question from Alabama Father
“JUDGE DOWNING, YOU ARE A CRIMINAL!” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 15, 2017) — On Tuesday, March 14, a hearing to determine whether or not the third child of a couple from Alabama should be designated for adoption by her California-resident grandparents was held at the Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park, CA. The father of…
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Adoption Hearing for Third Child Scheduled for Tuesday in Williams Case
PARENTS CLAIM “ADOPTION WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 13, 2017) — A hearing will take place on Tuesday for the third child of Roosevelt and Kanika Williams at the Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park, CA to begin the adoption process by Kanika’s parents, Willie and Katie Grant. The two elder children…
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Parents Appealing Impending Adoption Ordered by Judge Marguerite Downing
FEDERAL LAWSUIT APPEAL ALSO BEING PREPARED by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 24, 2017) — The parents of three children successively placed in a foster home by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) on a trajectory toward adoption are in the process of writing an appeal of the juvenile court judge’s decision ordering…
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Parents Appeal Los Angeles Judge’s Adoption Order for Two Children
COURT GRANTS TEN-DAY EXTENSION AFTER 90 DAYS REQUESTED IN FIVE-YEAR-OLD CASE by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 23, 2016) — The parents of three children taken from their custody over a five-year period have appealed a Los Angeles judge’s August 2016 order that the elder two be formally adopted by their maternal grandparents. Edelman Children’s Court Judge…
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Children’s Court Judge Accused of “Perverting the Law”
FATHER: SOCIAL WORKER PROVIDED “MANUFACTURED ACCOUNT” TO JUDGE IN CHILDREN’S COURT by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 3, 2016) — In the case of an Alabama couple attempting to regain custody of their three children from the state of California, the father, Roosevelt Williams, reported that he was denied a Marsden hearing requested in August of this…
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Parents Continue to Appeal Loss of Rights, Custody, Scheduled Adoption of Their Children
IN FIVE-YEAR-OLD SAGA by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 17, 2016) — A couple whose three children are in the custody of the mother’s parents by action of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has appealed the termination of their parental rights over the eldest two children ordered by Judge Marguerite Downing. The…
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Do Los Angeles DCFS and Judges Dislike Men?
TWO CASES, ONE JUDGE by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 5, 2016) — When The Post & Email was covering the case of the Henderson family whose eight children were removed from their custody and placed in various foster homes, Jeffrey Henderson told us that the judges at the Edelman Children’s Court in Monterey Park, who adjudicate…
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DCFS Spokesman: Adoption Not Normally Contemplated Six Weeks into a Dependency Case
“NARROW CONDITIONS” REQUIRED TO PURSUE ADOPTION EARLY ON by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 28, 2016) — On Wednesday night, The Post & Email reached Los Angeles DCFS Public Affairs Director Armand Montiel, who we had interviewed on two occasions in 2014 when we were covering the case of the Henderson family. Without identifying the family involved…
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Was Adoption Always the Intent?
“ONLY AFTER REUNIFICATION EFFORTS HAVE FAILED” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 28, 2016) — On September 16, The Post & Email published an initial article about three children removed from their parents’ custody by the Los Angeles DCFS and juvenile court beginning in September 2011 in what the parents say constitutes “illegal government interference with parents’…
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Jeffrey Henderson on Law School, Legal Processes and His Children’s Custody pb
“THEY’RE TELLING THE KIDS THAT I’M DEAD” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 26, 2014) — In our recent interview with Jeffrey Henderson, a father of eight children attempting to secure their release from state custody and impending adoption, he shared with us the knowledge he has acquired in law school which has assisted him in writing…
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Jeffrey Henderson Uses Acquired Legal Knowledge to Fight for His Children pb
“STEALING KIDS LEFT AND RIGHT” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 22, 2014) — On Tuesday, The Post & Email spoke with Jeffrey Henderson, the father of eight children who were taken from his wife and him by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Families (DCFS) more than three years ago. Six of the children now…
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The Los Angeles Department of Children and Families Speaks on Foster Care, Adoption and Reunification pb
“REUNIFICATION IS THE MOST LIKELY OUTCOME” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 17, 2014) — Several weeks ago, The Post & Email interviewed Erica Henderson, the mother of eight whose children have all been placed in foster care and six of whom are scheduled to be adopted. Mrs. Henderson and her husband Jeffrey, who she is in…
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Update on the Henderson Family pb
SIX CHILDREN TO BE ADOPTED DESPITE MOTHER’S STRUGGLE TO REGAIN CUSTODY AT ALL COSTS by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 9, 2014) — For nearly two years, The Post & Email has followed the story of the Henderson children, who were taken from their parents’ custody in May 2011, sent to three different foster homes, and are…