Zug: SC must close loophole that endangers children through ‘re-homing’

Zug: SC must close loophole that endangers children through ‘re-homing’

‘Re-homing” is the practice of placing one’s adopted child with a new family. Frequently, these new families are strangers, and unlike the initial adoption, re-homing occurs without any judicial or other governmental oversight. Child-welfare advocates estimate that at least 10 percent of all foreign children are re-homed and that this percentage increases for older adoptees. South Carolina families adopted 122 foreign children last year, and nearly half of them were older adoptees. So it’s likely that at least a dozen children in our state are re-homed every year. This practice needs to end.