Madelyn Freundlich
Biography
Madelyn Freundlich is Policy Director for Children’s Rights, Inc., New York, NY. She formerly served as the Executive Director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and as General Counsel for the Child Welfare League of America. She is a social worker and lawyer whose worked has focused on child welfare policy and practice for the past decade. She has authored a number of publications on child welfare law and policy and, most recently, on adoption issues. She has written numerous articles on such issues as the impact of welfare reform on foster care and special needs adoption; genetic testing in adoption evaluations; the application of the American with Disabilities Act to adoption practice; and confidentiality in child welfare practice. Ms. Freundlich holds masters degrees in social work and public health and holds a JD and LL.M
Publications
Wrongful Adoption: Law, Policy and Practice (with Lisa Peterson),
The Role of Race, Culture and National Origin in Adoption,
The Market Forces in Adoption,
The Impact of Adoption on Members of the Triad,
Adoption and Assisted Reproduction
Articles
The US Department of Health and Human Services Issues Program Instruction on Interjurisdictional Ado
In October 2002, the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a Program Instruction that reviews the requirements under the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) and subsequent amendments... [more]
The Adoption and Safe Families Act - Foster Parent Notice and an Opportunity to be Heard
As a result of recent changes in federal law, foster parents, pre-adoptive parents and relatives who are caring for a child in foster care are entitled to notice and an opportunity to be heard at... [more]
New Hope for Kids in Foster Care
Thanks to changes in the law, more parents are taking another look at foster adoption.It is 1995, and four-year-old Timmy has been in foster care most of his life. He was removed from his mother's... [more]
