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Ethical Child Care Practices
Permanent Legal Guardianship (PLG) also known as "adoption guardianship" and "adoption simple" provides permanent, loving family care, as a last resort, for children who cannot be cared for by any extended family members.
PLG respects and protects familial connections by never amending, falsifying or changing in any way a child's original certificate of birth nor barring him access to same.
PLG provides unrestricted visitation, providing supervised visitation when necessary to protect a child's safety. Such rights are enforceable and denying of such rights punishable by law.
Parents faced with losing physical custody to a PLG — as well as those faced with losing parental right through traditional adoption — must be provided objective counseling and separate legal representation paid for through a central fund. If the guardianship or adoption is entered into voluntarily, the parent retains the right to revoke such a situation with a reasonable time period of up to six months.
Those who have been adopted in traditional sealed adoptions should be given immediate and unconditional access to their birth records. To deny a person such vital identifying information is discriminatory and an unconscionable violation of human rights as described by the United Nations.
