twohey. the situation of rehome buying adoptive parents is something that most law makers never anticipated. if we think about the rights of parents to care for their children and make decisions about where they will live, where they will be placed, i don't think anyone anticipated this. i certainly thing there is a lot of confusion about what legal custody or power of attorney documents even mean. what responsibility that infers and what responsibilities parents need to maintain. guidance from the federal level about this new type of situation is certainly important. >> is there -- we talked about the fact that there are plenty of situations in which biological parents end up transferring custody of their children for a variety of reasons. there is no oversight at the federal or state level. is there a reason to treat adoptive children differently than biological children when it comes to the transfer of custody? >> i don't think so. it's really important for all of us to remember that a chi

twohey. the situation of rehome buying adoptive parents is something that most law makers never anticipated. if we think about the rights of parents to care for their children and make decisions about where they will live, where they will be placed, i don't think anyone anticipated this. i certainly thing there is a lot of confusion about what legal custody or power of attorney documents even mean. what responsibility that infers and what responsibilities parents need to maintain. guidance from the federal level about this new type of situation is certainly important. >> is there -- we talked about the fact that there are plenty of situations in which biological parents end up transferring custody of their children for a variety of reasons. there is no oversight at the federal or state level. is there a reason to treat adoptive children differently than biological children when it comes to the transfer of custody? >> i don't think so. it's really important for all of us to remember that a chi

twohey. the situation of re-homing by adoptive parents is something that most law makers never anticipated. if we think about the rights of parents to care for their children and make decisions about where they will live, where they will be placed, i don't think anyone anticipated this. i certainly think there's a lot of confusion about what legal custody or power of attorney documents even mean. what kind of responsibility that confers and what responsibilities parents have to maintain. so i think guidance from the federal level about this new type of situation is certainly important. >> is there -- we talked about the fact that there are plenty of situations in which biological parents end up transferring custody of their children for a variety of reasons. there is no oversight at the federal or state level. is there a reason to treat adoptive children differently than biological children when it comes to the transfer of custody? >> i don't think so. it's really important for all of us to r

miss twohey? >> once again as a journalist, i can't share my opinion, i can only share the facts as i've gathered them. i think that in terms of what can be done to address rehoming, specifically you are looking at sort of two things. one, what can be done to prevent it? on that front you are looking at scrutiny, perhaps more scrutiny of perspective adoptive parents, the quantity and quality of training requirements for families who want to adopt. that's one of the things that experts and other child advocates have brought up, as well as the support services for struggling adoptive families. that those two things could really help prevent rehoming. then you move on to the question of what happens when families decide that they are going to privately rehome. there you're looking at this what right now is a patchwork of state laws with regard to the advertising of children and custody transfers of children. there aren't any uniform regulations, aren't any uniform standards on how children can and sh

miss twohey? >> once again as a journalist, i can't share my opinion, i can only share the facts as i've gathered them. i think that in terms of what can be done to address rehoming, specifically, you're looking at sort of two things. one, what can be done to prevent it. and on that front you're looking at scrutiny, perhaps more scrutiny of prospective adoptive parents. the quantity and quality of training requirements for families who want to adopt. that's one of the things that experts and other child advocates have brought up. as well as the support services for struggling adoptive families. that those two things could really help prevent rehoming. then you move on to the question of what happens when families decide that they are going to privately re-home. there you're looking at this what right now is a patchwork o. there you're looking at this what right now is a patchwork of state laws with regard to the advertising of children and custody transfers of children. there aren't any uniform re