CARANGELO v. CONNECTICUT: A Case of Lifelong Opposition to Government Protected Child Stealing

Carangelo v. Connecticut, a federal civil rights case claiming "government protected child stealing under color of state adoption sealed records laws, was neither won nor lost. After arguing the case for 4 years in U.S. District Court of Connecticut, it finally reached the United States Supreme Court, where a conservative Justice's corporate law clerk decided not to allow the high court to hear the issue. This book explains how and why, for the past 4 decades, "legalized" child stealing has escalated in America - an issue which the general public could not fathom until media documented migrant children in cages who began to "disappear." Today, the federal Child Abuse and Prevention Act (CAPTA), and the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), intended to help children and families, have more blatantly terrorized and torn families apart for forced adoptions while financially rewarding the kidnappers -- government protected child stealing. This book is for adoption reform activists, attorneys, law students, writers, researchers and anyone who may be or become part of half the United States population who has an adoption or relinquishment for adoption in their immediate family.