Ideology and Values
One law of child welfare policy that many people have opposed is the Adam Walsh Act. This law, which states had to adopt by 2009 unless they wanted to have a 10-percent cut in funds that Congress gives them to fight crime, requires states to make stricter laws about registering sex offenders and publish public information about where these sex offenders live and what they look like. This law also requires that the penalties for sex offenders who don’t register be stricter and more heavily enforced (Will States Say No). Not only are actual sex offenders required to be registered but people who were “convicted of nonviolent, nonpredatory crimes” (Duncan) are required to be registered as well.
With these stricter laws people should be happier but this hasn’t been the case. Many people have …show more content…
Taking abused children away from where they are being abused is a necessary step in protecting children. Many people oppose taking away children at the first site of child abuse though because this is not always the best thing for the child. Many of these children get bounced around from foster family to foster family and are never given a real sense of home once they are taken away from their actual