Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks: Priorities and Tragedies

More of this Feature • Introduction • Opening Remarks • Open Records • Adoptee Access to Records • Opposition to Access • Practive vs Theory • Post-Adoption Contact • Types of Adoption • Enforceable Agreements • Values About Openness • Lobbying 101 • My Final Take • Biographical Info

Opening remarks set the tone for the symposium right from the start.

The Center's Director, Professor Kent Markus, opened the two-day event with a welcome and introduced the Dean of the Capital Law School, Professor Steven Bahls. Dean Bahls made reference to the upside-down financial priorities given to the child welfare sector:

• we spend the least to keep children in their homes,
• the next greatest amount on foster care, and
• the most to institutionalize children.

With that thought, he introduced Judge Evelyn Stratton.

Judge Stratton sits on the Ohio Supreme Court and is a member of the Center's Board and the Board of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. In her remarks, she pointed to the needs for education about adoption that are being met through the efforts of the Center which reaches out to students, lawyers, and judges, as well as others intimately connected with adoptive and foster families. Her comments included the observation that placements of children in adoptive families is a wonderful thing but one preceded by tragedies: the tragedy of telling parents they have no more rights to these children, and the even greater tragedy of telling children they have no more rights to these parents.

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