By TAO
Better known today as the Kafauver Subcommittee. Senator Estes Kefauver was appointed the Chairman of the subcommittee. It is important to note that Senator Kafauver was an adoptive parent of a son and had a special interest in adoption practices, in his opening remarks wondered “why there are no Federal safeguards to protect the child“. At the time of the hearing it was also noted that there was about 90,000 domestic infant adoptions per year. Read the rest of this entry »