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CategoryYou and Your Family

Understanding your rights & responsibilities at home.

You and Your Family
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What is kidnapping?

Kidnapping is defined as knowingly restraining someone with a specific intent to do something. This may be to collect a 

You and Your Family
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What happens to me if my parents get a divorce?

If your parents get a divorce, it doesn′t mean that they′re no longer your parents, or that they no longer 

You and Your Family
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What is foster care? How long does it last?

Half a million children live in foster homes, group homes, emergency receiving homes, or child-crisis centers across the U.S. Twenty-four 

You and Your Family
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What does adoption mean?

Under special circumstances, you may receive a new parent or parents. If your parents die, for example, or agree to