The U.S. Adoption and Safe Families Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in 1997.

Sam Goldstein is a neuropsychologist on the faculty of the University of Utah and in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City. He is the co-author of Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child and the forthcoming Raising a Self-Disciplined Child: Help Your Child Become More Responsible, Confident and Resilient. […]

Oren Gross is a professor at University of Minnesota Law School. He is author of the paper, “The Prohibition on Torture and the Limits of the Law.”

The Rev. Jerome W. Berryman, an author and Episcopal priest, is a senior fellow with the Center for the Theology of Childhood in Houston. He has developed an internationally used approach to religious education called “Godly Play,” inspired by the Montessori approach to learning, which teaches children through parables, silence, liturgical movement and sacred stories. It’s used internationally […]

Ann Annis is a researcher at the Center for Social Research at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Douglass Cassel is former director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University, a professor of law at Notre Dame University and a frequent commentator on human rights issues. Contact 574.631.7895 (office),773-750-5387 (cell).

The Center for Victims of Torture is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1985 in Minneapolis. It provides treatment, training, education and research. Contact through Jenni Bowring-McDonough, Media Relations Manager.

Read a May 9, 2006, Washington Post story about parents who shy away from organized religion but want their children to have some introduction to it.

The Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis works to promote human rights and responsibility.