oct 30, 1955 - Senator Kefauver of Tennessee holds oversight hearings on adoption practices (Children's Bureau, 2012)

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Senator Estes Kefauver initiated the Senate Judiciary Committee’s first hearings about deceptive and abusive private adoption practices in 1955. These hearings, and the shocking testimony of birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted people, were a significant factor in the development of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children to protect children being placed across State lines for foster care or adoption.