State. Justice. and Judiciary appropriations bill for fiscal year 1989. former Senator Lawton Chiles of Florida was able to include language to permit U.S. families to adopt foreign illegitimate children who may have had at some time a bona fide relationship with their natural fathers. The Chiles language was amended in conference to state that the term "parent" in section 101(b)(1)(F) does not include the natural father of the child if the father has disappeared or abandoned or deserted the child or if the father has in writing irrevocably released the child for emigration and adoption. Mr. Speaker. because the current language will expire with the fiscal year. it is imperative that we make the necessary permanent legislative change.
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