INDIA - MC nuns struggle to give babies for adoption

Published Date: March 5, 2010

Missionaries of Charity nuns and volunteers at a home for ‘unwanted’ children

RAIPUR, India (UCAN) — A bureaucratic tangle is delaying attempts by Missionaries of Charity (MC) nuns to give orphan babies up for adoption.

On Aug. 31, 2009, the Chhattisgarh state government allowed the nuns to give babies up for adoption, listing the nun’s center as a licensed agency for promoting domestic adoption.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2009

information about healthy referrels in Bulgaria...

This is written by an adoptive parent that was in Bulgaria this past week to visit her down syndrome son;

As for what my agency told me, they said that the MOJ told agencies last week that they do not, at this time, have any new referrals for young children. They have requested that directors (at the baby houses) send them any new children avaliable for adoption in January. It will then take them 2-3 months to do everything required to start giving this information to the agencies. As far as "young healthy" children, here is what I was told:

The MOJ wants to "fill the requests" of families that have sent in dossiers, but the children are NOT there. There is a waiting list in Bulgaria of Bulgarian families that want to adopt healthy young children up to the age of 2. As soon as this was said, I immediately said, "Yes, but what about the Roma children. In the US, we are told that Bulgarian families do not adopt the Roma children." This is the reply that I got, "Shelley, what do you know about the Roma culture. Do you know why we call them Gypies?" (Ummm, no I don't) It was then explained to me about how their culture (Roma) thinks in regards to children. Basically, if a healthy baby is born to a Gypsy woman (family) and the child can not be taken care of by the birth mother, then the " gypsy family unit"(not my words) takes the child in and raises it. If the child has special needs, then the child is abandoned (place in an orphanage).

Woman linked with illegal adoptions is deported from the U.S.

POR CORALIA ORANTES Guatemala

Lawyer Alma Beatriz Valle Flores de Mejía arrived in Guatemala Thursday after being deported from the U.S. Valle is linked with various illegal adoption cases through her involvement with the Asociación Primavera.

Valle Flores arrived around 1 pm and police transferred her to the fourth criminal court of first instance where she gave her declaration.

The lawyer was captured in Houston, USA, and a warrant had been ordered for her address by the sixth criminal court of first instance on October 2nd, 2009.

9 MARCH 2010

bad news

Well, the news out of Bulgaria is bad news :(

Since our case was assigned to a judge that is not "adoption friendly",

we have, of course, already run in to a problem with completing the adoption.

Volcano Complicates Adoption of Child With Down Syndrome

Monday April 19, 2010

There's been a lot in the news lately about ash from the volcano in Iceland wreaking havoc on European air travel, and a lot in the news lately about Eastern European adoption gone awry. Cross those two stories, and what do you get? Two women trapped in a Bulgarian hotel room with a just-adopted special-needs child and no way to get home.

Leah Spring, who writes about her daughter with Down syndrome and other family matters on the blog Garden of Eagan, went to Sofia, Bulgaria, in early April to assist in the adoption of a boy who has Down syndrome and a heart condition; check on other children in orphanages who need forever families; and talk with Bulgarian families who have chosen -- despite a lack of social support -- to raise their own children with DS. Plans were for Leah, adoptive mom Shelley Bedford, and newly adopted Kullen to return on April 18.

Then Eyjafjallajokull started filling European skies with sticky ash and European airports with grounded jets.

Bulgaria's disturbing baby market

By Rosie Goldsmith

BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents

As Bulgaria prepares to join the EU, there are certain issues it has to tackle, not least its murky underworld where even babies are for sale.

The selling of babies is a growing business across Eastern Europe

Parliamentary questions

4 March 2010

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WRITTEN QUESTION by Cristiana Muscardini (PPE) to the Commission

Subject: Abandoned children in Romania

CE va "urmari indeaproape" situatia adoptiilor internationale din Romania

Publicat: 28 Aprilie 2010 @ 14:36

Viviane Reding, vicepresedinte al Comisiei Europene si comisar pentru justitie, libertate si securitate, a raspuns unei intrebari a unui europarlamentar roman, legata de adoptii. Comisarul nu da curs cererii de a se pozitiona impotriva liberalizarii adoptiilor internationala in Romania, dar promite ca in orice decizie sa primeze interesele copiilor.

Europarlamentarul Sabin Cutas a primit, marti, raspunsul vicepresedintei Comisiei Europene Viviane Reding, care este comisarul pentru justitie, libertate si securitate, la scrisoarea adresata de Cutas privind liberalizarea adoptiilor internationale in contextul conferintei Comisiei Europene si a Consiliului Europei cu tema "Provocari ale procedurilor de adoptie in Europa".

Prin scrisoare, Sabin Cutas atragea atentia asupra cazului Romaniei si cerea CE sa nu sustina liberalizarea adoptiilor internationale in aceasta tara. onform raspunsului oferit de comisarul european, "participantii la conferinta au fost informati asupra principiilor care formeaza Conventia din 1993 privind adoptiile internationale, asupra aplicarii acesteia si a rezultatelor studiilor comparate lansate recent de catre Comisia Europeana si Parlamentul European".

Metro Atlanta / State News 4:53 a.m. Monday, April 26, 2010

Nonprofit adoption agencies often profit someone other than children, families

AJC investigation: Big portions of agency budgets go to top executives

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FERMATHE, HAITI—Her name is not Jonatha — that’s the first surprise. It’s Lovely.

The second surprise, and this is the big one, is that the 2-year-old girl plucked from the rubble of her home six days after the earthquake is not an orphan. She has a big family — a mother, a father, aunts and uncles, cousins, and a little brother whom she likes to tickle and sing to, unless he’s trying to grab her red marker.