Bert & Gretha en Jonneke & Abush, 22 september 2007

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De laatste week adoptieverlof

Zaterdag 22 september 2007

Onze laatste week adoptieverlof is voorbij, wat gaat die tijd toch snel. Vier weken lijkt heel lang maar het vliegt om. Maar goed dat we nog vakantiedagen gespaard hebben. Afgelopen week hebben we op het werk van Bert kunnen regelen dat hij in oktober nog 2 weken vakantie kan opnemen. Ik ben nog 3 weken vrij nu. Bert gaat maandag weer werken en is dan vanaf 15 oktober nog 2 weken vrij.

Seven Claim Adoption Agency Rolled Them

By MARIMER MATOS

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TAMPA (CN) - Couples trying to adopt children from Vietnam say the Little Pearls Adoptions Agency took $133,000 to "hold" children for them, then informed them it had a "license issue," and refuses to return the money. In the federal RICO complaint, the seven plaintiffs sued Debbie Fischer and Richard Feinberg, directors of Little Pearls, which formerly was known as "An Angelic Choice."

Little Pearls operates out of Tampa and South Pasadena, Fla., according to the complaint. The plaintiffs - three couples and a would-be mom - say the defendants took their money knowing that the adoptions couldn't be completed since the agency was not licensed.

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Adoption shakedown - childless couple left without money and without baby

By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent

Tags: China, Law, Adoption, Israel

They were married 10 years ago. When the wife couldn't get pregnant she began fertility treatments.

Adoption Agencies Banned From Asking Parents About Guns

by Mallory Creveling (Subscribe to Mallory Creveling's posts) Mar 19th 2010 6:36PM

Categories: Adoption, In The News

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A new bill, passed by the Florida Legislature and awaiting the governor's signature, bans adoption agencies from inquiring about potential parents' gun possessions, The Miami Herald reports.

Adoption regulator clueless on SC order

20 Mar 2010, 0916 hrs IST

There seems to be no respite for the surrogate German twins. Adoption

regulator Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) seems to be clueless on a

Supreme Court order to make an exception in the case, allowing the

Russians, Pa. Officials Meet On Boy's Death

YORK, Pa. (AP) ? Prosecutors in central Pennsylvania have met with a delegation from Russia to outline how they will handle the case of a couple accused of killing their 7-year-old son, who was adopted from Russia.

Michael and Nanette Craver were arrested in February at their home near Dillsburg after an autopsy concluded that Nathaniel Craver had about 80 external injuries — including 20 to his head — at the time of his Aug. 25 death. The Cravers are charged with homicide, conspiracy and child endangerment.

According to court documents, Michael Craver told police that the boy hit his head on the stove the night before he was found breathing but unresponsive in bed.

Andrey K. Yushmanov, counsel general of the Russian Federation in New York, and Chief Deputy Prosecutor Tim Barker met along with other officials on the matter Friday.

150 Arunachal kids trafficked in 4 years

Mid-Day.com, Sunday March 21, 2010, Itanagar

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Over the last four years, 150 children from Arunachal Pradesh have been trafficked to Phuntsok Choeling monastery in Kathmandu with the promise of a better education. As recently as last month, six of the 150 children have been reported missing from the monastery, located in Swayambhu.

The children were reported to have gone missing after one of them telephoned their parents in Arunachal, in the first week of February 2010, complaining about the cruel treatment meted out to them at the monastery.

Nepal

PLEASE NOTE: New registrations for Nepal are currently being accepted for the 2011 waitlist.

CHOICES clients have been adopting from Nepal for the past nine years. We are pleased to announce that Nepal is open and the 2009 and 2010 dossier quotas have been filled. We are currently accepting new applications for January 2011.

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Nepal Closure

Three children from the BRESMA orphanage are headed to Guadeloupe tomorrow morning. The French government is sending children people they know and sending them to meet their parents in Guadeloupe. I offered to send our people and pay our own way there and back but they refused. I felt the children had already been severely traumatized and did not need more trauma in their lives right now. What would it have hurt to let some of the American staff go with the children? Please pray for the children and their travel. Pray that they will see this as a wonderful adventure and not a nightmare! GLA has one little girl, Nadege, ready to travel to France but since they would not let one of us go with her to Guadeloupe, her mother is coming to GLA to take her child home.

Children abandoned as Morocco deports adoptive parents

Published: 16 March 2010 09:30 | Changed: 17 March 2010 09:00

Last week, Morocco deported a large number of Christians on suspicion

of proselytizing.

By Gert van Langendonck in Rabat