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Published Date: 19 July 2009

By John Tagliabue in Paris

WHEN Jacques Roquencourt handles photographs, he does so with delicate hands. An accomplished aerospace engineer, he has spent his life building things like airborne radar systems. He is also one of France's foremost experts on early photography, particularly the work of Daguerre.

But when a package of photographs arrived recently from Freiburg, Germany, he handled them with special delicacy – if investigations under way bear fruit, one of the men in the black and white photos, taken in the 1930s, will prove to be the father wADVERTISEMENT

American Parents of Russian Adoptees Make Voices Heard in Russian Government

Author of "A Guide to Russian Adoption: Professional Counseling and Personal Insights" Welcomes the Director of International Adoption from St. Petersburg, Russia to US

DOVER, N.H., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Alisa Karwowski, author of A Guide to Russian Adoption: Professional Counseling and Personal Insights and mother of two Russian adoptees, welcomes Galina Sigaeva, the Director for International Adoption for the region of Saint Petersburg, Russia. During her inaugural visit to the United States, she will be documenting her observations of the Russian-American adoption process. Sigaeva has been charged with filing a report to the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Russia on the state of Russian adoption policy and practice within the United States upon her return home.

As anxieties rise over the potential abolition of adoptions from Russia to the United States, Karwowski and her husband Tim have invited Sigaeva to a welcoming event on July 19(th). The couple and their sons, both Russian-natives, will host over 130 guests, most of whom are themselves adoptive parents. The group will take the opportunity to speak to the stringent and comprehensive process they and other pre-adoptive parents in the United States undergo before an adoption is granted. Sigaeva will also be introduced to over 40 Russian adoptees living in the New England and Northeast region of the United States.

The Karwowski's goal is show Sigaeva firsthand a group of children thriving in their new homes and thereby compel her to implore the Russian government to continue their relationship with the United States and ensure that adoption between the two nations remain active. To ensure this process becomes more efficient on the US-side, Karwowski has recently founded the New Hampshire Chapter of Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption (FRUA). The organization offers advice for pre-adoptive parents currently undergoing the process of adoption and offers on-going support to adoptive parents and their children.

Ties that bind: Families who adopted children from Russia gather together in Dover

By LESLIE MODICA

lmodica@fosters.com

lmodica@fosters.com

Monday, July 20, 2009

Posted on Tue, Jul. 21, 2009

Adoption-records advocates to protest in Phila.

By Jeff Gammage

Inquirer Staff Writer

Michelle Edmunds was born in Chicago, placed in foster care as a toddler, adopted at 10, and raised in Canada.

Adoption law to be changed before autumn

Romanians based abroad will qualify for adopting children from the country. The new law will shorten processing terms.

published in issue 4473 page 5 at 2009-07-16

Romanian nationals based abroad will be allowed to adopt children from Romania, adoption processing terms will be shortened and special adoption management offices will be set up following amendments to Law 273/2005 on the legal regime of adoptions to be adopted at the end of September, according to ‘Ziua’ daily. ‘There are many applications filed under Law 49/2009 stipulating that the inter-country adoption of a child already declared adoptable may only be approved in the situation where the adopting parent is the child’s next of kin up to the 3rd degree, Bogdan Panait, Secretary of State at the Romanian Adoptions Office, has stated. He further noted that, for the time being, the authorities were not considering the ‘liberalisation’ of international adoptions because such a thing could only happen when we have a very thoroughly regulated domestic adoption system and post-adoption procedures. According to the official, the new law will offer ways to expedite the processing of the adoption of children already declared fit for adoption. Romania currently has a total of 22,000 children in residential care and 20,000 in foster care, most of who have families and may not be offered for adoption, the source further explained. ‘Our intention is that all those children who are taken into care and who cannot be reunited with their families or extended families should be declared fit for adoption. It’s abnormal for an infant who is left behind in the maternity hospital to be raised by foster parents until coming of age’, Panait said. Only 1,000 children are currently adoptable in Romania. The number of families cleared for adoption is 2,500. The procedure is rather difficult, taking 15 months on the average.

by Adelina Mihut

Copil de 4 ani, trimis inapoi la cersit in Italia de justitia romana

7 februarie, 10:43

ZIUA foto

Un copil de numai patru ani, pus sa cerseasca de propria familie in Italia, starneste un adevarat scandal diplomatic intre autoritatile romane si cele italiene. Totul a pornit dupa ce Tribunalul de Roma a decis ca baiatul sa fie trimis in Romania si sa fie ingrijit de un asistent maternal, dar justitia de la noi a hotarat ca acesta sa fie incredintat mamei naturale, inapoi in Italia, transmite RealitateaTV.

Insusi ministrul de Externe italian, Franco Frattini s-a aratat extrem de ingrijorat de cazul copilului si le cere autoritatilor de la Bucuresti sa ia masuri.

Nr. 4587 de miercuri, 15 iulie 2009

Modificare la adoptii

-- Doar 1000 de copii sunt declarati adoptabili din 42.000 aflati in sistemul de protectie * Romanii din strainatate vor putea sa adopte copii din tara

Cetatenii romani cu domiciliul in strainatate vor putea sa adopte copii din Romania, procesul de adoptie va fi scurtat si se vor crea birouri speciale pentru gestionarea adoptiilor. In acest sens, Legea 273/2005 privind regimul juridic al adoptiei va suferi unele modificari ce urmeaza a fi definitivate la sfarsitul lunii septembrie.

"Sunt multe cereri in baza Legii 49/2009 care prevede ca adoptia internationala a unui copil declarat adoptabil poate fi incuviintata numai in situatia in care adoptatorul este ruda pana la gradul al III-lea inclusiv cu copilul declarat adoptabil", a spus, ieri, intr-o conferinta de presa, secretarul de stat de la Oficiul Roman pentru Adoptii, Bogdan Panait. El a precizat ca nu se gandeste deocamdata sa "dea drumul" la adoptiile interna tionale, acest subiect putand fi abordat in momentul in care domeniul adoptiilor interne si cel al procedurilor post-adoptie vor fi foarte bine reglementate. El a precizat ca noua lege va gasi solutii pentru a micsora perioada in care un copil este declarat adoptabil. In prezent, Romania are 22.000 de copii in sistemul rezidential si alti 20.000 in asistenta maternala. Insa, majoritatea acestor copii au familii si nu pot fi dati spre adoptie. "Ne propunem ca toti copiii, care intra in sistemul de protectie si nu poate fi integrat in familie sau in familia extinsa, sa fie declarati adoptabili. Nu e normal sa fie abandonat un copil in maternitate si sa fie tinut in asistenta maternala pana la majorat", a mai spus Panait. In prezent, doar 1.000 de copii sunt declarati adoptabili, in timp ce numarul familiilor atestate, ce pot adopta copii, se ridica la 2500. O adoptie dureaza in prezent, in medie, un an si trei luni.

International adoptions should be allowed in Romania

International adoptions should be allowed in Romania

while this is in the interest of the child, said on Friday, President

of the Italian Committee on the Child Alessandra Mussolini in the meeting with representatives of the Romanian authorities.

"What we all want is to eliminate the children's homes and

ISRAEL: ISRAELI COUPLES BARRED FROM ADOPTING BABIES DUE TO MID-EAST SITUATION.(from Russia and Ukraine)(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database | April 22, 2002 | Copyright

A number of Eastern European countries including Russia and Ukraine no longer permit international adoptions to Israel because they fear for the children's safety, according to an Israeli daily. Nehama Tal, the Israeli government's national inspector for international adoptions, recently went to Russia, however failed to change its policy regarding Israel. "It's never been this difficult to do an international adoption, since the authority for international adoptions was founded," Tal ...