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Official Joint Announcement: Expanded Hague Adoption Convention Processing with the United States following the Conclusion of the Special Adoption Program (SAP) in Vietnam

The Department of State is pleased to announce that effective December 31, 2020, Vietnam will expand the categories of children that are eligible for intercountry adoption with the United States under the Hague Adoption Convention. This follows Vietnam lifting the limitations of the Special Adoption Program, which previously allowed processing only for children with special needs, over five years old, and/or in biological sibling groups.

The United States and Vietnam held discussions from June to September 2020 on intercountry adoptions with an emphasis on our mutual commitment to cooperate on child protection issues. We acknowledge Vietnam’s legal improvements, particularly under Decree 24/2019/ND-CP, to better align with the Hague Adoption Convention. Vietnam’s commitment to ongoing adoption reform is demonstrated by the progress made to build necessary safeguards and infrastructure, and meet its obligations under the Convention. Such significant improvements have contributed to a determination to process intercountry adoption cases for all eligible children under the Convention and follow the respective laws of the two countries.

Vietnam has not expressed plans to change the current limitation on the number of U.S. adoption service providers (ASPs) authorized to operate in Vietnam. These decisions are entirely within the jurisdiction of the Vietnamese government and these limitations exist for all partner countries participating in intercountry adoptions.

Vietnam and the United States will continue to process cases previously started under the Special Adoption Program to completion for children already determined eligible for intercountry adoption with interested U.S. prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) and/or for which U.S. PAPs have already completed dossiers. For cases other than those mentioned above, processing shall be in accordance with current Vietnamese law and in conformity with the Convention. There will not be changes to how cases are processed by the United States; U.S. PAPs will continue to use the Form I-800 for the Hague Adoption Convention process.

By Johannes Lindgren

When I first got the message from the adoption agency that my birth father did not want to meet me, I thought that I must have scared him.

He probably thought I was coming back to ask him for money, or perhaps blame him for leaving me. Therefore, I made sure to communicate that I did not want anything from him, I did well on my own, and I was not planning to confront him in any way. I simply wanted to meet a person that I was biologically related to; see what he looked like, if there were any similarities between the two of us, and also ask him if he knew anything about my birth mother. Perhaps he had a photo of her.

The answer came back quickly from the agency; he was not scared of me ? he was scared that his family would find out about me. The fact that he once had a son had been kept a secret from his wife ? and from his daughters.

The sudden disappointment from my birth father's rejection was in an instant swept away by this new revelation. I had two (half) sisters! This new piece of information gave me a lot of joy, but it also put me in a moral dilemma. Should I contact my sisters? Would they be pleased to, at an adult age, gain a brother!? I would not know unless I contacted them. But if my birth father wanted to keep me as his secret, was it wrong to reveal myself against his will? Who has the moral right in this case? A man who wishes his son to remain a secret or the son who wishes to know his origins?

Adoption is a wonderful way to grow a family and give a child in need a home. But the process can be prohibitively expensive. In fact, the average cost of a private agency adoption in the U.S. is $43,000, according to a report from Adoptive Families Magazine. That's because there are numerous expenses that go into the process:

Attorney fees

Court fees

Home studies

Travel expenses

Dinja van Lankveld (39) is born in Sri Lanka and adopted by Dutch parents after six weeks, because her young mother cannot take care of her. Dinja was happy with her adoption for a long time, but she slowly changes her mind.

“It's all very vague, I don't really know who to trust,” she says about her contact with the adoption agency.

INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION

LINDA.nl spoke to Dinja in 2016 about a decision by the Council for the Application of Criminal Law and Youth Protection. They advised to prevent international adoption as much as possible and to first find housing for the children in their country of origin. At the time, Dinja understood the discussion, but she was especially happy with her adoption: "I have had many more opportunities than my brother and sisters who did grow up in Sri Lanka."

Now, four years later, she is still happy with these opportunities and the warm nest she ended up in. Yet she is not comfortable. Dinja: “I got love, money and opportunities here, certainly. The Netherlands feels like my home base, but so does Sri Lanka. I think I could also have been very happy in Sri Lanka, then many people would have been spared a lot of grief. I don't have a good connection with my roots, I miss the country. I also believe that it is never in the best interest of a child to take it away from family. ”

ECONOMYNEXT- A 47-year-old man arrested in Matale for allegedly maintaining ‘baby farms’ was released on conditional bail and two sureties worth Rs 200,000 each by the Moratuwa Magistrate’s court today, December 23.

The suspect was produced before the courts this morning on charges of child trafficking.

The suspect has been ordered to reappear before the Moratuwa Magistrate’s Court on 04 January next year.

According to Police Media Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana, the suspect has contacted pregnant women who were the victims of rape and sexual abuse and had brought them to two places in Kaldemulla, Moratuwa where he had allegedly entered into an agreement with the pregnant women to sell their babies to third parties.

DIG Rohana said such trafficking of infants is called baby farms in other countries and according to section 360 of the Penal Code human trafficking is an offence, so the suspect will be charged under that as selling an unborn fetus is seen as human trafficking.

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Two revelations of child trafficking in recent weeks remind us of the need for extreme vigilance everywhere in the world.

Child trafficking in Kenya

One of these child trafficking is in Kenya: an investigation broadcast by the BBC, " These babies for sale on the black market in Nairobi ", with the first episode released in November 2020 revealed the existence of a immense child trafficking.

Director Peter Murimi, co-author of the investigation with Joel Gunter and Tom Watson, was caught up in 2019 ads in local newspapers about missing children. They reveal that women in financial difficulty are led to sell their babies or have them stolen. The infants are then sold by intermediaries to couples in expectation of children; or even, which is cold in the back, to people who organize rituals of child sacrifices.

This market works well because the pressure exerted on women to be mothers is very important in this country. This is what explains Maryana Munyendo , director of the Missing Child association: “ We are Africans, our culture wants you to have a child for a marriage to work, preferably a boy. Otherwise, you go back to the village and you are called a dry wood plank, so what do you do to save your marriage? You are stealing a child. “Sometimes even equally vulnerable people steal infants and then resell them.

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“I hate myself.” The words slipped out of my youngest child’s mouth with a casual levity. Only 5 years old, her voice still carries that bright, fluted tonality unique to young children. The first time she said it, she was sitting in a little pink play-chair set against the wall in her grandmother’s living room, where she’d been living with her sister.

“I’m ugly,” she added. “I’m dumb.”

These aren’t things that she or her 6-year-old sister have been told at home—at least not that I’ve heard. Since the moment she was born and placed on my breast, where she immediately latched on and nursed contentedly for almost an hour, she’s been showered with love and affection. Neither child has ever experienced anything resembling abuse or neglect.

But in early 2018, a little over a month after I hauled my family from our home in Seattle to my in-laws’ home in Broward County, Florida so their father could recuperate from mental illness, he and I were removed from the home—and our daughters from our custody—by child services.

This followed an argument I had with my in-laws, after which they made allegations of abandonment and drug use against me. The abandonment charges would eventually be dismissed, and the claims of drug use negated by slews of tests. But by that point, my daughters were already living with them, I was already homeless in a strange state without resources, and we were ordered to complete numerous requirements within 15 months. When their father and I did not complete those mandates in time and to the court’s satisfaction, our parental rights were permanently severed. Our daughters were adopted out to their paternal grandparents.