The industry's overregulation is making it increasingly difficult for willing families to take the plunge and attempt international adoption.

Rachel Garber always knew she wanted to adopt a child. Besides having grown up with five adopted siblings, in 2007 she made a memorable trip to the Chinese city of Xi’an, where she spent a month volunteering at a home for abandoned babies. “During this trip my feelings on adoption were solidified,” she says. “I met my husband Ryan in 2010, and he knew right away that if we got married, we would end up going to China for a child.”

While those plans were temporarily put on hold after their son Nixon was born with special needs, in 2017 the Garbers were finally matched with a little boy in China. After committing to his file, they learned that he was from the very city where Rachel had previously volunteered: Xi’an. “It was meant to be,” she says.

Rachel and Ryan brought their second son, Nolan, home from China to Wyoming last year. Today he is 3 1/2 years old and thriving. His mom describes him as “very loving and yet very strong-willed!” A nearby doctor happens to be the foremost authority in Nolan’s area of medical need. “From the moment we met our son, he has been a joy,” Rachel says. “We have had many hard days, or days where I question my ability, but I can’t imagine our life without him.”

In a nation where tens of thousands of families have adopted children from overseas, the Garbers’ story may sound familiar. But it is a story that is growing increasingly rare. International adoptions to America have been falling dramatically for the past 15 years, and a recent report shows that the decline hasn’t slowed.

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BOSTON - Millions of children are in need and there are thousands of willing families, but international adoptions fell again in 2018.

This is an issue we first uncovered with our reporting on State of Adoption, and the situation is only getting worse.

The number of children from other countries adopted by U.S. families dropped 13 percent to an historic low of 4,000 children.

Adoption advocates blame the U.S. State Department.

"They've put new, very restrictive policies in place that make it more difficult to advocate for children, more difficult for families, more expensive for families, and now the amount of time it takes to adopt and the children available for adoption is making it such that fewer and fewer children are finding families," Ryan Hanlon, a representative from the National Council for Adoption, said.

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It is good that abuses are now being denounced, but we must not break through by advocating just one type of care for children in developing countries. That does not work here either, says expert Philip Veerman.

Abuses For some orphanages in Uganda, recruiters set out to convince poor single mothers in the villages that children are better off in an orphanage. There are also orphanages that run on volunteers from abroad (hence the term "orphanage tourism"). If children attach themselves to volunteers, they return after a while and children have to face another disappointment. For some rogue "entrepreneurs", children are a source of income. Anthropologist Kristen Cheney of the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague called this the "orphan industrial complex". By sending volunteers you maintain everything. The road to wrongdoing is paved with good intentions.

In Summary

The multi-million-shilling child trade industry has been thriving for years and poor households, especially in the slums and villages, have been the target of its scheming directors.

Babies are not only being snatched off the streets by strangers in passing cars, but also being stolen right after birth by nurses and midwives and passed on to social workers.

The distraught mother was kept waiting in a room for seven hours last Saturday, her stomach in knots as she waited to be reunited with her son.

But those seven hours were nothing to her, because the last time she had seen her son was almost five years ago.

April 2019

Reactivation of the India-Australia intercountry adoption program

Australia is reactivating the India-Australia intercountry adoption program using a careful, staged approach.

During the initial stage of the reactivation, two jurisdictions – Queensland and Northern Territory (NT) – will be assessing a small number of people and forwarding files of suitable applicants to the Indian adoption authority for consideration and action.

The remaining state and territory governments will monitor processes and be guided by key learnings before determining their future involvement.

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Holt International & WACAP Merge to Strengthen Resources, Impact for Families Worldwide

Phil Littleton, president and CEO of Holt International, shares about the merger of Holt International and World Association for Parents and Children (WACAP).

Today, we are making an exciting announcement that will better position Holt International to do the mission-critical, child welfare work at the heart of our organization. Holt will merge with World Association for Parents and Children (WACAP) — a highly respected international adoption and child welfare agency — under the name Holt International Children’s Services on April 1, 2019.

Holt International first pioneered international adoption in 1956 and today remains the global leader in adoption. Founded in 1976, WACAP has united thousands of children with families in the U.S., and has also developed strong foster care and foster care adoption programs in the state of Washington. But while both Holt and WACAP have remained leaders in international adoption, the recent downward trend in adoption has called for a different strategy—one that creates a united front and a merging of efforts to ensure every child has a loving and secure home.

'My birth mother deserves an apology': Forced to give her up for adoption, Liz Wilde's mum Valerie was told it would spell the end of her status as a 'fallen woman'

Forced to give her up for adoption, Liz Wilde’s mother Valerie was told it would spell the end of her troubles as a ‘fallen woman’. But decades later, Liz would discover it was just the beginning of a lifetime of heartbreak

My birth mother Valerie was never meant to see me cradled in my adoptive mother’s arms.

This was very much against protocol.

As agreed, at 2pm on Wednesday 26 February 1964, she had brought me to the London offices of the National Children Adoption Association to meet my new parents. I was dressed immaculately in one of the many outfits she had knitted for me. ‘We could tell that you were loved,’ a friend of my adoptive mother told me many years later.

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Adoption in Romania in the international context of 1980-1990

Put adoption back in the international context of the time

Since the 1980s, the demand for children to adopt from rich countries is 10 times higher than the number of children given to adoption by poor countries.

Adoption represents a powerful lobbying, which in Western Europe as in the United States, Canada and Israel is able to exert regular pressure on the countries providing child through their governments.

- Between 1981 and 1987: Romania allocates to French families barely more than 500 children. [1]