Conclusions my report April 10, 2010:

During these intense contacts and after thorough research together with the consul of the Belgian embassy, ??there appears to be no reason to adopt Ethiopia's adoption policy to review and I could not determine that serious mistakes were made. It is clear that in Ethiopia it is important that the principles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This does not mean that a number of aspects cannot be prepared more closely and that number of elements can be refined.

Proposals and areas for improvement:

1. It is necessary to go through the procedures more strictly and double-check all elements; better fewer adoptions than a risky adoption

Werd als Wivina De Meyer geboren te Aalst op 13 december 1943
Gehuwd met Paul Demeester
Moeder van 4 kinderen, 8 kleinkinderen
Landbouwkundig ingenieur van opleiding
Oprichtster (in 1973) van Monnikenheide, dienstencentrum voor personen met een mentale handicap
In 2004 zette ze een punt achter haar politieke carrière, na dertig jaar parlementair mandaat
www.demeester.com

‘Politici moeten minder in de kranten komen’

Uit de schijnwerpers van de actieve politiek gooit Wivina Demeester haar volle gewicht – wat vooral figuurlijk veel waard is – tegenwoordig in de weegschaal voor andere engagementen. De culturele en de welzijnssector kunnen op haar rekenen. Maar ook financieel-economische uitdagingen zoals het beheren van bouwsubsidies voor scholen gaat ze niet uit de weg. Wat ze doet, doet ze met passie, gedreven door dienstbaarheid.

Aangekochte reportage over de illegale adoptie van Roemeense kinderen aan kapitaalkrachtige echtparen uit vooral het buitenland. Niet alleen sommige geprivatiseerde kindertehuizen maken zich daar schuldig aan en verdienen er veel geld mee, maar ook ouders die arm zijn of op geld belust bieden hun baby's ter adoptie of direct te koop aan. STUDIO-INTERVIEW hierover met R. Hoksbergen, adoptiedeskundige van de Universiteit van Utrecht. Volgens hem is er geen illegale adoptie naar Nederland. In het algemeen doen geadopteerde Roemeense kinderen het steeds beter in Nederland.

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PS 021 856

Carroll, Jan; Williams, Sarah

Care for Children International, Inc. (a non-profit corporation organized under I.R.C. sec. 501 (c) (3))

Prepared by Dr. Ronald Steven Federici, Developmental Neuropsychologist
President, Care for Children International, Inc.

Deinstitutionalization Of Orphans And Restructuring Of Romanian Child Welfare Programs

Historical Data 

Romanian Child Welfare reform has been a long and arduous process with limited success. Over the past 10 years since the fall of communism, numerous humanitarian aid groups in addition to millions of dollars in federal aid have been spent in an attempt to provide assistance to the Romanian government to restructure Romanian institutions which have been renowned as being highly deprived and damaging care centers for children. Numerous international documentaries have focused on the plight of Romanian orphans and the horrendous conditions these orphans reside in due to a long legacy of improper categorization of the children; continual influx of children into institutional settings due to poverty and socio-economic problems in addition to a lack of consistency and continuity within the Romanian Child Welfare departments of labor, Education and Handicaps. 

  Michael Gravelle and the kid's bedrooms

http://www.clevescene.com/2007-03-07/news/the-exorcists/

By Jared Klaus

The gallery in Judge Earl McGimpsey's courtroom is here to see a hanging.

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Adoptive Parents Win Battle for Russian Girls

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE

An Arizona couple found guilty of slapping and verbally abusing their newly adopted Russian children on a plane trip home from Moscow last May were granted full custody of the children yesterday.

The two girls, now 5 years old, have bounced around for the last nine months in five different foster homes in the United States while charges were pending against the parents, Richard and Karen Thorne.

Today's ruling means that the girls will have the permanent home they were promised when the Thornes removed them from their orphanage in the rural village of Voronezh, about 290 miles southeast of Moscow.

USA TODAY

Author: Daniela Deane

Six years after the fall of the Soviet empire opened the East Bloc to Americans seeking children to adopt, a small but growing number of parents are giving their new children up.

They say their adopted kids have psychological problems too difficult to handle. The children are unable to bond with their new parents and are destructive, even dangerous.

Others say the fault lies with the adoptive mothers and fathers, many of whom are older, first-time parents. They say these new parents have unreal expectations of what their adopted children will be like and haven't given the kids enough time to get used to their new lives in America.

News / GTA

Romanian reunion with a birth mother thought dead

“The Romanian government stole and sold me,” says Canadian-reared woman who finds the parent she was told was dead.

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