Court orders adopted Kenyan children taken away from foreign couples

By GAKUU MATHENGE

Updated Sunday, August 16th 2015

The High Court has stopped two Swedish couples and a Danish couple from taking three Kenyan children out of the country. This was after it was discovered that the minors were not abandoned orphans but had families.

Consequently, the court ordered the adoption proceedings stopped until an application filed by their birth families determined. Issuing the order on Friday, vacation judge Lady Justice Lydia Achode directed that the minors be placed under the care of the director of Children Services.

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USA pushes Congo to allow adoptions despite trafficking fears

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By Katy Migiro

NAIROBI, Aug 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Legislators in the United States are lobbying the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to give 400 adopted children exit visas, after it suspended international adoptions because of fears children were being trafficked.

Several African countries have stopped their children from being adopted by foreigners because of evidence that some of those involved in the business have been acting unethically.

No orphanages in Vilnius by 2020

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During the next five years, until 2020, Vilnius will try to reduce the number of infants and children living in institutions; and only in the most desperate cases, if foster parents cannot be found, the children will be housed in an orphanage, Vilnius City Council reports BC.

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Currently, there are around 330 children living in the capital city's orphanages.

Using hot sauce on boy for ‘Dr. Phil’ show was bid for attention, not discipline, court rules

By Martha Neil

Aug 3, 2015, 01:15 pm CDT

Determining what constitutes “reasonable parental discipline” can be difficult, because this standard is vague, argued an Alaska mom famous for forcing an adopted child to consume hot sauce as a punishment—and a state appellate court agreed.

But that wasn’t the issue in Jessica Beagley’s case, the Alaska Court of Appeals said, because a jury found she inflicted this punishment on her son in an effort to become a participant on the Dr. Phil show. Hence, it wasn’t discipline at all but a bid for publicity and Beagley was appropriately convicted of child abuse under an Anchorage municipal ordinance, the court ruled Wednesday.

Unity requires the rights of children in adoption debate

Unity requires much more focus on children in the new adoption law. Social Affairs supports

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Ethiopia

By Michael Roemer

STOPZETTEN ADOPTIES UIT ETHIOPIE

Met pijn in het hart hebben wij besloten om het adoptieprogramma in Ethiopië te sluiten.

Na 35 jaar samenwerking op het gebied van adoptie was dit geen gemakkelijk besluit. Nadat in 2010 het Wereldkinderen fosterhome sloot, werd Ethiopië vanaf juli 2012 voor ons een experimenteel contact. Dit vanwege onduidelijkheid over de voortgang van adoptieprocedures. Na drie jaar experimenteel contact is er nog altijd onduidelijkheid over procedures, geldstromen en subsidiariteitprincipes. Dit geeft teveel onzekerheid, zowel voor Wereldkinderen als voor aspirant adoptieouders. Op grond hiervan hebben wij besloten om per juli het kantoor van Wereldkinderen in Ethiopië te sluiten.

We zullen blijven voldoen aan de verplichting om de follow-up rapportages voor de Ethiopische autoriteiten in orde te maken.

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Kate Julie Nikki

Ethiopia Program Update

Dear families,

This is one of the most difficult updates that All God’s Children International has ever had to communicate. As an organization built on the principle of family, we have worked tirelessly to continue to provide loving families for orphaned children living in Ethiopia. That is why it is with a heavy heart that we inform you today that AGCI has made the difficult decision to close our adoption program in Ethiopia. Below we will share information regarding Kiersten’s recent trip and the cumulative information which led us to this difficult decision. In addition, we will provide options for your next steps as you seek God’s guidance for your family’s adoption journey.

Since 2007 AGCI has had the privilege of serving some of the most vulnerable children and families in the country of Ethiopia through our family preservation, orphan care and adoption programs. AGCI was able to help over 600 orphaned children unite with a loving family. AGCI worked with over 25 orphanages throughout nearly every region of Ethiopia. Sadly, inter-country adoptions in Ethiopia have continued to decrease in number. In addition, we have continued to witness first hand process changes and increased corruption that has had a devastating effect on orphans in Ethiopia. After years of working to navigate the Ethiopia adoption system, we believe we have come to a place where we have exhausted all viable options to place children and complete the adoption process in an ethical manner. It is especially difficult to reconcile this because the orphan crisis in Ethiopia continues. Children remain in institutions and families have been waiting to bring a child into their loving family. However, without confidence that we can practice ethical adoptions in the country we cannot, in good faith, continue to keep Ethiopia open as an active program.

BAAF to close as Coram assumes its key functions

By Neil Puffett

| 31 July 2015

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The British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) is to close with immediate effect, it has been announced.

ROMÂNIA REDESCHIDE ADOP?IILE C?TRE ITALIENI: 4.900 DE EURO PENTRU UN COPIL

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Pre?ul total pentru o adop?ie a unui copil român de c?tre italieni va fi de 4.900 de euro, sus?ine site-ul vita.it, citat de "Gazeta româneasc?".

Publica?ia italian? sus?ine c? un ONG italian, "Enzo B", a avut pe 30 iulie o întâlnire la Oficiul român pentru adop?ii (ORA), autoritate din subordinea Ministerului Muncii, Familiei, Protec?iei Sociale ?i Persoanelor Vârstnice.