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The Speed Up Rumor

The Speed Up Rumor

The rumored speed up from the beginning of the year said it should happen this fall. A lot of agencies were saying the same thing – that the CCAA said they would refer more babies in 2009 than they did in 2008, and that the numbers should pick up in the fall.

I’m now hearing a few agencies say that they aren’t so sure a fall speed up is going to happen. I don’t know if the CCAA has told them this outright, or hinted at it, or if they just aren’t talking about it anymore… or what. One agency goes so far as to say that they don’t have high hopes that things are going to pick up this fall, and that if it does not then they do not think the CCAA will ever pick their numbers back up.

My biggest question right now is… why did the CCAA make these statements to the agencies? Surely they truly believed what they were saying? And if so, then what happened that is making some of the agencies start trying to prepare their clients that it may not happen?

I absolutely do not think the agencies made it up. I think the agencies reported what they were told. I have the utmost respect for at least three of the agencies who reported this, and I do not believe they would have reported it if they didn’t believe what they were told. We had over a dozen agencies who reported having a similar conversation with the CCAA. I don’t know if the blame is with the CCAA or the MoCA, but I’m not blaming the agencies. If we want them to share with us what they hear from the CCAA then we can’t very well get mad at them for doing so. Can we?

International adoption resumes for Nepalese children

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International adoption resumes for Nepalese children

Thu, 10 Sep 18:37 PM IST

By Gopal Sharma

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three U.S. couples were on Thursday the first to take Nepalese children since the Himalayan nation ended an international adoption suspension, which took effect two years ago amid reports of widespread corruption.

Ethiopia – Single Applicants

Ethiopia – Single Applicants – 10 September 2009

The Department has been advised by the Ethiopian Ministry of Woman’s Affairs (MoWA) that no further adoption applications from single applicants will be accepted. This applies to any potential applications from single persons yet to be approved by State and Territory Central Authorities, including those who have lodged adoption applications and are currently under assessment.

MoWA has agreed that existing applications already approved by State and Territories can be progressed. This includes those applications lodged with the Australian Representatives in Ethiopia, and those approved and waiting with Central Authorities.

If you have any queries regarding your adoption application, please contact your State or Territory Central Authority.

KYRGYZSTAN: ADOPTION REFORM LEAVES KYRGYZ ORPHANS, AMERICAN FAMILIES, IN LIMBO

KYRGYZSTAN: ADOPTION REFORM LEAVES KYRGYZ ORPHANS, AMERICAN FAMILIES, IN LIMBO

Laurie Rich 9/10/09

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Last November, Suzanne Boutilier was sitting outside a Kyrgyz orphanage, cradling the slight 6-month-old baby girl she was set to adopt. She sang to her daughter-to-be and kept returning to a Carly Simon tune with the chorus "Lovin’ you is the right thing to do," and every time she came to the line "Even though you’re 10,000 miles away," she would sob.

In a few days Boutilier would be back in California, and the baby she had been waiting five months to finish adopting would remain at the orphanage. Now, more than a year after she was first matched with the little girl by an international adoption agency -- and told she’d likely be able to bring her home in eight weeks -- she is still waiting. And by all accounts, there is no telling when her wait will end.

Forum Joint Council Update: Program Child Permanency and Welfare

Joint Council Update

Program Child Permanency and Welfare

Date September 9, 2009

Regarding Nepal

Dear Colleagues,

Couple sold girl to raise sons

Sep 9, 2009

Couple sold girl to raise sons

 BEIJING - A COUPLE in Beijing has been tried on charges of trafficking children after they allegedly sold their newborn daughter to raise money to help rear their two sons, state media reported on Wednesday.
The migrant couple is accused of selling their daughter to a middleman for 10,000 yuan (S$2,086) in January as they left the Beijing hospital where she was born, the Beijing Times said.
The middleman is facing similar charges after he sold the girl to another couple for 21,000 yuan, it said.
The three were tried in a Beijing court on Tuesday, but no verdict was reached, the report said.
'Give me back my child, you cheat,' Zhao Zhongying, the mother of the child, was quoted as shouting at middleman Wang Jianjun, an illegal taxi driver, as she entered the courtroom. 'I never wanted to sell my child. I only wanted to find a good home for her.'
Wang allegedly arranged the sale of the child after Zhao's husband complained about the financial difficulties the family was in while riding in Wang's car.
'I thought if we could sell the girl, we could save money to raise our two boys,' the paper quoted the husband as saying.
Trafficking of women and children remains common in China, with many cases often linked to the country's 'one-child' birth control policy.
Young women are also often forced into marriages or prostitution.
During a four-month period ending in August, Chinese police arrested more than 800 suspected human traffickers and freed nearly 3,400 women and children, state media reported earlier. -- AFP
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_427445.html

NUEVA LEY DE ADOPCIÓN

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NUEVA LEY DE ADOPCIÓN 
Por Ramón Ciuca Díaz.

NUEVA LEY DE ADOPCIÓN .
Por Ramón Ciuca Díaz.

El Senado aprobó el pasado 9 de septiembre, la ley de adopción de niños por parejas homosexuales, por 17 votos en 23. Esta ley convierte al Uruguay en el primer país en América Latina en permitir este tipo de adopciones. Hasta el momento de preparar este artículo faltaba la promulgación del Ejecutivo. Si bien personalmente no tomo posición respecto al tema de manera específica, si lo haré desde la perspectiva de la opinión, y a todo esto veremos que actitud asume el Dr. Vázquez pues recordemos que en una actitud, valga la reiteración, casi puritana, vetó en su momento la ley de aborto. Tal vez en esta oportunidad no lo haga, por el simple hecho de encontrarnos en plena campaña electoral, y un veto en este contexto no cabe duda de que se ve mal. Como bien sabemos, aquí todo se politiza de una forma o de otra. 

Ese hecho lo colocó frente a la sociedad laíca, como un fenómeno atentatorio del sistema, ya que se puso del lado de la Iglesia, institución esta que por su naturaleza defiende el derecho a la vida, condenando por consiguiente que se le quite la misma a todo ser humano. Evidentemente que esta es la tesitura de la Iglesia moderna. No es el caso ahora poner en el tapete esto, lo cual traje a colación debido a que la misma también está en contra de la homosexualidad, y si tenemos en cuenta la alineación existente entre la institución y el Dr. Vázquez, resultaría seguro que la vetara. 

Pero salgamos de este escenario para introducirnos en otros ribetes. Podemos apreciar que desde el punto de vista psicológico, se aduce que tener dos padres del mismo sexo no es bueno para la formación de un niño. No dudo de que sea así. Pero tampoco es bueno que una pareja de padres etéreo sexuales, estén constantemente realizando episodios de violencia, ya sea entre si, o hacia el niño. Este argumento es el manejado por los homosexuales, para justificar su solicitud de adopción, y lamentablemente creo que tienen razón. 

Digo lamentablemente por cuanto vemos que diariamente sucede en todos los estratos sociales. Hoy ya no existe prácticamente lo que podríamos considerar normal. El concepto de normalidad pasó a formar parte solamente del vocabulario. Nos encontramos con el hecho paradojal, de que para muchos niños les resulta anormal que los padres de sus compañeritos de clase vivan juntos, ya que los suyos hace tiempo que no, y ya tienen otra/o madre/padre conformando aquello de los míos, los tuyos, los nuestros. Se eliminó por consiguiente la escala de valores, dentro de lo que podríamos denominar como pareja tradicional. 

Quizás esos valores ahora estén en las parejas de homosexuales, y se den principalmente por temor a que se le quite en este caso, la potestad frente al niño. En términos poco académicos, deben hacer buena letra frente al INAU. Sabemos de la tremenda burocracia existente a la hora de adoptar un niño por parte de una pareja etéreo sexual. Me imagino lo que debe ser cuando lo hace una pareja homosexual, por cuanto las autoridades respectivas utilizarán todos los medios de observación disponibles, lo cual me parece acertado hasta cierto punto, pues con ello se dilata el tiempo de tramitación. 

Haciendo un poco de historia, debo decir que desde fines de la década de los 90, países de Europa, algunos estados en Norteamérica y otras regiones del mundo han autorizado a parejas homosexuales a adoptar legalmente niños, a los que se sumó el miércoles 9 de septiembre Uruguay, el primer país latinoamericano en darles este derecho. La legislación aprobada varía sustancialmente de país a país. En algunos casos se permite a las parejas homosexuales adoptar niños sin tener relación de parentesco con ellos, mientras que en otros sólo se permite a la pareja homosexual de un padre biológico adoptar al hijo de esa persona. 

Orphanage gives out 750 children for adoption

Orphanage gives out 750 children for adoption

The Proprietress of the Little Saints Orphanage, Lagos, Rev. Dele George, said that the orphanage gave out 750 orphans for adoption in the past nine years.

George disclosed this during the 2009 Orphan Child Concert, organised in Lagos by the House of Love Church, Lagos.

She said the figure represented about 70 per cent of the 1,080 children brought to the orphanage since its inception in 1994.

George was satisfied with the rate Nigerians adopted children, but said orphanages needed more support to take care of the orphans in their custody.

Ethiopia - Selling citizens, selling children and selling land

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Ethiopia - Selling citizens, selling children and selling land

Canadian families asked to bail out bankrupt adoption agency

Canadian families asked to bail out bankrupt adoption agency

WINNIPEG FREE PRESSSEPTEMBER 8, 2009

WINNIPEG — Hundreds of Canadians are being asked to put a price on children — by bailing out a bankrupt adoption agency.

About 350 Canadian families in the process of adopting overseas children were left in limbo when Cambridge, Ont.-based Kids Link International Adoption Agency, which operated as Imagine Adoption, was placed into bankruptcy on July 13 amid suspicions of fraud.

The families are working with bankruptcy trustee BDO Dunwoody to put together a proposal to rescue Imagine Adoption. They've been asked by the trustee to donate $4,000 each to help complete the agency's unfinished adoptions.