Wartime orphans of shame unite

Published Date: 19 July 2009

By John Tagliabue in Paris

WHEN Jacques Roquencourt handles photographs, he does so with delicate hands. An accomplished aerospace engineer, he has spent his life building things like airborne radar systems. He is also one of France's foremost experts on early photography, particularly the work of Daguerre.

But when a package of photographs arrived recently from Freiburg, Germany, he handled them with special delicacy – if investigations under way bear fruit, one of the men in the black and white photos, taken in the 1930s, will prove to be the father wADVERTISEMENT

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Adopted kids stranded in Ethiopia

Ardrossan family plans rescue trip despite government advice to wait

BY JAMIE HALL, EDMONTON JOURNALJULY 18, 2009

Mark Kostelyk will fly Monday to Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa to bring his two newly adopted children home with him to Ardrossan.

Kostelyk and his wife, Sharla, are among about 400 Canadian families, including six from Alberta, whose adoptions through Ontario-based Imagine Adoption are in limbo after its collapse earlier this week.

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After spending over two years going through the adoption process a local family are worried about actually getting their kids to Canada after the bankruptcy of their agency: Imagine Adoption.

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The damage caused by the bankruptcy of a Cambridge-based international adoption agency this week cannot be reckoned in dollars alone. It must be measured in human heartbreak and dashed human hopes, and from this perspective the cost is absolutely staggering.

At this very moment in Africa, South America and the Caribbean, dozens of children who were waiting to come to new homes in Canada face an uncertain future because of the bankruptcy filing by Kids Link International Adoption Agency, which operated under the name Imagine Adoption. Imagine how fearful some of them must be.

And at this very moment, up to 450 families from across Canada who have invested time, energy, emotion and, in many cases $20,000, are torn by confusion and doubt because they do not know if their dreams of adoption, which they may have worked years to achieve, will ever happen. Imagine their anger and pain.

Agency’s collapse crushes adoption dream

Couples left in lurch by bankruptcy

BY KRISTY NEASE, THE OTTAWA CITIZENJULY 17, 2009 12:01 AM

OTTAWA-Three years ago, Christine Côté of Orléans was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome and was told that having children was an impossibility.

Côté and her husband Jean-François, both 38, have had family experience with adoption, so that made their decision easy. They wanted a family, no matter the cost.

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Susan Hayhow's stonework century home in Cambridge, Ont., is the envy of her neighbours. With an indoor hot tub, manicured backyard and top-of-the-line appliances, it's perfectly appointed – much like Ms. Hayhow, who appears neatly coiffed and well-dressed in the dozens of photos posted to the websites of her adoption agency and charity. They show Ms. Hayhow during her frequent trips, handing out toys to children in Ecuador and posing in the lobby of the luxurious Sheraton hotel in Ethiopia's capital.

Agency’s collapse crushes adoption dream

Couples left in lurch by bankruptcy

BY KRISTY NEASE, THE OTTAWA CITIZENJULY 17, 2009 12:01 AM

OTTAWA-Three years ago, Christine Côté of Orléans was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome and was told that having children was an impossibility.

Côté and her husband Jean-François, both 38, have had family experience with adoption, so that made their decision easy. They wanted a family, no matter the cost.