February 27, 2010

The single adoptive mum

Seven years ago, desperate for a baby, Jane Clarke went to India

Jane Clarke with her adopted daughter Maya

Penny Wark

Caring for vulnerable children

Caring for very sick children

UK

£20,000

From refurbishing children’s bedrooms and a medical treatment room, to purchasing specialist equipment and supporting annual running costs, the Halcrow Foundation has helped St Martin’s children hospice in Yorkshire over a number of years.

Haiti's children held hostage by UNICEF's agenda

Posted: February 26, 2010

1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

By the age of 8, Bernard had been living alone as a beggar on the streets of Haiti for more than a year. His mother abandoned him when he was 7. He has not seen her since. Two weeks ago, Dr. John Leininger, president of Harvest International and long-time veteran of Haitian orphan relief, found Bernard. The boy was begging, hungry, filthy and covered in scabies, a contagious skin disease caused by a species of mite that burrow in the skin and create rashes, sores and extreme itching. With Bernard's consent, he was taken to the orphanage for medical treatment, food and some TLC. He has not left since.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Sad state of adoption in Australia

Australians have the option of adopting internationally from 14 different countries. As I mentioned late last year, the Ethiopia program is currently suspended pending investigation and a decision by the Attorney General. Other programs are now dropping like flies. Philippines have placed a moratorium on adoption of children 24 months and younger. The Fiji program is on hold until a bilateral agreement can be reached.

Some countries have placed small quotas on the number of files it will accept from Australia this year (for example, Lithuania will only accept TWO files from each central authority for adoption of children under age 6), and other countries have obscene waiting times (for example, China is nearly up to four years from the time they receive your file, and all indicators suggest it is going to get much worse before it gets better.)

Local adoption is so scarce it is almost non-existent.

Get a womb: Gay couples outsource Indian mothers

By Saritha Rai - GlobalPost

Published: February 26, 2010 09:55 ET

BANGALORE, India — In a building smack in the middle of chaotic Hyderabad, an hour’s flight from Bangalore, 29-year-old American Brad Fister recently got acquainted with the delirious joy of first-time parenthood.

Fister and his partner Michael Griebe, who own a computer business in Kentucky, contracted a womb from an Indian surrogate mother thousands of miles away in Hyderabad. Their daughter Ashton, conceived in a laboratory out of Fister’s sperm and an anonymous donor’s egg, was born in mid-February.

GOOGLE TRANSLATION:

GOOGLE TRANSLATION

Breath again for adoptions of Nepalese children. Held

Thursday, February 25 the meeting convened by the Commission for Adoptions

International (CAI) with representatives of institutions authorized

Friday, February 26, 2010

PEAR Statement on Nepal Adoptions

PEAR Statement on Nepal Adoptions

The country of Nepal reopened its intercountry adoption program in January of 2009 after closing in 2007 due to allegations of trafficking and corruption. At the time it reopened, PEAR was cautiously optimistic that Nepal would be able to follow this new program and adoptions would be transparent, ethical and in the best interests of children. Our two major concerns were whether Nepal had adequate processes in place to protect children from needlessly entering into the intercountry adoption system, and the inclusion of numerous large, mandatory fees/donations and the possible corrupting influence this would have on decisions to place children for intercountry adoption. These fees include a $10,000 per agency per year fee to the Nepali government (the Ministry is currently requesting that this money goes to the Child's Rights Fund via direct donation to CNFN), a $5,000 per adoption donation to the orphanage or Children's Home caring for the child prior to adoption, and a $3,000 fee per child to the government of Nepal.

Since the reopening of adoptions, over 500 dossiers have been registered with the Nepali government by families hoping to adopt a child. Only 22 adoptions have been finalized with another 40 or so prospective adoptive families being matched with a child. Those matches occurred in the summer and fall of 2009 and have sat in limbo with the Nepal adoption authorities ever since. According to the US State Department, seven of those matches were to families in the US and though the GON has promised movement on those cases since late January or early February, nothing has happened. No invitations to travel have been received by matched families and no new matches have been made.

Questions surround status of Haitian kids in Pa

PITTSBURGH — A spokesman says Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell didn't know

several children he accompanied from earthquake-ravaged Haiti to the

United States might not even have been slated for adoption.

The Homeland Security Department says 12 of the more than 50 children

25-02-2010 - Aanvulling op nieuwsbericht Adoptie uit Ethiopië, 19-02 Naar aanleiding van het bericht van vrijdag is er een aantal vragen bij Wereldkinderen binnengekomen die wij graag willen beantwoorden. Wat is de reden dat Wereldkinderen nogmaals onderzoek wil verrichten, als de gevolgde procedure tot nu toe als betrouwbaar werd gezien en het Ministerie van Justitie dit niet eist? Het onderzoek waar hier op gedoeld wordt, is de controle van de achtergrondgegevens van de kinderen in het fosterhuis, waar de hele tijd al sprake van is, in samenwerking met het Ministerie van Women Affairs in Ethiopie. Het Ministerie van Justitie in Nederland heeft toegestemd in het hervatten van de procedures onder de voorwaarde dat bovenstaand onderzoek (controle) per dossier is afgerond. Waarom kiest Wereldkinderen ervoor om dit onderzoek samen met MOWA uit te voeren? Het Ministerie van Women Affairs fungeert als centrale autoriteit en is daarom vanzelfsprekend betrokken Waarom heeft Wereldkinderen niet al eerder zelf onderzoek gedaan? Gedeeltelijk had Wereldkinderen al zelf onderzoek gedaan en deze kinderen zijn inmiddels voorgesteld voor adoptie en naar Nederland gekomen. Na het bezoek aan Ethiopie met het Ministerie van Justitie, Stichting Afrika en Wereldkinderen is afgesproken met Mowa dat de controle van de achtergrondgegevens van de kinderen die nu nog in het fosterhuis van Wereldkinderen verblijven met hen samen gedaan zou worden. Stichting Afrika had voor deze tijd al deze controles al afgerond. Wereldkinderen heeft een groter aantal kinderen in het tehuis. Wat is de geschatte omvang en tijdsplanning van het onderzoek? Vanuit Ethiopie is bekend geworden dat alle dossiers van de nog aanwezige kinderen in het fosterhuis zijn opgehaald. Hier is uit af te leiden dat de controle is begonnen. Er is geen indicatie te geven hoe lang dit gaat duren. Er is op tal van momenten aangegeven dat de verkiezingen voor vertragingen kunnen zorgen. Zodra er nieuws is, zullen wij via de website hierover berichten. Worden er vanaf nu weer nieuwe kinderen in het tehuis opgenomen? Op dit moment ligt de prioriteit bij de controle van de in het tehuis verblijvende kinderen en worden er geen kinderen in het tehuis opgenomen. http://www.wereldkinderen.nl/site.php?id=nl_news&nieuws_id=329

Burnley mum fails to prevent child's adoption

9:00pm Thursday 25th February 2010

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