Christianity becomes a driving force in adoptions

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July 03, 2009 5:00 PM

MARK BARNA

The Gazette

Girls seized, handed over for adoption

Foreign families paid officials and orphanages

Fiona Tam

Jul 02, 2009

About 80 newborn baby girls from a county in Guizhou have been confiscated from their parents by family planning officials since 2001 and handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of US$3,000 each, state media reported.

Adoption down, abandonment up

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Nina Nayak to head child rights panel

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Bangalore: The long-pending proposal to constitute the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has come to fruition with the Karnataka Government appointing well-known child rights activist Nina Nayak as its chairperson.

Ms. Nina Nayak is a former chairperson of the Child Welfare Committee in Bangalore, vice-president of the Indian Council for Child Welfare, and a member of the sub-committee on children in the Planning Commission.

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"Create" an abandoned child

Author: Bao Xiaodong original page: 2388 Time :2009-07-01

Revision: AT01 version Name: the depth of cover is issued on the weekly Source: Nanfang Dushi Abstract: ? Guizhou welfare Zhenyuan County will pay a fine of not be able to bounce back baby taken away by force ? in the notice referred to as "abandoned baby" ???abroad ???a profit every child welfare dollars to be sponsored by 3000;

? Zhenyuan County in Guizhou welfare penalty will not be able to bounce back to pay the baby taken away by force ? in the notice referred to as "abandoned baby" ? ???foreign profit per??a child welfare dollars to be sponsored by 3000;

? our reporter found that parents of embarrassing and numbness, is also one of the reasons for this??

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Reported theft of girls from families to give them up for adoption by foreigners

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About 80 babies in the province of Guizhou (southwestern China) were confiscated by authorities for family planning to parents who violated the one-child policy in the last eight years and given up for adoption to families from other countries, including Spain, announced today the independent press china.

Ethiopian kids in limbo as adoption agency folds

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A woman from B.C.'s southern Interior who is in Ethiopia to adopt two children is calling on the Canadian government to help dozens of children stranded by the bankruptcy of an adoption agency.

The Ontario-based agency Kids Link, which operates Imagine Adoption in Ethiopia, went bankrupt Monday, jeopardizing hundreds of potential adoptions for new parents.

Focus on China’s family planning laws

Ananth Krishnan

Officials accused of selling babies abroad

Each child was sold for around $3,000

BEIJING: Government officials in southern China have been accused of selling up to 80 babies taken from families who violated family planning laws in a scandal that has reignited the debate on China’s family planning policies and their enforcement.

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