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The False Prophet of Adoption

Using Babies as Bait, Montecito’s Orson Mozes’s Led 17 Families on Global Goose Chases

Grace C. Horton, 88, Dies; Philanthropist Worked With Refugees and Low-Income Families

GRACE C. HORTON, 88

Grace C. Horton, 88, Dies; Philanthropist Worked With Refugees and Low-Income Families

Grace C. Horton helped start what is now Health Share of St. Mary's. (Family Photo)

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Reconciliation Without Borders

By Han Boon-young

Twenty-seven years ago, in one of the famous prison letters to his wife, Kim Dae-jung brought up the issue of transnational adoption from Korea.

While contemplating the moral aspects of inter-country adoption in a time of economic growth and national prosperity, he was equally moved by the existential struggle of the adoptees returning to Korea and ashamed of the nation's reckless abandonment of its sons and daughters.

 

During the long years in opposition and exile from his own country, Kim and his wife had many opportunities to meet with individuals and representatives from communities around the world.

US lawmakers urge easier Guatemalan adoptions

US lawmakers urge easier Guatemalan adoptions

(AFP) – 19 hours ago

WASHINGTON — US lawmakers have called on their government to ease red tape that has slowed the adoption of Guatemalan children since legal reforms were introduced to more strictly regulate the process.

In a letter, 52 legislators asked US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to ensure Guatemalan measures aimed at curbing baby selling were "being carried out in a way that protects the interests of children, birth parents, and adoptive parents alike."

Signatories said that since the reforms passed adoptions have stagnated "forcing the children involved to remain in institutions or temporary care," with would-be parents bombarded with requests for information.

K&T stopt met bemiddeling VS

K&T stopt met bemiddeling VS

Deelbemiddeling VS

Op maandag 24 augustus heeft Stichting Kind en Toekomst zowel de heer Michael Goldstein als mevr. Tara Gutterman (ARC) geïnformeerd dat de stichting alle inspanningen om tot een contract met hen te komen voor reguliere procedures beëindigt.

Na vele jaren van onderhandelingen kon Stichting Kind en Toekomst alleen maar constateren dat de nodige transparantie en openheid in communicatie uitbleef waardoor gevoelige maar zeer belangrijke onderwerpen onvoldoende bespreekbaar bleven.

Voor het aangaan van een contract voor reguliere procedures wil en kan Stichting Kind en Toekomst de verantwoording daardoor niet dragen.

Blogs Closed-per Neplai Ministry

Blogs Closed-per Neplai Ministry

The Nepali Ministry has told adoptive families that they should not post pictures of their newly adopted children on their blogs. A a result, the blogs I posted in my last blog posting are now unavailable. However, one family is maintaining a separate blog just for those people waiting to adopt from Nepal. You can follow it at:

http://nepaladoptionrumors.blogspot.com

Himes, Johnson, Federici, Zeanah, et al ( Romanian Adoption Project)

Himes, Johnson, Federici, Zeanah, et al (

Romanian Adoption Project), Growth and Sexual Maturation

In Romanian Orphanages. Journal of pediatrics and

Neurology, September, 2009

http://www.specialneedskidsinfo.com/Virginiapsychologists.html

Costs adoption Kind en Toekomst

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THE NORDIC APPROACH TO INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION

THE NORDIC APPROACH TO INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION

is based on the rights of the child and higher ethical standards in intercountry adoption

The Nordic Adoption Council’s Conference 2009 on intercountry Adoption took place in Iceland from 3th to 6th of September. Present at the Conference were all of the NAC-members, who represent all but one of the Nordic organizations, i.e. the organizations from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and Denmark, accredited to work with intercountry adoptions plus parents organizations from some of the countries. The Conference agreed upon the following joint global venture in intercountry adoption context, based on the ambition to put children’s rights and higher ethics at the forefront of the agenda when it comes to practices and basic rules in intercountry adoption.

The background is well known: intercountry adoption is under increasing pressure due to the fact, that more and financially strong receiving countries have dramatically increased their number of approved families for adoption, while many of the traditional countries of origin have either put restrictions or barriers upon intercountry adoption or have closed up their intercountry adoption programmes completely due to better living conditions in the country, increased domestic adoption or - in worst case - excessive pressure from potential adoptive families resulting in scandals involving trafficking.

The Nordic organizations have – globally - the longest experience in mediating in intercountry adoption due to the fact, that intercountry adoption became a recognized social and legal phenomenon in the Nordic countries already some years after the Second World War. At the conference celebrated in Iceland, the Nordic Adoption Organizations – many of whom have celebrated 40 years’ anniversary - agreed on the following standpoints to secure intercountry adoption processes based on ethics and responsibility: