9 MARCH 2010

bad news

Well, the news out of Bulgaria is bad news :(

Since our case was assigned to a judge that is not "adoption friendly",

we have, of course, already run in to a problem with completing the adoption.

Volcano Complicates Adoption of Child With Down Syndrome

Monday April 19, 2010

There's been a lot in the news lately about ash from the volcano in Iceland wreaking havoc on European air travel, and a lot in the news lately about Eastern European adoption gone awry. Cross those two stories, and what do you get? Two women trapped in a Bulgarian hotel room with a just-adopted special-needs child and no way to get home.

Leah Spring, who writes about her daughter with Down syndrome and other family matters on the blog Garden of Eagan, went to Sofia, Bulgaria, in early April to assist in the adoption of a boy who has Down syndrome and a heart condition; check on other children in orphanages who need forever families; and talk with Bulgarian families who have chosen -- despite a lack of social support -- to raise their own children with DS. Plans were for Leah, adoptive mom Shelley Bedford, and newly adopted Kullen to return on April 18.

Then Eyjafjallajokull started filling European skies with sticky ash and European airports with grounded jets.

Bulgaria's disturbing baby market

By Rosie Goldsmith

BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents

As Bulgaria prepares to join the EU, there are certain issues it has to tackle, not least its murky underworld where even babies are for sale.

The selling of babies is a growing business across Eastern Europe

Parliamentary questions

4 March 2010

E-1084/10

WRITTEN QUESTION by Cristiana Muscardini (PPE) to the Commission

Subject: Abandoned children in Romania

CE va "urmari indeaproape" situatia adoptiilor internationale din Romania

Publicat: 28 Aprilie 2010 @ 14:36

Viviane Reding, vicepresedinte al Comisiei Europene si comisar pentru justitie, libertate si securitate, a raspuns unei intrebari a unui europarlamentar roman, legata de adoptii. Comisarul nu da curs cererii de a se pozitiona impotriva liberalizarii adoptiilor internationala in Romania, dar promite ca in orice decizie sa primeze interesele copiilor.

Europarlamentarul Sabin Cutas a primit, marti, raspunsul vicepresedintei Comisiei Europene Viviane Reding, care este comisarul pentru justitie, libertate si securitate, la scrisoarea adresata de Cutas privind liberalizarea adoptiilor internationale in contextul conferintei Comisiei Europene si a Consiliului Europei cu tema "Provocari ale procedurilor de adoptie in Europa".

Prin scrisoare, Sabin Cutas atragea atentia asupra cazului Romaniei si cerea CE sa nu sustina liberalizarea adoptiilor internationale in aceasta tara. onform raspunsului oferit de comisarul european, "participantii la conferinta au fost informati asupra principiilor care formeaza Conventia din 1993 privind adoptiile internationale, asupra aplicarii acesteia si a rezultatelor studiilor comparate lansate recent de catre Comisia Europeana si Parlamentul European".

Metro Atlanta / State News 4:53 a.m. Monday, April 26, 2010

Nonprofit adoption agencies often profit someone other than children, families

AJC investigation: Big portions of agency budgets go to top executives

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FERMATHE, HAITI—Her name is not Jonatha — that’s the first surprise. It’s Lovely.

The second surprise, and this is the big one, is that the 2-year-old girl plucked from the rubble of her home six days after the earthquake is not an orphan. She has a big family — a mother, a father, aunts and uncles, cousins, and a little brother whom she likes to tickle and sing to, unless he’s trying to grab her red marker.

Kay Warren Questions Christianity of Persons who Neglect Orphans

Don't call yourself a believer if you're not caring for orphans, said Kay Warren. "If we are doing little to nothing, how dare we, how dare we claim to be followers of Jesus Christ."

Sat, Apr. 24, 2010 Posted: 11:10 AM EDT

Friday, November 21, 2003

Hawaii hosts Marshallese baby market

Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Kristen Sawada Pacific Business News

Hawaii has emerged as a staging ground for Marshallese women who come here to give birth and relinquish their newborns to American adoptive parents.

It has become a free enterprise marketplace for Marshallese babies -- a lucrative industry that has skyrocketed since the late 1990s.

Autoritatile nu detin nici un fel de informatie despre situatia zecilor de mii de copii adoptati de straini in perioada 1990-1997

Misterul copiilor pierduti de Romania: "Nu stim care au fost adoptati"

Andreea Pocotila

Luni, 11 Ianuarie 2010

» Bucurestiul a pierdut urma a zeci de mii copii adoptati de straini intre 1990 si 1997.