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David Waters was shocked to find out that his mother had given up a baby, born before her marriage. But there were more shocks to come

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Haitis Kinder ( Film )

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Haitis Kinder sind in Gefahr: Nachdem die Erdbebenkatastrophe auch noch das dürftige Hab und Gut der Armen im ärmsten Land Lateinamerikas zerstört hat, geben Mütter und Väter reihenweise ihre Kinder an Fremde weg, freiwillig. Sie sind vollkommen verzweifelt. Dem SWR-Team ist es gelungen, mit einer versteckten Kamera eine junge Mutter, 28 Jahre, nach dem Warum zu fragen.

Why more and more adoptive parents pass the orphans back to the orphanage

A saleswoman urgently needed a child. She quickly processed the paper work and came to the orphanage in Moscow region. The fact is that every eligible parent must bring a document that he/she has no criminal background record takes over a month this woman was able to get it in few days. Lena was a lucky girl who went to be with this woman because she fit the criteria. Unfortunately in less than a month poor Lena was back in the same orphanage. Initially this woman took Lena only because she knew that the state was going to give her some financial tax break as a result of doing some charitable work by adopting orphan Lena. However, Lena did not work out for this woman so she simply returned to the state institution as if she had borrowed a book from the library.

Such case is not a lonely one. The government officials or orphanage staff would typically say, “What can we do?! The responsibility to control how former orphans are being raised in a family is not my task.

Double orphan status

Humanitarian catastrophe is becoming to sound more frequently in the Russian society. Since when did we come to a point when thousands of former orphans who were adopted are now being returned back to orphanages?

Most Adoptions From China Now Special-Needs Cases

Challenging special-needs cases make up growing share of adoptions from China

By DAVID CRARY

The Associated Press

NEW YORK

> 2010 > April Christianity Today, April, 2010 | |

WHERE WE STAND

210 Million Reasons to Adopt

Haiti's devastating quake reminds us that orphans matter to God.

A Christianity Today editorial | posted 4/07/2010 08:57AM

Special Humanitarian Parole Program for Haitian Orphans Draws to a Close at Request of Haitian GovernmentUSCIS Update

WASHINGTON – The Haiti government has requested that the United States provide them with a final list of orphans being considered under the Special Humanitarian Parole Program for Haitian Orphans. As a result, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will stop accepting new requests for consideration under the special program as of April 14, 2010, and will resume regular processing of intercountry adoptions.

USCIS believes the vast majority of adoption requests for orphans who meet the criteria of the special program have already been submitted. Since January 18, USCIS has authorized parole for more than 1,000 orphans under the special program, and as of April 5, approximately 340 cases are still being considered. The unprecedented program included safeguards to ensure that each child granted parole was truly available for adoption and had been matched to a suitable U.S. citizen for adoption.

In response to the emergency situation in Haiti following the January 12 earthquake, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano authorized the use of parole for two specific and limited groups of Haitian children:

Children who either had full and final adoptions completed by their U.S. parents before the earthquake and who were legally confirmed as eligible for intercountry adoption by the government of Haiti.

The Irish Times - Saturday, April 10, 2010

Russia puts Ireland on its blacklist for adoptions

Blacklisting reflects child welfare fears | 10/04/2010

JAMIE SMYTH, Social Affairs Correspondent

SEVERAL HUNDRED Irish couples attempting to adopt children in Russia could be blocked from completing the process following Moscow’s decision to put the Republic on a new “adoption blacklist”.

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Date: 01-04-10

Petition 1120/2009 on Romania’s fulfilment of international conventions on children’s rights

The Committee on Petitions of the European Parliament met the 22-23 of March 2010 to discuss and act on the request submitted by Amici dei Bambini through the petition No. 1120/2009 to take all measures necessary to ensure that the Romanian authorities recognise intercountry adoption as a legitimate and necessary way of finding families for abandoned children who could no be adopted in Romania.

The first petitioner, the President of Amici dei Bambini Marco Griffini, explained in his speech the reasons behind the petition and his disappointment for the lack of action of the Romanian Government for coping with the worrying conditions of Romanian abandoned children, whose number cannot be “absorbed” by the national adoption.

Published Thursday April 8, 2010

Kyrgyzstan ‘family-oriented'

By Juan Perez Jr.

WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Neil Moseman and his wife, Maureen, never encountered tumult or violence in two visits to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek.