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Adoption: A Love Story

by Deal Hudson - January 17, 2009

Reprinted with permission from our good friends at InsideCatholic.com, the leading online journal of Catholic faith, culture, and politics.

I was relaxing in my favorite armchair and watching golf when my daughter, Hannah, strode into the room. "Dad," she said, "we need to have a serious talk."

"Okay," I replied, turning to her.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Senator calls for agency to assist 20 adoptions from Vietnam

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Local couple waits as foreign government investigates adoption processes

By Kathleen Thurber

Staff Writer

Published: Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:58 PM CDT

After glancing down at her wristwatch to determine the date, Karla Kahler looked up and smiled slightly as she turned her head toward her husband Mike.

16 on trial in Vietnam adoption scandal

AFPSEPTEMBER 22, 2009

HANOI - Sixteen people accused of falsifying papers for adoption went on trial in Vietnam on Tuesday, in a case that raised fears of international human trafficking, a court official and local media said.

Among the accused are two directors of social welfare centres in northern Nam Dinh province, Thanh Nien newspaper reported. Doctors, nurses and local officials are also on trial, it said.

They are accused of "abuse of power in the exercise of their public missions", a court official in Nam Dinh said, requesting anonymity.

Doctors And Nurses 'Sold Hundreds Of Babies'

9:25am UK, Tuesday September 22, 2009

A baby-selling ring made up of doctors, nurses and welfare workers has gone on trial in northern Vietnam accused of selling more than 250 children for adoption.

US officials accuse Vietnam of failing to police its adoption system

The sixteen defendants are charged with "abuse of power and authority" and face up to 10 years in prison.

VICTIMS OF URUGUAY ADOPTION LAW: THE CHILDREN

Interview With President of Montevideo Institute of Bioethics

By Carmen Elena Villa

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, SEPT. 21, 2009 (Zenit.org).- This month, after having legalized the union of same-sex couples in 2007, Uruguay became the first Latin American country to allow homosexual couples to adopt.

The law, which polls show is rejected by the great majority of Uruguayans, is an offense to human nature, according to Uruguayan lawyer Gustavo Ordoqui Castilla.

Creditors vote to revive Imagine adoption agency

Mon, September 21, 2009

By PATRICK MALONEY, LONDON FREE PRESS

The hundreds of families stunned by the collapse of an international-adoption agency have renewed hope today, after voting overwhelmingly to re-start the organization.

The Imagine Adoption creditors, which includes the would-be adoptive families, voted 248-20 at a meeting Monday to approve the agency’s proposed restructuring — a plan that will cost each family $4,000 but promises to finish a process some started as long as two years ago.