Attempt to get points for adoptions - under the Romanian pointsystem, the number of adoptable children were dependent of points for humanitarian aid

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Simon Mordue, Mariela Neague, Daniela Gheorghe, Chris Walker

Roelie Post (took the picture)

SERA REPORT July 1999

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Friday, June 25, 1999

Ron Federici

Child-lifting racket busted in Salem - by Our Special Correspondent

SALEM, JUNE 16. The Salem city police have busted a major child lifting racket that is likely to have far-reaching implications. Four infants, stolen straight from hospital were recovered and five persons, including three women were arrested.

At a press conference, Mr.V.Jegannathan, Commissioner, said this was the first time in Salem police had received complaints of infants missing from hospital, that too accidentally.

Rapist nun led team to Romanian orphanage.

AN Irish nun, who helped rape and terrify a 10-year-old girl, was later allowed to lead a cross-border mercy mission to a Romanian orphanage.

And evil Nora Wall - dubbed Sister Anti-Christ by her helpless victim - made a major impression on members of the British government funded Belfast Action Team which organised the trip.

They provided her with a glowing testimonial saying they would have "no hesitation whatsoever" in involving her in any of their future programmes.

Now a full investigation is expected to be launched.

The Sister of No Mercy

Published 12/06/1999 | 00:11

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salon.com > Mothers Who Think July 9, 1999

URL: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/07/09/adoption

All you need is love -- and a marriage license

If Jesse Helms has his way, new legislation could limit international adoptions for everyone but married straight couples.

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Copyright © by Amy Klatzkin

In September, 1998 a small delegation representing the Foundation for Chinese Orphanages (FCO)—a nonprofit organization founded by Families with Children from China/New England to help orphanage children in China—traveled to Hubei province as the guests of the provincial Civil Affairs Bureau to monitor the use of funds provided by the foundation. Amy Klatzkin wrote this article as part of a series on the group’s visit to six orphanages around the province.

The current Chinese adoption law, which will be superseded in April 1999 by new and more lenient regulations, was passed at the end of 1991. In its wake a limited number of orphanages in China opened to international adoption, most for the first time. The law’s restrictions applied equally to Mainland Chinese and foreigners: to adopt a healthy infant from an orphanage, the parent or parents had to be over 35 and childless. Parents with children by birth or adoption were required to adopt “special needs” children (although this regulation was not always enforced, particularly for foreigners). Beginning in April, both Chinese and foreigners over age 30 will be permitted to adopt healthy infants even if they have children already, and things will be different then.

Why the tough regulations up to now? Like many social policy decisions in China, the 1991 adoption law was largely an instrument of population planning. The law was crafted to keep adoption from being used as a way around birth restrictions. At the same time, international adoption was seen as a way to curb an increasingly dire situation in the nation’s orphanages, where rising rates of abandonment—mostly of healthy infant girls—was causing severe and dangerous overcrowding of under- funded, ill-equipped social welfare institutions.