Print Issue: February 28, 1980

Sisters From Peru Find Home

By Lynn Anderson

The three little sisters stood side by side, wide-eyed. Clothed in identical bright dresses they looked like they could have been posing for a magazine cover; they even had an audience of sorts. But the audience wasn’t really an audience, and the girls weren’t posing for photographs. Two of the sisters, Elizabeth Anne Edmonds and Mary Virginia Edmonds, were about to receive the sacrament of baptism, and the “audience” was comprised of other children who were there to welcome them into the Christian community at Saint Michael’s Church in Gainesville.

Betsy and Ginger Edmonds, ages 7 and 4, have only been in Gainesville since last summer when they were re-united with their younger sister Emily, 2. The three Peruvian sisters found their way to Gainesville through Linda and Tony Edmonds, but also with the guiding hand of the priest who baptized them Sunday, February 17.

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He was 6. They called him The Worm. He had had polio and couldn't use his arms or legs. When Kathy Sreedhar met him in one of Mother Teresa's foundling homes in India, she was told he might be able to manage a wheelchair some day, but no more.

That was two years ago. Sreedhar, who is Mother Teresa's agent for adoptions in this country, found a home for the boy with a California family.

Last summer she stopped off at the Los Angeles airport, and the family drove 100 miles to spend an hour with her because they had never met her.

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He was 6. They called him The Worm. He had had polio and couldn't use his arms or legs. When Kathy Sreedhar met him in one of Mother Teresa's foundling homes in India, she was told he might be able to manage a wheelchair some day, but no more.

That was two years ago. Sreedhar, who is Mother Teresa's agent for adoptions in this country, found a home for the boy with a California family.

Last summer she stopped off at the Los Angeles airport, and the family drove 100 miles to spend an hour with her because they had never met her.

"Sam had braces on his legs," she said, "and when he saw me he dropped his crutches and ran to me . . . "

That's what it's all about, Kathy Sreedhar says.

Adoptie van buitenlandse kinderen

Jv, 1979, nr. 4

Samenvatting

Voor een bijdrage aan het Internationale Jaar van het Kind heeft de redactie van Justitiële verkenningen de keus laten vallen op het thema: 'Adoptie van buitenlandse kinderen', waarbij in het bijzonder gedacht is aan die kinderen die uit verre landen afkomstig zijn. Het is een controversieel en politiek gevoelig onderwerp. Het feit dat naast de belangen van deze kinderen ook de belangen van de, veelal kinderloze, adoptiefouders in het geding zijn, maakt dat het bovendien een emotioneel beladen onderwerp is. Op dit netelige terrein opereren de instanties die met het toelatingsbeleid, de selectie van de aspirant-adoptiefouders en de bemiddeling zijn belast. De belangrijkste zijn: het Ministerie van Justitie, de Raad voor de Kinderbescherming en het Bureau Interlandelijke Adoptie. In dit themanummer wordt geprobeerd een zo veelzijdig mogelijk beeld te geven van deze problematiek.

Inhoudsopgave

NRC Handelsblad

01-09-1979

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Growing number of applications from families with their own children

many books about intercountry adoption

APELDOORN - The more so-called "intercountry adoption" is gaining ground in the Netherlands, partly due to a somewhat more flexible admission policy of our government, the more unclear this issue appears to be and becomes unclear. children's books about and for adoptive children from Africa and the whole of the third world and popular brochures etc. for those who think they have good reasons to include one or more foreign adoptive children in their family, whether or not they are childless.

I have found that the practice of intercountry adoption entails so many problems that many are deterred by the complex and lengthy procedures, certainly those who are not so familiar with civil service and judicial hairdoing through education or occupation. In itself, these correct procedures must of course offer all possible - and sometimes even impossible - guarantees to the adoptive parents and (in the first place) to the child to be adopted. But it is not easy, certainly not for the often blamed "self-doers", to find the right and most importantly shortest route.

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