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• Adoptive Families’ Quests To Trace Chinese Roots Often Meet Dead Ends

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 541
  From Los Angeles Times : My name is Haley. I was adopted in 1995. I now live in America. I enjoy singing and playing the violin and hanging out with my friends. I have a good life, but I would like to find my biological family. Just minutes after Jeannie Butler and her adopted daughter, Haley, tacked a ...
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• Guatamala: A Baby Factory No Longer?

  
  "Neither Here Nor There..." — Authority: 123
  By Ezra Fieser — Special to GlobalPostPublished: December 23, 2009 06:35 ETGUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — When the adoption business was booming here, American couples came by the thousands.They flocked to the dozens of privately run children’s homes or to lawyers’ offices to adopt Guatemalan babies. They paid ...
  2 days ago

• Overseas adoptions halted

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  By Matthew Benns December 27, 2009 / smh.com.au DESPERATE families seeking to adopt children from overseas have been dealt a blow after the Attorney-Generals Department halted Australias largest international adoption program. Frustrated adoption groups claim steps taken by the Rudd Government to free up adoption ...
  2 days ago

• Challenges in adoption procedures in Europe

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  Joint Council of Europe and European Commission Conference www.coe.int/family CHALLENGES IN ADOPTION PROCEDURES IN EUROPE: ENSURING THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD 30 November - 1 December 2009 Strasbourg, Palais de lEurope CONCLUSIONS read more
  3 days ago

• Norma Cruz, a life of struggle against violence

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  By Alberto Ramírez E./ Pensa Libre December 15, 2009 Automatic translation from original Spanish article Norma Cruz, president of Fundación Sobrevivientes , was nominated as a candidate for Prensa Libres Person of the Year 2009, for her struggle for female victims of violence, the recovery of children ...
  4 days ago

• Article 21 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Adoption

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  from: Implementation Handbook for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, fully revised edition States Parties which recognize and/or permit the system of adoption shall ensure that the best interests of the child shall be the paramount consideration and they shall: read more
  4 days ago

• Guatemala: a baby factory no longer?

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  Will Guatemalas new adoption rule stop exploitation or result in more orphans? By Ezra Fieser — Special to GlobalPost December 23, 2009 / GlobalPost.com GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — When the adoption business was booming here, American couples came by the thousands. read more
  5 days ago

• Revenues of large adoption agencies and the decline in inter-county adoption

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  This week the U.S. State Department presented the figures of intercountry adoption for FY 2009, and for the fifth year in a row the numbers have dropped. Here are the total number of inter-county adoptions for the last 6 years: 2004: 22,990 2005: 22,734 2006: 20,680 2007: 19,609 2008: 17,475 2009: 12,753 ...
  5 days ago

• Adoptees dress up to raise awareness

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  What sort of mission would a chicken have in Seoul Station? read more
  6 days ago

• “The Blind Side” — Reflections on Adoption

  
  Taking Thoughts Captive... — Authority: 103
  Yesterday, we enjoyed our first free weekend afternoon in December by heading to the theater to see “ The Blind Side .”  In case you are unfamiliar with the story, as I was before yesterday, here’s the summary from the movie’s website: Teenager Michael Oher is surviving on his own, virtually homeless, when ...
  1 week ago

• Minnesota couple caught up in apparent adoption fraud

  
  Harlow's Monkey — Authority: 411
  I dont know if this happens as often in other countries, but this seems to way more common among Indian adoptions. I personally know of one family (that also dissolved the adoption) when a family adopted a "3-year old" girl from India who turned out to be at least 6 years older than it was stated (they found out ...
  1 week ago

• How’s that Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption workin’ out for you then?

  
  Baby Love Child — Authority: 103
  Yeah, not so swell. Yesterday’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune ran an article focusing on the adoptive family’s end of an adoption of two girls from India, an adoption rooted firmly in lies. The girls were the second and third adoptions Maria Melichar and her husband Carl had done through the agency. Minnesota couple ...
  1 week ago

• 143 million orphans and the adoption agenda

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  For years adoption advocates and adoption agencies have used the claim that there are 143 million orphans in the world, based upon an estimate made by Unicef, to further the agenda of inter-country adoption. Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS) . a trade association of adoption service ...
  1 week ago

• Home study visit- one and only

  
  Emily, Rich, & Dawit — Authority: 122
  Our social worker, Ralph, came to visit. We only need to have one home visit this time around instead of the 2 visits that were required for our first adoption since were re-filing our home study and not submitting a brand new one.Despite being *experienced* adoptive parents, I still momentarily panicked when Ralph ...
  1 week ago

• Foreign adoptions plunge in FY 2009 - more orphans for agencies requested

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  Yesterday, the Associated Press reported the State Department released the international adoption figures for fiscal year 2009. The reported numbers are no surprise, more than a month a ago, we already published the preliminary numbers , and the figure presented now are nearly identical. read more
  1 week ago

• Foreign adoptions by Americans hit 13-year low

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 158
  Foreign adoptions by Americans hit 13-year low The number of foreign children adopted by Americans plunged more than a quarter in the past year, reaching the lowest level since 1996 and leading adoption advocates to urge Congress to help reverse the trend.
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• COURT: She is accused of human trafficking and forged documents

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  from: La Hora Machine translated from original Spanish article Captured lawyer accused of being ringleader of anomalous  adoption network By: Gerson Ortiz Mary de la Asuncion Loarca Saracho [ Susana Luarca ], Lawyer of Mexican origin, was captured this morning at her residence in zone 10, the Ministry ...
  1 week ago

• Kill the bill: the Families for Orphans Act and the fraudulent ideology of permanency

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  Two months ago, we published an article about the Families for Orphans Act 2009 , a piece of legislation co-authored by the  Joint Council on International Childrens Services  (JCICS), a trade association for adoption service providers. read more
  1 week ago

• Thank you. Oh ... and the winners!

  
  Life with Bubba, Chicky and Nika — Authority: 473
  Thank you, thank you, thank you! With the help of many of you, Lisa was able to fundraise $1,050 for Zhora! Amazing. I am praying that this sweet boy is that much closer to finding his forever family. Moving on to the drawing for the iPod Touch and the quilt ... We interrupt this drawing for an announcement ... ...
  1 week ago

• Preview: The Lost Children

  
  Pound Pup Legacy Feed — Authority: 436
  from: CBS news "48 Hours" Investigation: Families are Torn Apart in One of the Largest Foreign Adoption Scams in U.S. History (CBS) CBS News will present, "The Lost Children," a "48 Hours" special, on Saturday, Dec. 12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT - the clmination of a two-year investigation by "48 Hours" into one of the ...
  2 weeks ago

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