By Kevin Libin, National Post Published: Friday, June 12, 2009 They are charged with the most essential of duties: protecting vulnerable children from abuse and neglect. They will intervene in the lives of roughly 200,000 Canadian children this year. For most of us, they are generally unseen, save for occasional mentions in news reports, when […]
Archive | March, 2010
Origins-USA urges keeping Haitian orphans with their families
By Karen Ciandella The Adoption Community continues to come forward with position papers regarding adoptions in Haiti. Origins-USA is a national, non-profit organization working to protect the natural rights of mothers to nurture their children. Origins-USA released the following position statement this week: Origins-USA Urges Keeping Haitian Orphans with Their Families Many news stories have […]
Our Dirty Adoption Secret
By Emily Wolfinger The Federal Government wants to give forced adoption victims an apology, but seems very keen to prevent the public finding out exactly what the apology is for, writes Emily Wolfinger During a meeting at Minister for Families Jenny Macklin’s Canberra office on 27 August, the offer of an apology to an estimated […]
International adoption: A big fix brings dramatic decline
By Scott Baldauf in Johannesburg, South Africa; Sarah E. Burton in Beijing; Ezra Fieser in Guatemala City; Kathie Klarreich in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; and Fred Weir in Moscow When Silvia Sebac’s birth mother made the five-hour bus ride through the mountainous countryside to leave her at an orphanage in Guatemala City, the infant had every prospect […]