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 […]
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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 […]
Gordon Brown to apologise for Britain’s ‘shameful’ child migration policies
Britain is to join Australia in issuing an official apology for the “shameful” export of tens of thousands of children to Commonwealth countries with the promise of a better life, only for many of them to end up abused and neglected. By Richard Alleyne In what Ed Balls, the children secretary, described as “stain on […]