– CBC News The Yukon government is getting ready to open up adoption records it has kept secret for decades, making it easier for adopted children and their birth parents to find each other. Parents or adopted children who want their adoption files kept confidential have until the end of April to make that request. […]
Children’s Aid Society workers should be reined in, critics say
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 […]
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 […]
Lost children: Why they should stay in Haiti
The high price of foreign adoption is corrupting – meaning parents may be getting `paper orphans’ By Nicole Baute There is no fool like the one who wants to be fooled. Professor David Smolin wrote those words in 2005 referring to adoptive parents in the Western world. Eager to believe they are saving orphaned children […]
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 […]
Adoptees can find Mom, but not Dad
From the Toronto Star By Nicole Baute December 10, 2009 When Ontario opened its adoption records on June 1, adult adoptees yearning for information about their birth parents applied in droves. But as the replies came back, it became clear something was missing: the names of their fathers. Out of all 250,000 Ontario adoption registrations, […]
Building a Baby, With Few Ground Rules
From the New York Times by STEPHANIE SAUL Unable to have a baby of her own, Amy Kehoe became her own general contractor to manufacture one. For Ms. Kehoe and her husband, Scott, the idea seemed like their best hope after years of infertility. Working mostly over the Internet, Ms. Kehoe handpicked the egg donor, […]
Ontario Opens its Old Adoption Records – Surprise! No Dads!
From Men’s News Daily By Robert Franklin, Esq. Saturday, December 19, 2009 Back on June 1st of this year, the province of Ontario opened all its old adoption records so that adoptees could locate their birth parents if they wanted. Read about it here (Toronto Star, 12/10/09). And, to no one’s great surprise, a lot […]