An independent voice for ethical adoption
From BBC News: Adama Coulibaly has got his daughter back now, but he is still determined to find out what happened to her and how she went missing from the streets of Mali’s capital, Bamako. According to Mr Coulibaly, his four-year-old daughter Adjaratou was abducted from in front of his house in September last year. [...]
From the Irish Examiner: According to its website, the Adoption Board is “responsible for registering and supervising the registered adoption societies and for maintaining the adoption societies register”. However, the level of supervision it actually carries out is questionable. Numerous cases of illegal adoptions and questionable practices involving accredited adoption agencies have been highlighted by [...]
From The Times Leader: Luzerne County Children and Youth Services has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by an Edwardsville man who claims the agency allowed his son to be adopted without notifying him of the proceeding. The settlement reached Wednesday with George Bartleson comes less than a week after a jury awarded $219,000 [...]
From the Argus Leader: A Sioux Falls couple who waited patiently for more than a year to bring their adopted children home say they got scammed, and are looking to the courts to help salve their broken hearts. Cori and Chris Schmaus said they contracted with an Indianapolis company, Americans For African Adoptions, in early [...]
From the Star Tribune: Three cribs stand empty in the unused bedroom of Suann Hibbs’ Edina home, and the closet is full of unworn baby clothes. Sad reminders, Hibbs says, of her broken dream of bringing home three orphans from Guatemala to raise as her daughters. She spent three years and thousands of dollars on [...]