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Adoption documentaries to air on PBS
From The Examiner: Three documentaries about adoption will be aired on the PBS Point of View Series in the near future. Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy, follows the story of Fang Sui Yong, an 8 year-old girl adopted from China by an American family from Long Island. After leaving her foster family, language [...]
New Zealand: Birth parents lose fight for Maori adoption
From The New Zealand Herald: The biological parents of a two-year-old girl have lost a legal battle to have their daughter raised in a Maori family. The birth mother gave her daughter, of Maori and Cook Island Maori descent, to a Pakeha couple when she was just hours old but later changed her mind and [...]
Adopted overseas as children, they’re not U.S. citizens at all
From the News-Press: “You have many hundreds if not thousands of children who were adopted and are here legally, but are not U.S. citizens and therefore not afforded all the protections of U.S. citizenship,” said Chuck Johnson, president and CEO of the National Council For Adoption, an advocacy organization. More than half of the children [...]
Rwanda: U.S. Department of State Adoption Alert – August 27, 2010
From the U.S. Department of State: Adoption Alert U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs Office of Children’s Issues __________________________________________________________________ August 27, 2010 Effective August 31, 2010,the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MGFP) in Rwanda is temporarily suspending all new applications for intercountry adoptions so they can prepare for accession to the Hague [...]
Fear over Mali’s missing children
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. [...]
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