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International Adoption
Utah woman, adopted from India, faces likely deportation after losing appeal
From The Salt Lake Tribune: Kairi Shepherd was an orphan living in India when a Utah woman adopted her in 1982 — a seemingly good turn of luck for the 3-month-old, which included her obtaining legal permanent resident status in the United States. But when she was 8, her adoptive mother died of cancer. When [...]
International Adoptions Plummet
From the Associated Press: The number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with domestic families. Globally, the number of orphans being adopted by foreign parents dropped from a [...]
The Aftermath of Abusive Adoption Practices in the Lives of Adoption Triad Members: Responding to Adoption Triad Members Victimized by Abusive Adoption Practices
From David M. Smolin and Desiree L. Smolin: The above-titled presentation was given as a plenary presentation at the Annual Symposium of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS) on April 18, 2012. Herein is a slightly modified version of the Power Point used at the presentation. We corrected some typos and made some [...]
Adoption agencies’ new hard-to-place worry? Boys
From The StarTribune: … But Rochon [an adoption professional] is baffled by a new group sharing longer waits to be adopted, along with older children, siblings and children with chronic health conditions: boys. “When it comes to families, we just have more boys [waiting] than girls,” said Rochon, senior country relations manager at the St. [...]
Adoptees deported by US
From The Korea Times: Until 2001, when Korean children were sent to the U.S. for overseas adoption, it was their adoptive parents’ responsibility to naturalize them as U.S. citizens… Unlike European governments, the U.S. government did not automatically grant citizenship to overseas adoptees until 2001. The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 came into force on [...]
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