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USCIS Public Engagement: “Grandfathered” Adoptions Engagement
From U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: Dear Stakeholder, USCIS invites interested parties to participate in a national stakeholder teleconference on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 @ 2:00 PM EDT. The purpose of this engagement is to discuss changes to the process of “grandfathering” certain adoption cases as orphan cases when the U.S. and another country [...]
Washington: State officials investigating several cases of abuse of adopted children
From The Daily News Online: An alleged child starvation case near Longview is one of more than a dozen cases — including one death — that have state officials reviewing how adopted children are placed and treated. The number of abuse cases is small compared to all adoptions. But a string of high-profile child starvation [...]
Dr. Susan Bissell addresses misperceptions of UNICEF
From Council on Foreign Relations: The biggest misperception is that UNICEF is against inter-country adoption. We are most certainly not against inter-country adoption. I think that there is some very deliberate and misleading journalism in this area. We support the continuum of care: everything from trying to support vulnerable families so they don’t have to [...]
Comprehensive medical evaluations of newly adopted children crucial
From American Medical News: The unique health needs of newly adopted children make it crucial that physicians perform a comprehensive evaluation, including gathering any available medical history and conducting age-appropriate tests, a developmental assessment and complete physical examination, says an American Academy of Pediatrics clinical report in the January Pediatrics. The article offers guidelines for [...]
New U.S. Guidelines for Pediatricians to assess International Adoptions
From SOS Children’s Villages: Despite the fact that many children are arriving with incomplete birth and medical records, the new guidelines released by the American Academy of Paediatrics (AAP) states that paediatricians should delay changing issues like an adopted child’s age for at least 12 months.The new guideline on adoptee evaluation and treatment is seeking [...]
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