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Quebec woman charged in adopted daughter’s death
From CTV News: A Quebec woman appeared in court Monday afternoon after being charged with first-degree murder in relation to the death of her seven-year-old daughter, Sophie Fitzpatrick. Catherine Dufresne’s appearance in court was a surprise to her lawyer, who expected to attend the proceedings alone. Dufresne was apparently released from hospital earlier in the [...]
Chinese orphanages buying babies for foreign adoption, investigation finds
From The Telegraph: Chinese orphanages may still be buying babies and offering them for foreign adoption, Sky News discovered in an investigation. It follows a series of scandals linking China’s foreign adoption program to baby trafficking and the illegal confiscation of children. Since international adoptions began in China in the early 1990s, more than 100,000 children [...]
For adoptive parents, questions without answers
From The New York Times: In almost any adoption, the new parents accept that their good fortune arises out of the hardship of the child’s first parents. The equation is usually tempered by the thought that the birth parents either are no longer alive or chose to give the child a better life than they [...]
Child trafficking in China raises fears for adoptive parents
From SOS Children’s Villages: Reports from government officials emerging from China are having some adoptive parents of children from that country fearing that their children may have been stolen from their birth parents and sold on the black market. Child abduction and trafficking has been making headlines in China recently, and many parents of adopted [...]
China: US Department of State Adoption Notice – Concerns About Information on the Background of Children Adopted from China – August 15, 2011
From the US Department of State: China August 15, 2011 Notice: Concerns About Information on the Background of Children Adopted from China The press has reported allegations that in 2005 local family planning officials in China, in the name of enforcing the “One Child Policy,” seized children from their birth families and sold them to [...]
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