An independent voice for ethical adoption
From AFP (via Google News): Three US senators on Wednesday unveiled a bill to clear away hurdles to citizenship for roughly 1,000 Haitian orphans whose adoptions by US parents were rushed because of a January earthquake. US and Haitian authorities cleared the children to join their adoptive parents after the disaster. But without the complete [...]
From the Associated Press: The last of 10 Americans detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake was freed Monday when a judge convicted her but sentenced her to time already served in jail. Laura Silsby, the organizer of the ill-fated effort to take the children to an [...]
From the Washington Examiner: Haiti’s adoption authority is now accepting new applications for children who were either documented as orphans before the quake or who have been formally relinquished by their birth parents since Jan. 12.However, the major U.S. adoption agencies that operate in Haiti are not rushing back with a flood of applications. Instead, [...]
Haiti—The baby, his left leg amputated, arrived by helicopter at a hospital in northern Haiti early this month with a wristband that simply said “Boy.” The staff there called him “Jean Pierre.” On Thursday, he became Kervins Noel again, after he was flown back here by the International Committee of the Red Cross.His mother, Eclane [...]
Just last week, efforts by the McMutrie sisters to bring a second group of 12 children to the U.S. ended in failure. And the Haitian government, which recently arrested 10 Baptist missionaries for trying to bring 33 undocumented children into the Dominican Republic, has clamped down on out-of-country adoptions. The fear of child trafficking is [...]