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Author explains adoption “market forces of supply and demand”
From NPR: Motivated by the desire to provide a home to a needy child, parents like the Franklins don’t like to talk about international adoption as a business. But clearly the market forces of supply and demand have been at work. A country opens its doors to prospective parents, whether because of war, natural disaster, [...]
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 [...]
How flawed is the international adoption process?
From Slate: It is impossible to know exactly how many international adoptions are similarly tainted. The underlying problem is that the developing world does not have as many young children who need families as the West has families who want a young child. Many Westerners have heard that there is a massive worldwide orphan crisis [...]
Romania: International adoptions possible if adopter or spouse is Romanian
From Nine O’Clock: The Senate passed Tuesday a draft law that allows the international adoption of Romanian children if the adopter or one of the two spouses is a Romanian citizen, Mediafax informs. The report with the amendments proposed by the Legal and Labour committees, passed with 101 votes to seven, and four abstentions. The [...]
Romania: Government’s rejection of international adoptions remains firm
From the Bucharest Herald: Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi told Pro TV that the government’s stance not to allow resumption of international adoptions remains firm, although there still is “lobbying from several European states and our American friends.” “We have stopped international adoptions and this was a good thing. There were discussions about already open cases, [...]
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