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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Happy 2012!  We hope your New Year is starting out well. Here at Ethica, we finished out 2011 very quietly as we contemplated our positioning for 2012.  In 2011, we decided to shift our focus from crisis intervention to policy advocacy on a national level, and we worked diligently with officials in Washington [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come join Ethica!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethica Needs You! Ethica is an exciting adoption policy and support organization based in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.  We inform the public on ethical issues associated with adoption including full and informed consent, lobby against trafficking of children for the purposes of adoption, and advocate for greater protections for all members of the adoption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the President:  Not a time to rejoice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, A few days ago, in an unprecedented ruling, a judge in Guatemala ordered an adoption rescinded and a child returned from her American adoptive family to her biological family in Guatemala because her adoption was found to be fraudulent.  Although the nuances of the case are still unfolding, author Erin Siegal&#8217;s blog, Finding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting for “orphans”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethica is happy to announce the addition of a new board member to our team. Rachel Schatz Wegner is a member of our international policy advocacy team. She became a passionate proponent of adoption ethics and transparency after she and her husband chose to abandon their plan to adopt from Vietnam amidst reports of corruption [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wealth, Poverty and the Child&#8217;s Best Interests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's interesting how the public is drawn into celebrity adoptions and is beginning to explore the complex issues surrounding wealth, poverty, and how they play into building or in some cases, the need to rebuild families. I live in Michigan and work as a social worker here. Ironically enough, Michigan is also Madonna's home state. Food banks are scrambling to meet the demands of hungry families and the state has the highest unemployment rate in the country. Now more than ever we can empathize with struggling families and the terror that comes with the need to feed and care for our children. Now more than ever we can empathize with the daily realities of families in developing countries. Most of us would recognize that tearing a family apart and institutionalizing our children, or placing them into adoption, would be a last resort. Yet, many of us are ready to condemn a Malawian grandmother for fighting to keep a child when it seems like the child's best interests can be met by a wealthy stranger.]]></description>
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