A nurse demonstrates Japan's first "baby hatch" in Kumamoto, 01 May 2007. The first unwanted child has been dropped off at Japan's new "baby hatch," outraging the conservative government as news reports said it was boy who was already three or four years old.
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Adoptee sifts through a stolen past
Adoptee sifts through a stolen past
May 02, 2007
Lily Schur/Kim Jang-mee
At the age of 3, Lily Schur was kidnapped from her parents and adopted away to the United States. Now 22, Lily is a brightly smiling young woman with a positive outlook on aspects of her past that are just beyond the reach of her memory. Having been adopted by a white American family, she first returned to the Korean Peninsula at age 13 as part of an adoptee program.
"There was that feeling that I'd been here before," said Lily, whose Korean name is Kim Jang-mee. "Even to this day, I'm not sure if it's a real memory."
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May 02, 2007
Lily Schur/Kim Jang-mee
At the age of 3, Lily Schur was kidnapped from her parents and adopted away to the United States. Now 22, Lily is a brightly smiling young woman with a positive outlook on aspects of her past that are just beyond the reach of her memory. Having been adopted by a white American family, she first returned to the Korean Peninsula at age 13 as part of an adoptee program.
"There was that feeling that I'd been here before," said Lily, whose Korean name is Kim Jang-mee. "Even to this day, I'm not sure if it's a real memory."
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'Stolen boy' may be one of dozens
'Stolen boy' may be one of dozens
Wednesday 23 May 2007
Justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin is setting up an investigation into the case of the Indian boy allegedly kidnapped from his home and later adopted by a Dutch couple. 'This is a very serious case,' Ballin is reported as saying. 'Think of the repercussions for everyone involved.'The boy was allegedly kidnapped in 1999 and sold to a children's home with a false letter of acceptance from the parents. He was then brought to the Netherlands by a Dutch adoption agency and adopted by a Dutch couple.
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Wednesday 23 May 2007
Justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin is setting up an investigation into the case of the Indian boy allegedly kidnapped from his home and later adopted by a Dutch couple. 'This is a very serious case,' Ballin is reported as saying. 'Think of the repercussions for everyone involved.'The boy was allegedly kidnapped in 1999 and sold to a children's home with a false letter of acceptance from the parents. He was then brought to the Netherlands by a Dutch adoption agency and adopted by a Dutch couple.
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Korean Adoptees and Birth Mothers Protest Overseas Adoption
Korean adoptees from abroad and birth mothers protest overseas adoption
By Kim Young-gyo
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -
Roh Myung-ja has gotten together with her sonevery year since 2004, when she was reunited with him after giving him up for adoption about 30 years ago. She is one of thousands of Korean women whose children were adopted overseas. The 49-year-old Roh believes what she has experienced in the years before her son returned to her should not happen to anyone. Now, she works as a staff member of Mindeulae, (Dandelions) , a civic group of South Korean parents whose children were adopted overseas and who oppose the nation's adoption system, which sends thousands of orphaned and abandoned children abroad.
"We hope that no other mothers have to go through the pain and suffering that we went through. Overseas adoption leaves deep-rooted scars both on the birth mothers and the children," Roh said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency on Saturday....
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By Kim Young-gyo
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -
Roh Myung-ja has gotten together with her sonevery year since 2004, when she was reunited with him after giving him up for adoption about 30 years ago. She is one of thousands of Korean women whose children were adopted overseas. The 49-year-old Roh believes what she has experienced in the years before her son returned to her should not happen to anyone. Now, she works as a staff member of Mindeulae, (Dandelions) , a civic group of South Korean parents whose children were adopted overseas and who oppose the nation's adoption system, which sends thousands of orphaned and abandoned children abroad.
"We hope that no other mothers have to go through the pain and suffering that we went through. Overseas adoption leaves deep-rooted scars both on the birth mothers and the children," Roh said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency on Saturday....
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Boy's Wish to See Biological Family
Boy's Wish To See Biological Family
Sunday, 05 Aug 2007, 10:53 PM CDT
Andy Banker
St. Louis, MO (KTVI - myFOXstl.com)
A teenage cancer patient had an usual wish. Sunday night, that wish came true. 17-year-old Michael Westfall O'fallon, Illinois, could have "wished" for something like a backstage pass to meet his favorite musician or maybe a Carribean cruise. But his wish was for others to get their wish. Westfall, who's been battling a type of bone cancer for about a year and a half, had that wish granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Michael was born in Peru, then adopted by a U.S. family as a baby. Though he'd been to Peru to see his biological family, he wanted them to be able to come here. So, he, in essence gave his once-in-a-lifetime wish, to them.
The long awaited flight from Peru by way of Altanta was delayed twice, as his biological mother and older brother had trouble finding the right flight. -
"Delay after delays," Michael said anxiously. He was still a little tired, having just been released from a hospital Saturday for treatment of a complication from his cancer. He originally planned to stay at home and wait for his guests to arrive there. When he learned their would be arriving at 8:30 instead of 5:00 p.m. , he came to the Lambert Airport to greet them....
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Sunday, 05 Aug 2007, 10:53 PM CDT
Andy Banker
St. Louis, MO (KTVI - myFOXstl.com)
A teenage cancer patient had an usual wish. Sunday night, that wish came true. 17-year-old Michael Westfall O'fallon, Illinois, could have "wished" for something like a backstage pass to meet his favorite musician or maybe a Carribean cruise. But his wish was for others to get their wish. Westfall, who's been battling a type of bone cancer for about a year and a half, had that wish granted by the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
Michael was born in Peru, then adopted by a U.S. family as a baby. Though he'd been to Peru to see his biological family, he wanted them to be able to come here. So, he, in essence gave his once-in-a-lifetime wish, to them.
The long awaited flight from Peru by way of Altanta was delayed twice, as his biological mother and older brother had trouble finding the right flight. -
"Delay after delays," Michael said anxiously. He was still a little tired, having just been released from a hospital Saturday for treatment of a complication from his cancer. He originally planned to stay at home and wait for his guests to arrive there. When he learned their would be arriving at 8:30 instead of 5:00 p.m. , he came to the Lambert Airport to greet them....
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Adoptee seeks end to overseas adoptions
Adoptee seeks end to overseas adoptions
August 04, 2007
As the biggest-ever meeting of Korean overseas adoptees wraps up its five-day event tomorrow in Seoul, another group of adoptees has adifferent goal: ending the practice of overseas adoptions altogether.
Jane Trenka, a 35-year-old U.S. adoptee living and working in Seoul, said yesterday that about 100 adoptees she organized will stage an anti-overseas adoption protest at the Dongguk University subway station in central Seoul. A group of dozens of birth mothers who put their children up for adoption will join the protest, the first of its kind by Korean adoptees, Trenka said. Trenka said her group will try to collect 1 million signatures against international adoption and present the petitions to the National Assembly.
“I think everybody agrees the best thing for children is to be raised by their own mothers,” said Trenka, a copy editor for the Yonhap News Agency. “Perhaps, materially, we [adoptees] can have more, but we aretalking about mother-children relationships, and I think they are moreimportant than money.”....
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August 04, 2007
As the biggest-ever meeting of Korean overseas adoptees wraps up its five-day event tomorrow in Seoul, another group of adoptees has adifferent goal: ending the practice of overseas adoptions altogether.
Jane Trenka, a 35-year-old U.S. adoptee living and working in Seoul, said yesterday that about 100 adoptees she organized will stage an anti-overseas adoption protest at the Dongguk University subway station in central Seoul. A group of dozens of birth mothers who put their children up for adoption will join the protest, the first of its kind by Korean adoptees, Trenka said. Trenka said her group will try to collect 1 million signatures against international adoption and present the petitions to the National Assembly.
“I think everybody agrees the best thing for children is to be raised by their own mothers,” said Trenka, a copy editor for the Yonhap News Agency. “Perhaps, materially, we [adoptees] can have more, but we aretalking about mother-children relationships, and I think they are moreimportant than money.”....
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Illegal Guatemalan foster home raid finds 46 babies
Illegal Guatemalan foster home raid finds 46 babies
Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:08PM By Mica Rosenberg
ANTIGUA, Guatemala (Reuters)
Guatemalan police found 46 children, somejust 3 days old, in an illegal foster home in the tourist city of Antigua on Saturday, the latest scandal for the country'scorruption-riddled adoption system.
Carlos Azurdia, an official from the country's adoption regulator, said two women were arrested in the raid. "There are newborns and children up to three-year-olds," Azurdia said. "None of them had the proper paperwork to be given up for adoption."
Guatemala has the highest per-capita adoption rate in the world, a lucrative business for private lawyers who run the trade and aresometimes accused of forging papers or paying mothers to sell their children. Close to 5,000 babies and children were adopted from the small Central American nation last year. Adoptive parents say some lawyers charge upto $40,000 to handle adoptions....
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Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:08PM By Mica Rosenberg
ANTIGUA, Guatemala (Reuters)
Guatemalan police found 46 children, somejust 3 days old, in an illegal foster home in the tourist city of Antigua on Saturday, the latest scandal for the country'scorruption-riddled adoption system.
Carlos Azurdia, an official from the country's adoption regulator, said two women were arrested in the raid. "There are newborns and children up to three-year-olds," Azurdia said. "None of them had the proper paperwork to be given up for adoption."
Guatemala has the highest per-capita adoption rate in the world, a lucrative business for private lawyers who run the trade and aresometimes accused of forging papers or paying mothers to sell their children. Close to 5,000 babies and children were adopted from the small Central American nation last year. Adoptive parents say some lawyers charge upto $40,000 to handle adoptions....
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Life as one of China's Stolen babies
Wednesday, 10 November 2004, 14:45 GMT
Dozens of Chinese babies are believed to be taken from or sold by their families each year, as part of a grim human trade. BBC World Service's Outlook programme spoke to 21-year-old Huang Xiuxiu, who was stolen from her family when she was just three.
A lady came and asked me to go and play at her house, and she led me away.
I was three years old at the time, and this is my only memory of being abducted. She bought me a twisted dough stick. Then she took me to the train station and handed me over to a man who seemed to be her husband.
As the train pulled away, I just wanted to go home to my mother.
As a child, I wasn't very happy. My new family didn't know much about my background
Huang XiuxiuI lived with them for a few months, and was then given to another family, living in a rural village in Fujian province.
My new family treated me very well, like a daughter - they became like parents to me.
But in my heart, I knew I had been abducted and sold to them; in my heart, I always knew I had another set of parents, and I really missed them.
I didn't exactly understand what abduction meant. I just knew I had been taken away from my real family. I felt horrible, as if I was a commodity, bought and sold.
As a child, I wasn't very happy. My new family didn't know much about my background - all they knew was I was from Hunan province....
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Dozens of Chinese babies are believed to be taken from or sold by their families each year, as part of a grim human trade. BBC World Service's Outlook programme spoke to 21-year-old Huang Xiuxiu, who was stolen from her family when she was just three.
A lady came and asked me to go and play at her house, and she led me away.
I was three years old at the time, and this is my only memory of being abducted. She bought me a twisted dough stick. Then she took me to the train station and handed me over to a man who seemed to be her husband.
As the train pulled away, I just wanted to go home to my mother.
As a child, I wasn't very happy. My new family didn't know much about my background
Huang XiuxiuI lived with them for a few months, and was then given to another family, living in a rural village in Fujian province.
My new family treated me very well, like a daughter - they became like parents to me.
But in my heart, I knew I had been abducted and sold to them; in my heart, I always knew I had another set of parents, and I really missed them.
I didn't exactly understand what abduction meant. I just knew I had been taken away from my real family. I felt horrible, as if I was a commodity, bought and sold.
As a child, I wasn't very happy. My new family didn't know much about my background - all they knew was I was from Hunan province....
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Guatemala seeks to slow exodus of babies to U.S.
Guatemala seeks to slow exodus of babies to U.S.
From Harris Whitbeck and Rose Arce
CNN
ANTIGUA, Guatemala (CNN) -- For many years, Guatemala has been a place of relatively uncomplicated adoptions for American parents. The small country's government estimates as many as 17 babies leave each day for adoptive parents in the United States.
But that number could soon drop to zero because of concerns over alleged improprieties in the Guatemalan adoption process. Guatemalan President Oscar Berger announced recently that adoptions to the United States will be suspended on January 1, 2008, a decision that could leave nearly 3,000 babies currently in the adoption pipeline in legal limbo.
"This is our heritage, our future," said Carmen Wennier, head of Guatemala's Social Welfare bureau, who has criticized the adoption system.
Guatemala has the highest per capita rate of adoption in the world and the United States represents the largest number of adoptions, with an estimated one of every 100 Guatemalan babies sent to the United States, according to the U.S. consulate in Guatemala. U.S. officials estimate more than 5,000 adoptions from Guatemala will be processed this year, an annual high which would make Guatemala the second biggest origin of adoptive babies to the United States, behind China....
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From Harris Whitbeck and Rose Arce
CNN
ANTIGUA, Guatemala (CNN) -- For many years, Guatemala has been a place of relatively uncomplicated adoptions for American parents. The small country's government estimates as many as 17 babies leave each day for adoptive parents in the United States.
But that number could soon drop to zero because of concerns over alleged improprieties in the Guatemalan adoption process. Guatemalan President Oscar Berger announced recently that adoptions to the United States will be suspended on January 1, 2008, a decision that could leave nearly 3,000 babies currently in the adoption pipeline in legal limbo.
"This is our heritage, our future," said Carmen Wennier, head of Guatemala's Social Welfare bureau, who has criticized the adoption system.
Guatemala has the highest per capita rate of adoption in the world and the United States represents the largest number of adoptions, with an estimated one of every 100 Guatemalan babies sent to the United States, according to the U.S. consulate in Guatemala. U.S. officials estimate more than 5,000 adoptions from Guatemala will be processed this year, an annual high which would make Guatemala the second biggest origin of adoptive babies to the United States, behind China....
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After many years, we are home
After many years, we are home
At a homecoming on the White Earth Indian Reservation, some who were adopted out were welcomed to their place in the circle.
By Curt Brown, Star Tribune
Last update: October 16, 2007 - 11:24 AM
MAHNOMEN, MINN. -- Duane Reynolds and Rachel Kupcho had never met until last weekend, when they each drove 250 miles from their suburban Twin Cities homes to the lake-dotted land of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.
Amid the sweet smell of burning sage and the heartbeat thumping of Ojibwe drummers, Reynolds, 60, and Kupcho, 30, stood side by side in a circle of 60 people as tribal spiritual elder Joe Bush prayed and performed pipe rituals.
The hand-stitched banner on the wall proclaimed in Ojibwe: Ishkwa Niibawa Dasobiboon Niiawind Abi Endad. And in English: After Many Years, We Are Home.
With the all-day healing ceremony, White Earth became Minnesota's first reservation, and perhaps the first in the nation, to formally welcome back some of the thousands of children adopted off reservations under a decades-long federal policy that encouraged their placement in non-Indian homes.
"Just to literally be on this land has been incredibly powerful," said Kupcho, who grew up in Chanhassen. "When I drove up and saw the sign, I just started crying. I've always believed my relatives are from here, so it's an emotional time, but a good time."
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At a homecoming on the White Earth Indian Reservation, some who were adopted out were welcomed to their place in the circle.
By Curt Brown, Star Tribune
Last update: October 16, 2007 - 11:24 AM
MAHNOMEN, MINN. -- Duane Reynolds and Rachel Kupcho had never met until last weekend, when they each drove 250 miles from their suburban Twin Cities homes to the lake-dotted land of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.
Amid the sweet smell of burning sage and the heartbeat thumping of Ojibwe drummers, Reynolds, 60, and Kupcho, 30, stood side by side in a circle of 60 people as tribal spiritual elder Joe Bush prayed and performed pipe rituals.
The hand-stitched banner on the wall proclaimed in Ojibwe: Ishkwa Niibawa Dasobiboon Niiawind Abi Endad. And in English: After Many Years, We Are Home.
With the all-day healing ceremony, White Earth became Minnesota's first reservation, and perhaps the first in the nation, to formally welcome back some of the thousands of children adopted off reservations under a decades-long federal policy that encouraged their placement in non-Indian homes.
"Just to literally be on this land has been incredibly powerful," said Kupcho, who grew up in Chanhassen. "When I drove up and saw the sign, I just started crying. I've always believed my relatives are from here, so it's an emotional time, but a good time."
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Child adoption process needs to be transparent
Child adoption process needs to be transparent
Parul Malik / CNN-IBN
Published October 21, 2007 at 16:20 in Nation
India section New Delhi:
Misinformation violates the rights of biological parents, of the child and the adoptive parents. And yet adoption is crucial for thousands of destitute children. So it is important to look at solutions that would make the entire process transparent and free from racketeers. Chaya Maria Schupp is 31. She has come from Germany looking for her birth mother from Mangalore. Chaya spent the first seven years of her life with her Indian mother. Before a German family adopted her. Chaya's is still to find her mother. Schupp says, "In my case there are no records. I cannot believe it I filed a case in High Court. I spend so much money coming. India is no holiday.
"Single and unwed mothers are most vulnerable to child traffickers. With support many of them could raise their children themselves....
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Parul Malik / CNN-IBN
Published October 21, 2007 at 16:20 in Nation
India section New Delhi:
Misinformation violates the rights of biological parents, of the child and the adoptive parents. And yet adoption is crucial for thousands of destitute children. So it is important to look at solutions that would make the entire process transparent and free from racketeers. Chaya Maria Schupp is 31. She has come from Germany looking for her birth mother from Mangalore. Chaya spent the first seven years of her life with her Indian mother. Before a German family adopted her. Chaya's is still to find her mother. Schupp says, "In my case there are no records. I cannot believe it I filed a case in High Court. I spend so much money coming. India is no holiday.
"Single and unwed mothers are most vulnerable to child traffickers. With support many of them could raise their children themselves....
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Children Snatched: Exposed but child traffickers get a free run in Maharashtra.
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Adoption Watchdog gives child traffickers Clean Chit. Regulatory authority's chief absolves adoption agency after it pays for his hotel bill.
Adoption watchdog gives child traffickers clean chit
Parul Malik / CNN-IBN
Published on Sunday , October 21, 2007 at 01:26 in Nation »
India section New Delhi/ Pune: Preet Mandir, an adoption agency in Pune, is the front for a child trafficking racket. A CNN-IBN Special Investigation exposed Preet Mandir and its owner J S Bhasin last year but it is still in business because India's adoption watchdog has turned a blind eye.After CNN-IBN's investigation in June 2006, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was asked to investigate Preet Mandir. The CBI says it took the testimonies of unwed mothers who said they willingly handed over their babies for adoption. But one such mother says the CBI never questioned her."No one from the CBI approached me. I didn't give up my child and the adoption agency asked me to sign a paper," says the woman, who didn't want her name to be revealed....
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Adoption Watchdog gives child traffickers Clean Chit. Regulatory authority's chief absolves adoption agency after it pays for his hotel bill.
Adoption watchdog gives child traffickers clean chit
Parul Malik / CNN-IBN
Published on Sunday , October 21, 2007 at 01:26 in Nation »
India section New Delhi/ Pune: Preet Mandir, an adoption agency in Pune, is the front for a child trafficking racket. A CNN-IBN Special Investigation exposed Preet Mandir and its owner J S Bhasin last year but it is still in business because India's adoption watchdog has turned a blind eye.After CNN-IBN's investigation in June 2006, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was asked to investigate Preet Mandir. The CBI says it took the testimonies of unwed mothers who said they willingly handed over their babies for adoption. But one such mother says the CBI never questioned her."No one from the CBI approached me. I didn't give up my child and the adoption agency asked me to sign a paper," says the woman, who didn't want her name to be revealed....
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New Doubts Over Chad 'Adoptions'
New Doubts Over Chad 'Adoptions'
Friday, Nov. 02, 2007
By BRUCE CRUMLEY
French authorities have repeatedly called on officials in Chad to respect presumptions of innocence in their case against six French humanitarian workers charged with trying to abduct 103 children — an operation Chadian investigators suspect may have been part of a clandestine adoption-for-pay scheme back in France. But each day brings additional allegations challenging the nature of the mission NGO Zoe's Ark claimed it was conducting in Chad.
The most damning revelation to arise in the drama came on Thursday, when results of an on-going inquiry by two United Nations organizations refuted the claim by Zoe's Ark officials that the 103 children were seriously ill or frail orphans from war-torn Darfur who were being rushed to France for urgent care. Instead, the U.N. investigation found at least 91 of the children had at least one parent still alive. Confirming the status of the remaining 12 is taking longer, due to their young age and difficulties communicating.
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Friday, Nov. 02, 2007
By BRUCE CRUMLEY
French authorities have repeatedly called on officials in Chad to respect presumptions of innocence in their case against six French humanitarian workers charged with trying to abduct 103 children — an operation Chadian investigators suspect may have been part of a clandestine adoption-for-pay scheme back in France. But each day brings additional allegations challenging the nature of the mission NGO Zoe's Ark claimed it was conducting in Chad.
The most damning revelation to arise in the drama came on Thursday, when results of an on-going inquiry by two United Nations organizations refuted the claim by Zoe's Ark officials that the 103 children were seriously ill or frail orphans from war-torn Darfur who were being rushed to France for urgent care. Instead, the U.N. investigation found at least 91 of the children had at least one parent still alive. Confirming the status of the remaining 12 is taking longer, due to their young age and difficulties communicating.
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Charges Made in Darfur 'Adoptions'
Charges Made in Darfur 'Adoptions'
Monday, Oct. 29, 2007
By BRUCE CRUMLEY
Things seem to be going from bad to worse for the six officials of a French non-governmental organization charged with attempted kidnapping in Chad, following their Oct. 25 arrest while trying to airlift 103 children they claimed were Darfur orphans. A total of 16 European nationals will stand trial for involvement in a case that Chadian authorities initially condemned as an illegal money-for-adoption scheme praying on child refugees from war-torn Darfur. If convicted, the six French child aid workers could face 20 years of hard labor in the bizarre affair — which has created an atmosphere of suspicion and hostility towards other NGOs working to protect victims of violence in Darfur.
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Monday, Oct. 29, 2007
By BRUCE CRUMLEY
Things seem to be going from bad to worse for the six officials of a French non-governmental organization charged with attempted kidnapping in Chad, following their Oct. 25 arrest while trying to airlift 103 children they claimed were Darfur orphans. A total of 16 European nationals will stand trial for involvement in a case that Chadian authorities initially condemned as an illegal money-for-adoption scheme praying on child refugees from war-torn Darfur. If convicted, the six French child aid workers could face 20 years of hard labor in the bizarre affair — which has created an atmosphere of suspicion and hostility towards other NGOs working to protect victims of violence in Darfur.
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Should race be a factor in adoptions?
Should Race Be a Factor in Adoptions?
Tuesday, May. 27, 2008
By JENINNE LEE-ST. JOHN
Should adoption agencies discriminate by race, or even by a person's racial sensitivity? According to current U.S. law, no. Since 1996, it has been illegal to consider race when determining whether families are suitable to raise adopted children — the law was intended to increase adoptions of black children, who are disproportionately represented in the foster care system, by making it easier for whites to take them home. But a new study suggests that approach is short-sighted. "Color-blind" adoption, the report contends, allows some white parents — who may not be mentally ready or have the appropriate social tools to parent black children — to raise youngsters, who may, in turn, experience social and psychological problems later in life....
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Tuesday, May. 27, 2008
By JENINNE LEE-ST. JOHN
Should adoption agencies discriminate by race, or even by a person's racial sensitivity? According to current U.S. law, no. Since 1996, it has been illegal to consider race when determining whether families are suitable to raise adopted children — the law was intended to increase adoptions of black children, who are disproportionately represented in the foster care system, by making it easier for whites to take them home. But a new study suggests that approach is short-sighted. "Color-blind" adoption, the report contends, allows some white parents — who may not be mentally ready or have the appropriate social tools to parent black children — to raise youngsters, who may, in turn, experience social and psychological problems later in life....
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