August 16, 2012 00:08:00
Dianne Wood, Record staff
KITCHENER — It’s been three years since hundreds of families across Canada — including many in Waterloo Region — were left devastated by the collapse of Imagine Adoption.
On Monday, the estranged couple who ran the Cambridge-based international adoption agency will be in court to face allegations they used corporate funds for personal use. (more…)
GEOFFREY YORK
JOHANNESBURG
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
Last updated Tuesday, May. 29, 2012 9:24PM EDT
A dramatic rise in foreign adoptions from Africa is ringing alarm bells among child advocates who worry that the soaring numbers are fuelled by financial incentives and a lack of basic safeguards.
The number of African children adopted by foreign families has nearly tripled in the past eight years. Nearly 6,350 children from Africa were adopted by foreigners in 2010, compared to less than 2,240 in 2003, according to a report released on Tuesday. (more…)
LAOS is investigating a retired justice ministry official for allegedly selling adopted babies to Australians, Americans and Canadians for thousands of dollars each.
The official is accused of seeking out unwanted babies in poor rural areas, obtaining adoption papers and selling the infants to foreigners for up to $5,000 each, according to a Radio Free Asia report today. (more…)
“It’s tough for the legislators to keep up, and this is a case where it may be lagging,” said Rich Gabruch, lawyer for “John” and “Bill,” the same-sex couple who are now properly called the parents of “Sarah,” who was conceived with John’s sperm and an ovum from an anonymous donor, and carried to term by “Mary.”
A Saskatchewan judge has ruled that a woman who gave birth to a baby girl in 2009 is not actually the child’s mother, in a decision that exposes the gap between legislation and reality in modern parenthood. (more…)
Viele Bürgerkriegsopfer wurden von Militärs für Adoptionen im Ausland entführt
San Salvador – Das verknitterte und vergilbte Schwarz-Weiß-Foto hütet Raúl wie einen Schatz. Es ist das Einzige, was er von seiner Mutter noch hat. Als Raúl vier Jahre alt war, brachte seine Mutter ihn und den um ein Jahr jüngeren Jorge in einem kirchlichen Kinderheim in Sicherheit vor den Wirren des salvadorianischen Bürgerkriegs. Mit sieben erfuhr Raúl, dass seine Mutter tot war.
Sie war in den kirchlichen Basisgemeinden aktiv, die vom Militär als Zuarbeiter der Guerilla verdächtigt wurden. 1992 endete der Bürgerkrieg in dem mittelamerikanischen Land. Raúl war 15, er und sein Bruder blieben Kriegswaisen. Rund 75.000 Menschen starben im Bürgerkrieg, mehr als 8000 gelten immer noch als verschwunden, darunter 871 Kinder. (more…)
Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world
By Laurie Penny
Sunday, 5 June 2011
In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing. They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising that they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. The children never returned. (more…)
Published On Wed Jun 1 2011
Laurie MonsebraatenSocial Justice Reporter
Queen’s Park has removed legal barriers that trap most of the province’s 9,000 Crown wards in foster care with no hope of adoption.
May 25, 2011 9:47 PM | By Leslie MacKinnon
She’s the mother of a 5-year-old girl adopted from the same region in China. “It’s like a dirty secret”, she says, “but it’s time we started talking about it.”
CBC News’ China correspondent, Anthony Germain, interviewed two parents in China who said the family-planning officials who enforce the country’s one-child policy seized at least 20 babies, including their own, and sent them to orphanages to be adopted abroad.
“By changing their identities and processing the stolen children through legally recognized orphanages, the chances of any impoverished Chinese parent ever finding their child are almost nonexistent,” Germain reported. (more…)
Olivia Pratten fought for more than 10 years to find out the identity and other information about her biological dad, an anonymous sperm donor.
T h e B . C . g ov e r n m e n t blocked her efforts, so Pratten, a 29-year-old journalist who now lives in Toronto, took her case to court.
On Thursday, a judge found that the Adoption Act, a law that applies to anonymous sperm and egg donors, is discriminatory. (more…)
Date: 2011-05-15
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