Where Magic Lives

International Adoptions
 
 
Date: 21-05-2006
Producer: Marion Edmunds
 
Genre: Children
Children for parents, and parents for children… International adoption is a new solution, as childless couples seek sons and daughters beyond their borders.

Ruda Landman (Carte Blanche presenter): ‘Infertility is becoming more and more of a problem in prosperous communities, and the search for babies for adoption is becoming ever more desperate. Here in South Africa some white couples are prepared to go quite literally to the ends of the earth to find their bundle of joy.’

Willem and Adri live in Alberton. For ten years, they knew the agony of trying and failing to conceive.

Adri Els (Adoptive Parent): ‘If you have walked a long road, you decide that it’s enough. We really wanted to be parents. That was our great wish.’

Willem Els: ‘It’s relatively difficult to find somebody in South Africa who can help. We phoned, emailed about five or six agencies, and they said that their waiting lists were full.’ (more…)

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SA ‘exports’ babies to other countries

Source:http://www.iol.co.za 
28 August 2005

Increasing numbers of South African babies are leaving the country with foreigners who are being allowed to adopt them because of the growing numbers who need homes, partly due to being orphaned by Aids.

The number of foreigners wanting to adopt children outnumbers South Africans, especially when adoption across race is involved, according to the department of social development, welfare organisations and independent adoption agencies which fall under the South African Association for Social Workers in Private Practice.

These organisations say there are many children, especially black, who need good homes. If no homes can be found here, they are willing to place them with families in other countries. (more…)

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INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS IN LEGAL LIMBO: LAW SOCIETY

Source: Newsbrief

CAPE TOWN 14 April 2005 Sapa

International adoptions of South African children are in a state
of legal limbo, with legislation to give effect to an international
convention signed in 2003 not yet enacted.

“In effect we have a legal anomaly. We have acceded to a legal
convention, but everything that we are doing is ultra vires because
it’s not part of our law… We are operating extra-judicially, can
you imagine the implications?” asked Susan Abro, chairwoman of the
family law committee of the Law Society of South Africa. (more…)

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Greece’s Black-Market Babies Come Home

This article was published on 22.09.1996 in the Seattle Times.

Stolen Children Demand To Know Their Histories. ATHENS, Greece – Forty-one years ago a frightened Greek child of 5, stolen from her mother, landed in America to begin a new life. (more…)

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Muslims at the Cape want to Romanian orphans provide a better future

DER SPIEGEL 27/1990 of 02.07.1990, page 142
Google translation:
Muslims at the Cape want to Romanian orphans provide a better future. But the apartheid stands in your way.
The benefactor of the poor, “says the bearded man behind the counter sales of the apparel business,” came 500 years into the sky rather than selfish rich. “Mahomed Yusuf Hassim, 52, a strictly devout Muslim who cares so more needy than the future of the small shop on the outskirts of Pretoria, to be from India übergesiedelter grandfather opened 1910.
The pious merchant advocates clemency for death row, or donate money for burial, when in the neighboring township of a black family no decent funeral for a deceased relatives can afford. His love so far as he felt “somewhat apolitical.”
Hassims latest project, however, has for Eddy ensured throughout the country and the government of South Africa fallen into a deep embarrassment. On television, he had pictures of the catastrophic conditions in the orphanages of Romania saw and immediately decided to provide legal redress. “My heart was bleeding,” says the Muslim, “because I had no choice.” (more…)
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