tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7474626159154746673.post6213096736304422354..comments2023-11-02T03:07:19.797-07:00Comments on A Child's Voice International Advocacy: AP Article on Babyselling in Vietnam for Adoptionssunfunliving@yahoo.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16896731038739904128noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7474626159154746673.post-2732187973904916232008-04-29T00:43:00.000-07:002008-04-29T00:43:00.000-07:00hi there !could you give us more info on how you r...hi there !<BR/>could you give us more info on how you researched the whole thing, and found that the cases investigated were resolved ? I'm in France, waiting for a VN child, and very worried about all these allegations. <BR/>I would love to be able to reassure friends and family (and myself first of all !!) and also fellow adopters that things are not THAT bad over there...<BR/>Thanks for all your work and for your blog !<BR/>Sylvie, from FranceSylvie la Grande Bretonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230216752983694899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7474626159154746673.post-55298279006357321862008-04-27T11:34:00.000-07:002008-04-27T11:34:00.000-07:00All of China's adoptable children (international) ...All of China's adoptable children (international) are abandoned. Yet the program moves with ease (except for the slowdown due to less children in the orphanages). No problems with getting a visa in China to bring your child home. So what is the difference? I just don't get it.<BR/><BR/>About 2 years ago, there were proven cases of baby selling to certain orphanages in China. Those responsable have been incarcerated. Yet visa's are still being given on a regular basis and have been before, during and after this happened. Just doesn't make sense how the US operates so differently there.Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01377382094942924170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7474626159154746673.post-38180379879851272802008-04-26T12:58:00.000-07:002008-04-26T12:58:00.000-07:00I am oh so tired of shoddy, un-critical and biased...I am oh so tired of shoddy, un-critical and biased reporting forming the opinion of so many Americans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7474626159154746673.post-50818745212465959622008-04-26T10:38:00.000-07:002008-04-26T10:38:00.000-07:00To Comment #1 - Anonymously said:You make a jump i...To Comment #1 - Anonymously said:<BR/><BR/>You make a jump in your reasoning... Yes, it is true that it is difficult to get a visa for an abandoned child because the U.S. Embassy requires concrete proof that a child was truly abandoned. How do you do that? A child is left somewhere and found. This happens a lot in Haiti. Babies and kids are literally thrown away. <BR/><BR/>The person who found the child can make a sworn statement that he found the child and the circumstances of finding the child. However, to the U.S. Embassy, that is not necessarily sufficient proof because that person could be lying (or so they reason). <BR/><BR/>The same thing happens when a child is a true orphan where both parents are dead. Often in poor countries people die and there is no such thing as family members or friends obtaining death certificates. If the family or community does not have the money for food, why would they spend money on obtaining a death certificate? In Liberia, parents died and were buried in the bush. Now, those children are true orphans who should be able to be adopted. <BR/><BR/>However, again here is the problem of providing proof that satisfies the U.S. Embassy that the child is a true orphan and the parents are dead. <BR/><BR/>Thus, orphanages and organizations who process adoptions would rather not take the chance in adopting a really abandoned (and found) child and/or a true orphan, even though these are the children that should be adopted. So, it is not a case of not being able to adopt a child as you mention in your comment.<BR/><BR/>Americans ARE ALLOWED to adopt abandoned or fully orphaned children but because it is so difficult to satisfy the proof element for the U.S. Embassy, those children end up not being adopted.sunfunliving@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16896731038739904128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7474626159154746673.post-63879310994774590582008-04-26T10:10:00.000-07:002008-04-26T10:10:00.000-07:00I also read a similar article and read that what s...I also read a similar article and read that what sparked the investigation was a rise in abandoned children which lead authorities to wonder if all of these children were really abandoned or if something fishy was going on. However, based on my understanding and what the article itself said, it harder to adopt a child into the US who is abandoned and who has no birth parents to state their intentions for placing this child for adoptions. Am I correct in this and isn't this why some children from Haiti are not allowed to be adopted by US families, because of their orphan status? And if this is true, it doesn't seem very truthful to report this as a cause for concern because wouldn't that mean Americans would not be allowed to adopt the children mentioned in the article?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com