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Parents criticize DanAdopt for failure

AWAY. A scene from the documentary. When parents here seeks DanAdopt office in Addis Ababa to ask for news about their children four years after adoption, they are thrown out. - Photo: Frithiof Film

Adoptive parents of the girl Masho has been the target of much anger. Even experienced an adoption, how much did not go by the book.

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US-Russia spat puts adoption couple in limbo

By Robert MacPherson (AFP) – 31 minutes ago

WASHINGTON — Heather and Aaron Whaley just wanted to start a family with a four-year-old Russian girl nicknamed Addie who they found on the Internet but have yet to see in person.

Never did they expect to find themselves caught up in a souring of relations between Moscow and Washington over human rights.

The Whaleys are among several US couples whose pending adoptions of Russian children are in limbo after President Vladimir Putin signed legislation barring Americans from adopting Russian youngsters.

NEWS

28 NOV 12

Romania Releases New Adoption Figures

Over 700 Romanian children have been adopted so far in 2012, while some 1,200 families have been cleared for adoption in the country, officials have announced.

Romanian Insider

Saddleback aims for zero orphans in Rwanda

by ASSIST News ServicePosted: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 11:55 (GMT)

In honour of World AIDS Day on 1 December, Saddleback Church is setting its own goal of reaching zero orphans throughout Rwanda by 2015.

The target is supplemental to UNAIDS' three-year strategy of "Getting to Zero", including zero babies born of HIV, zero AIDS-related deaths, zero new HIV infections and zero stigma and discrimination.

"This is a very audacious goal - to help a country be the first to empty their orphanages, helping 3,000 children become part of permanent families, but we know with God all things are possible," said Kay Warren, founder of Saddleback Church's HIV&AIDS Initiative.

Biological mother: Too late to get Masho back
28th November 2012 at. 20:38 It's too late to get my daughter back, says the biological mother of the Ethiopian girl Masho. But the father is ready to get her back. © Frithiof Film
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There is no question of sending nine-year Masho back to Ethiopia. It is too late - Masho have lived too long in Denmark and has been Dane.

So says Wednesday evening from the girl's biological mother, Sinknesh Haile Mariam, according to TV 2 News has traveled down to visit his mother and father.

The biological parents live in a small poor village 300 kilometers from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

Is concerned
In a clip on TV 2 News The website sees parents become deeply concerned when they hear about her daughter's situation in Denmark.

Read also OVERVIEW: Here are the requirements to parents before adoption

- After I saw the movie, I really was worried. Especially when you look Masho try to help carry a bag, then rejects her mother. I can see that Masho feel alone, says mother Sinknesh Haile Mariam.

Dad wants her home
But there is great discussion ions at home on Masho. The father is in fact ready to get her daughter back even after five years.

- I am the biological father. And I would be happy again if I could be allowed to take care of my own child, says Hussen Immishu.

The case in brief:
The case of Masho presented in the documentary "adoption come price".

Here, then, how the four-year Ethiopian girl was adopted by a Danish couple from Holbaek, although the girl apparently was fine with her biological parents.

Also read Psychologist: Parents need to be prepared for adoption come Price

The biological parents, however, had been diagnosed with HIV and had been told that they would die within a few years.

This was not as free medicine from the state keeps them alive.

The documentary was followed then the girl's life in Holbaek, where it went awry with the adoptive parents, who had been unable girl's violent reaction to being removed from his biological parents - and they were allegedly did not have the necessary means to cope with problems with her daughter.

Also read Adoption Parents: OK we get beat now

The Danish parents ended up abandoning the girl, who now lives in orphanages.

Mashos biennial brother, who came to Denmark while her lives with his Danish parents and well.

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Biologisk mor: For sent at få Masho tilbage

Documentary puts Danadopt on the spot

27. nov. 2012 12.54 English

Adoption agency Danadopt is facing fierce criticism after the premiere of a new Danish documentary that features an Ethiopian couple reluctantly giving up their two children, aged 2 and 4, for adoption in Denmark.

"To me, it looks an awful lot like human trafficking," said documentary filmmaker Katrine W. Kjær, the maker of the film Mercy Mercy.

A number of MPs now feel adoptions to Denmark from abroad should be put on hold, until evidence shows that no-one is being coerced into putting their child up for adoption.

UNICEF: Many children not to Denmark
27th November 2012 at. 09:50 Updated 27th November 2012 at. 10:06 Parents get the impression that their children will come back one day and that they will be able to follow their development in Denmark. But it happens ikke.Foto: from documentary adoption come Price © TV2
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 Katja Sønder Tuxen

If the adoption of children from other countries should not end in tragedy, we need to focus on that adoption should always be in the child's best interests and no one else.

It says Secretary General of UNICEF, Steen M. Andersen in P1 morning after TV2 documentary adoption come price, which was shown on Monday night.

- Is adoption in the child's interest or it is not in the child's interest? It is the only thing that will decide whether to find adoption takes place or not. Not if it's the parents, not the government, not whether it is in the orphanage or adoption agency interest, says Steen M. Andersen.

Ends in tragedy
In the film we see how the HIV-infected parents reluctantly becomes persuaded to disregard adopt their two children, aged two and four years on promises that they would follow the children's development in Denmark.

But especially the oldest girl Masho found not to be linked to the Danish parents, and therefore ends up family life as a nightmare and Masho sent to the end of the orphanage.

- In this case there is no doubt that the adoption was in the child's interest, says Steen M. Andersen.

Let the child be nearby
Steen M. Andersen stresses that many adopted children come into good, loving families where things are going well.

But in many cases, you should consider whether it is not better is in the child's interest, if it is not going to live in so foreign a country like Denmark.

- One should first look at whether there are others who can take care of the baby nearby before choosing to disregard adopt a completely different country. It can be either in the extended family or a foster family, or it could be adoption within the country, so the child does not also exposed to culture clashes, says Steen M. Andersen.

Culture clash is particularly evident in the adoption come price because it looks as if the parents get the impression that their children just to be looked after by some others who will take good care of them and give them an education, but they will come back to Ethiopia again .

Lifting Bridal
But the promise that they will be allowed to follow the children's development are not met, and in general it seems that they have not known exactly what they were getting into when they said yes available for adoption.

It has got several politicians to talk about human beings and raises the question of whether there was in any way economic interests involved in adoption proceedings.

Read the Political outrage at adoption case

- According to the so-called Hague Convention, there shall be no financial interest in adoption. So in addition to the costs that are for aircraft and dissemination, there must not be a profit on the bottom line. But Ethiopia has not acceded to the Convention, therefore, was to be the private agencies working in Ethiopia to be even more vigilant than they should, says Steen M. Andersen.

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Children to get families, not foster care

JOSEPHINE TOVEYNovember 22, 2012

EXCLUSIVE

ADOPTION will replace long-term foster care as the preferred method for finding homes for increasing numbers of children in NSW who cannot live with their own families, in a proposed historic shift in government policy.

Ukrainian study visit to London

19.11.12

In May 2012, Lumos hosted a study visit in London for a delegation from Ukraine. Organised in cooperation with Rinat Akhmetov Foundation for Development of Ukraine, the study visit included senior policy makers and service managers from the Dniepropetrovsk and Donetsk regions, as well as managers of children’s institutions and representatives from local NGOs that provide community services.

The delegates visited a range of services in London, including children’s centres, inclusive schools and foster care services. Judge Nicholas Crichton, CBE, a member of Lumos’ Board of Trustees, arranged for the delegates to sit in on a Family Court hearing. The visitors had the opportunity to observe a range of cases, such as parents who are drug addicts, who are being supported to address their addiction and improve their ability to look after their children. They also witnessed a number of adoptions being approved. Following the Court session, Judge Crichton answered the delegates’ questions, in order to explain the way the legal system in England and Wales operates in cooperation with other professionals to ensure the protection and appropriate care of vulnerable children.

Last week, Nina Tutova, Director of Children’s Services for Dniepropetrovsk region reflected on the visit, saying: “In London we saw so many excellent services, including small group homes for just five or six children. At first when I returned home I thought: this will never be possible in Ukraine. But after I reflected for a while I realised that many of the services I saw could be adapted to Ukraine and that the reform is possible. It will just take a long time”.