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Payments to Ethiopia soared before local adoption agency collapsed

February 27, 2010

BY BRIAN CALDWELL, RECORD STAFF

CAMBRIDGE — Money going to an orphanage in Ethiopia allegedly soared in the year before an international adoption agency in Cambridge went bankrupt last summer.

The collapse of Imagine Adoption in July stunned more than 400 families hoping to adopt children and triggered a criminal fraud investigation.

Published: February 27, 2010

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Hillary Clinton and the Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children

By Dr. Paul Kengor

German twins' father makes desperate plea

27 Feb 2010, 1528 hrs IST

Time has almost run out for Jan Balaz to get his surrogate twin son Leonard and Nikolas Balaz back with him to Germany, with Balaz's visa expiring in a matter of days. Speaking to your channel Balaz says he's been told that he will not receive an extension.

Meanwhile, apparently unconcerned and notwithstanding the tense visa situation, the Indian judicial system continues to plod along at its usual pace, with the next hearing scheduled in the Supreme Court on March 16. Aggravating the situation is the snail's pace of Indian bureaucracy - although admittedly there is no legal guideline on the subject of citizenship (by birth) of surrogate children, the executive has been unwilling to resolve the matter of the twins by making a one-time exception on humanitarian grounds as it is reluctant to set a precedent.

The children were born in 2008 to a surrogate mother in Gujarat, but biologically descended from German parents. The Ministry of External Affairs, through the Regional Passport Office, initially granted a passport to the twins under the 'tatkal' scheme but later issued a notice withdrawing the passports.

February 27, 2010

The single adoptive mum

Seven years ago, desperate for a baby, Jane Clarke went to India

Jane Clarke with her adopted daughter Maya

Penny Wark

Caring for vulnerable children

Caring for very sick children

UK

£20,000

From refurbishing children’s bedrooms and a medical treatment room, to purchasing specialist equipment and supporting annual running costs, the Halcrow Foundation has helped St Martin’s children hospice in Yorkshire over a number of years.

Haiti's children held hostage by UNICEF's agenda

Posted: February 26, 2010

1:00 am Eastern

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By the age of 8, Bernard had been living alone as a beggar on the streets of Haiti for more than a year. His mother abandoned him when he was 7. He has not seen her since. Two weeks ago, Dr. John Leininger, president of Harvest International and long-time veteran of Haitian orphan relief, found Bernard. The boy was begging, hungry, filthy and covered in scabies, a contagious skin disease caused by a species of mite that burrow in the skin and create rashes, sores and extreme itching. With Bernard's consent, he was taken to the orphanage for medical treatment, food and some TLC. He has not left since.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Sad state of adoption in Australia

Australians have the option of adopting internationally from 14 different countries. As I mentioned late last year, the Ethiopia program is currently suspended pending investigation and a decision by the Attorney General. Other programs are now dropping like flies. Philippines have placed a moratorium on adoption of children 24 months and younger. The Fiji program is on hold until a bilateral agreement can be reached.

Some countries have placed small quotas on the number of files it will accept from Australia this year (for example, Lithuania will only accept TWO files from each central authority for adoption of children under age 6), and other countries have obscene waiting times (for example, China is nearly up to four years from the time they receive your file, and all indicators suggest it is going to get much worse before it gets better.)

Local adoption is so scarce it is almost non-existent.

Get a womb: Gay couples outsource Indian mothers

By Saritha Rai - GlobalPost

Published: February 26, 2010 09:55 ET

BANGALORE, India — In a building smack in the middle of chaotic Hyderabad, an hour’s flight from Bangalore, 29-year-old American Brad Fister recently got acquainted with the delirious joy of first-time parenthood.

Fister and his partner Michael Griebe, who own a computer business in Kentucky, contracted a womb from an Indian surrogate mother thousands of miles away in Hyderabad. Their daughter Ashton, conceived in a laboratory out of Fister’s sperm and an anonymous donor’s egg, was born in mid-February.