InterCountry and Interracial Adoption Resources
Intercountry and interracial resources supporting the goals of family preservation and ethical adoption..
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 Adoptee Advocacy, Education and Research Services We are adult adoptees that are doing research, education and advocacy to enlighten the world in the areas of international and Domestic adoption . We are working towards ending the myth that adoption always leads to a better life. The belief that adoption always leads to a better life is a prejudicial response. International and Domestic adoption is not ethical as it stands now. Adoption is a multi billion dollar industry primarily benefiting adoption agencies under the guise of protecting and saving unwanted children. Adoption industries have priorities that are financially motivated first which means the needs of the children are secondary. Not all adoptees were unwanted children and adoptions occur without the parents voluntarily relinquishing their children. We are educating about child trafficking that has been disguised as adoption. Out of all the children that are trafficked the most undetected happens through international adoption. The Hague Conference on Private international Law back in 1995 initiated the Convention On Protection Of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption which has now been ratified by 70 countries and yet still has a long way to go to take it from paper into action. |
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Against Child Trafficking A Market in Children is inconsistent with the Rights of the Child The last fifty years an adoption industry has developed that serves the growing demand for children in the Western world. An industry in which huge sums of money are involved. Children are obtained for adoption through coercion, fraud and kidnapping, but also through too permissive laws on child relinquishment and/or too rapid termination of parental rights. In many cases unscrupulous go-betweens have found that large profits can be made by arranging the transfer of children from poverty-stricken homes to people with means. Many such children are sold for money (disguised as adoption fees) either through independent adoptions or through licensed and accredited adoption agencies and regulated by adoption laws. ACT considers that this represents a demand-driven market in children, which should be labelled as child trafficking. |
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Hague Evaluation A a pragmatic source of information about the changes in intercountry adoption by Karen S. Rotabi and Kelley McCreery Bunker |
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The Hague Convention on International Adoption Complete text of treaty |
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International Adoption Facts Child Trafficking: Crimes of the International Adoption Industry Providing information on criminal activity and ethical violations committed by the international adoption industry. |
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Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) KAAN's mission is to support networking and build understanding among Adoptees, Adoptive Families, Koreans And Korean Americans. |
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Korean Unwed Mothers Support Network The Korean Unwed Mothers Support Network advocates for the rights of unwed pregnant women, unwed mothers and their children in Korea. The Network’s goal is to enable Korean women to have sufficient resources and support to keep their babies if they chose and thrive in Korean society, rather than feel compelled to give up their children for adoption or risk a life of poverty. |
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TRACK TRACK advocates for a transparent understanding of the practice of adoption, both past and present, to preserve the rights of children and families. TRACK aims to establish an independent truth and reconciliation commission to include the adoptees and their stories within modern Korean history. TRACK recognizes that true reconciliation is a precondition to build a brighter collective future. |
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United Adoptees International UNITED ADOPTEES INTERNATIONAL The UAI is an organisation run and managed by adoptees. Foremost in the Netherlands but with great help and support from adoptees and adoptee supporting organisations worldwide. The UAI is a foundation focussing on helping Adoptees, data mining and reviewing and commenting on Human Rights issues endangering childrights everyday again. The UAI is not against adoption but against all the side effects which appears everyday in (internationa)l adoption. We believe, that (Intercountry) adoption should be a last resort for children in need for a family and not a third option and facility for childless couples in the West. If adoption is an option, than all the requirements for a tracable and correct adoption procedure should be fulfilled before any adoption is executed. The UAI became last few years an important opinion leader in the Netherlands and abroad in the field of Intercountry Adoption (ICA). |
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U.S. State Dept - Office of Children's Issues Official information and updates on InterCountry Adoption |
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Inter-Country Adoptee Support Network (ICASN) The Inter-Country Adoptee Support Network (ICASN) has been set up to provide support to Adoptees who have been adopted cross-culturally. The term Inter-Country Adoptee (ICA) generally refers to those who are raised in a country of origin different to their country of birth but will be used loosely within ICASN to include any adoptee who experiences cross-cultural aspects of adoption. |
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