While many, many of our readers have questioned our motives, and even wondered if we are anti-adoption, we all feel that the ‘job’ we do here, voluntarily, due to conviction, is a job that is really important.
Why is it so important? Because we want adoption to continue. Yup, that’s the truth. As long as there is a genuine need for families for children, we are PRO-ADOPTION.
I am waiting for Vietnam to reopen. Our hearts are in Vietnam, and my husband and I feel that it is really important for our son to have sibling who shares his Vietnamese heritage. But if every safegaurd is not taken to ensure that the next child we adopt is not truly from Vietnam, from a family that TRULY could not care for him, we won’t adopt from Vietnam.
So that is why we keep posting links to articles like this reported in the Brisbane Times:
Baby-trafficking horror exposed
Mark Russell
May 24, 2009
CHILD-TRAFFICKING gangs were moving pregnant women from country to country, then waiting for them to give birth before selling their babies, Australia’s chief federal magistrate said yesterday.
John Pascoe said the infants were being sold mainly for illegal adoption but also for sexual exploitation, slavery and begging.
He said demand for babies who only knew their adoptive parents was high. “More importantly, the children have no official identity or proven nationality and, therefore, an identity can be easily forged to suit the purpose for which they are intended,” Mr Pascoe said in Singapore, addressing a conference on the trafficking in unborn children.
We don’t link to these article to try to bring down international adoption. In fact, we link to bring awareness to AP’s, PAP’s adult adoptees, and random people who stumble upon our blog, so that all of us together will not tolerate outright corruption, shoddy business practices, deception, scare tactics and greed as they relate to adoption, specifically adoption in Vietnam.
Read the links, decide for yourself where you stand. Are we going to disagree and have a dialogue sometimes? Of course. That is one of the many things that make us better parents and ultimately, better people.
Read the whole article here.
2 Responses
Thank you for this post.
And here is another article- just to share so that all news related to the state of children (specifically in VN) are available for readers:
http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=48895
Wow. These two articles really sum up the problems, don’t they? How do we ensure that kids like those described in Bella’s article, who really need homes, aren’t left behind due to situations like that described in Jena’s article?