Adoption of Vietnamese Babies on the Rise
Americans adopted 312 Vietnamese babies in the last six months of 2006.
In the first half of 2007, that rose to 418. U.S. Embassy officials predict it will grow to 1,000 by year’s end.
Vietnam, too, had problems with trafficking for adoption in the late 1990s. The director of Vietnam’s Department of Inter-Country Adoptions, Vu Duc Long, says in 2003, the country blocked all adoptions to the U.S. and several other countries while it reformed its procedures.
Long says in the 1990s and early in this decade, there were scores of cases of adoption brokering for profit, and dozens of officials were sent to prison.
In 2005, the country introduced a new adoption system and signed a new agreement on adoptions with the United States.
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I wonder, now that we are completely in the middle of a surge we have seen coming for months now, what is going to happen to the system. The system that is just starting to get taxed.
Something that is bothering me in regards t this and maybe it is selfish maybe not. Since China announced its longer times and stricter policies and Guatemala has had issues folks are leaving those programs coming to Vietnam programs thinking it will be a quicker fix(so to speak). We were in the process for Vietnam before the country even opened back up now 1 3/4 years later we wil hopefully travel next month. it is a long tiring process andnot just some fix. Back then when we started we looked at many countries and decided on Vietnam as our 1st choice not as somewhere to go to get a child because of issues other programs have. it seems some of the current wait time increases, so called corruption and govt issues really did not seem as big of a deal until all of this in other programs started.
Just my 2 cents is all but looks like that to me.