But, you know what? I am a little fed up with it all. Okay, more than fed up with it all. I am tired of reading the Bull Shit stories about how fathers could relinquish their children or how Polygamists have hundreds of children in foster care. I get nauseous every time I read or hear about another parent hurting or killing their child. And I am just sick of people telling me that adoption is Baby Stealing when some people don’t even WANT their own children.

How am I supposed to continue to be fair and say kind words about people when the world is just not fair to these kids? The world was not fair to my son and look what he has to deal with every single day.

Tell me…do you want me to be fair or do you want my truth?

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Fairness in a World That Just Isn’t

“It is tragic for children that the U.S. government has not been able to find ways to work with the Vietnamese government to prevent adoption abuses while at the same time processing legitimate adoptions,” said Tom Atwood, president of the Washington-based National Council for Adoption, a research and advocacy organization.

“Many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of children will not have families as a result of this failure of leadership.”

Will keep you updated on this but in the meantime the AP has great details. Please read.

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Vietnam Halts US Adoptions

The new report is a nine page report detailing brokers who “scour villages for babies, hospitals selling infants whose mothers cannot pay their bills, and a grandmother giving away her grandchild-without telling the child’s mother.”

Vietnam is denying these claims stating that orphanage directors possibly take bribes but baby-selling is not an issue.

What happens in several cases is that adoption agencies provide donations to orphanages in return for referrals. If referrals are scarce orphanages will then go “scouting” for children to refer to the adoption agencies. This, unfortunately, is where the fraud comes in to play.

However, perhaps the entire system is somewhat fraudulent? If the adoption agencies were not funding the orphanages through donations (the main source of income) then the orphanage would not feel pressure to find children?

At this time Vietnam adoptions are very popular among US families, especially after Angelina Jolie’s adoption of Pax. Adoptions were up over 400 percent last year.

The current Vietnam/US adoption agreement expires on September 1. The US is suggesting a similar DNA test to Guatemala to help prevent fraud.

The US has also recommended that US adoptive parents not begin any new paperwork with Vietnam.

For more information about Vietnam adoption visit the Adopt Vietnam.

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Vietnam Corrupts Adoptions?