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Kampala (AFP) - Authorities in Uganda have raised fears that the east African nation's children are being left vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by a staggering increase in unchecked overseas adoptions.
An official report, details of which were published on Tuesday by the New Vision newspaper, said a boom in what it called the "international adoption industry" had led to some children who were not even orphans being taken into care for adoption or child sponsorship schemes.
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The report said the boom in adoptions had led to a "rapidly increasing number of baby and children homes", with more than 500 such institutions now operating in the country.
"These homes have been reported to be removing children from families and communities and placing them into institutional settings and gradually exploiting these children for economic reasons through child sponsorship schemes," it said.
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"The report fails to recognise the criminal, intimidating and unethical activities that are being carried out by lawyers, orphanages and adoption agencies to ensure that children continue to be made available for international adoption rather than be resettled with their own families or placed into families in-country," he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/uganda-fears-children-overseas-adoptions-boom-160122097.html
me b zola
(19,053 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)...because surely progressive and liberal minded people care about poor people in developing nations being exploited.
xmas74
(29,674 posts)so I can find the link after work and read through.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)Another poor country, where it will be almost impossible for parents to fight to get their children back.
When there is danger to a child, and there is no family that is able or safe to take that child in, adoption can be a wonderful blessing to the child and adoptive parents. It should always be undertaken as "what is best for this child?" not "how much money can be made out of the suffering of others?"
me b zola
(19,053 posts)Nations who are corrupt and/or have not signed on the the Geneva Convention's 'Rights of a Child' see nothing but $$ signs when it comes to impoverished family's young children. When you hear about someone trying to "ease the restrictions on adoptions", what they want is the ability for "black market babies" to be able to be washed with the stamp of legitimacy from the government of a "legal" adoption.
I can not begin to understand how progressives are not up in arms over this clear exploitation of poor families to big moneyed interest. Argh!
Thank you for caring, thank you for posting.
REP
(21,691 posts)Any criticism of the adoption industry is too often seen as a criticism of adoptive parents or even adoptees. While there is a small subset of adoptive parents (I'm thinking of fundamentalists who adopt, abuse and "trade" children out of a religious zeal) who are worthy of criticism, the adoption industry created those situations.
The old idea of adoption as somehow shameful or lesser is a good one to be free of, but the new one of a baby at any cost needs to be rethought. It harms so many people.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Why it's dropping is maddening. .
StevieM
(10,500 posts)go against everything a civilized society should stand for. They certainly go against the values that liberals are supposed to hold. But way too many progressives have bought into the the adoption industry propaganda.
If the American people only knew....