Posted in In The News on Nov 10th, 2007 3 Comments »
Adopting a Child in Vietnam from Thanh Nien News… “In 2006, around 300 children were adopted,” said Trinh Thi Bich from the Agency for Civil Status, Judicial Records and Nationality, “and this year so far we have processed 200 cases.” … Vietnam has an agreement on child adoption with eleven countries including France, Denmark, Italy, [...]
Posted in Ethics on Nov 3rd, 2007 12 Comments »
Before I begin a discussion about what defines an “ethical” adoption, I feel it is first necessary to define some basic terms. It’s hard to decide what “ethical” looks like if everyone has their own personal concept of the word. So let’s accept these objective dictionary* definitions and go from there. ______________________________________________________________________ Legal: adj. 1. [...]
Posted in Chosing An Agency, Ethics, In The News on Nov 1st, 2007 113 Comments »
UPDATE: You can now read the Embassy statement directly on the Embassy website. For privacy reasons, the US Embassy in Hanoi can not discuss specific cases or comment on specific agencies. However, the Embassy believes it is important for people to have accurate information about the current situation in Vietnam and have kindly sent us [...]
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