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	<title>Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity &#187; Christina</title>
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		<title>More Questions Than Answers</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2010/02/25/more-questions-than-answers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Experiences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Embassy in Hanoi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After posting the story yesterday about the Vietnamese Ruc people and their complaints about how they were deceived into relinquishing their children for adoption, I remembered where I had read this story before.
Anthropologist Peter Bille Larsen wrote an extensive article about their case back in May 2008.
In this article, I point raise to the specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Arrested For Trafficking In Southern Vietnamese Province</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/09/two-arrested-for-trafficking-in-southern-vietnamese-province/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/11/09/two-arrested-for-trafficking-in-southern-vietnamese-province/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dong Nai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trafficking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Agence France-Presse 
Police in Vietnam have arrested two people suspected of trafficking 20 babies in the communist country since 2007, a report said Monday.
The two suspects, a man and a woman detained Saturday in the southern province of Dong Nai, had confessed to buying the babies at hospitals in the south of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VN Draft Law Discussed At August 21st Meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/08/23/vn-draft-law-discussed-at-august-21st-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/08/23/vn-draft-law-discussed-at-august-21st-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[draft adoption law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Vietnamese Ministry of Justice held a meeting in coordination with the Vietnam office of UNICEF and HOLT International Children’s Services Vietnam this past Friday to discuss the new draft law on adoption.
According to Viet Nam Net:
Participants said it is essential that adoption be regulated by law to create stability in adoptive relations and conform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Madonna Effect</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/06/18/the-madonna-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He says that he&#8217;s going to marry me
We can raise a little family
Maybe we&#8217;ll be alright
Its a sacrifice
But my friends keep telling me to give it up
Saying I&#8217;m too young, I ought to live it up
What I need right now is some good advice, please
Daddy, daddy if you could only see
Just how good he&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Department Posts Update</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/05/06/state-department-posts-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/05/06/state-department-posts-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 13:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[US Department of State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new Adoption Notice was posted on the DOS Office of Children&#8217;s Issues website today.  In part it read,
U.S. citizens are not able to register a new adoption in Vietnam at this time. The Government of Vietnam has stated its intention to introduce new adoption legislation and to institute reforms in the adoption process, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Not In My Adoption&#8221;&#8230;What Price Ignorance?</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/03/12/not-in-my-adoptionwhat-price-ignorance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/03/12/not-in-my-adoptionwhat-price-ignorance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adoption Corruption has been in the headlines again recently. Perhaps many in the Vietnam-Adoptive community haven&#8217;t noticed because the countries in the spotlight this time around are Samoa and India. Relieved that our day in the spotlight is finally over, many in our community have chosen to move on and put the difficult and stressful days [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Resources On The Web For Prospective Adopters</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/11/19/new-resources-on-the-web-for-prospective-adopters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/11/19/new-resources-on-the-web-for-prospective-adopters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chosing An Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tools & Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of Childrens Issues in the U.S. State Department has created a new website specifically for International Adoptions, Intercountry Adoption.  This new site has much of the information previously provided through the travel.state.gov site plus more information about the Hague and more up to date statistics and charts for each country.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My View</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/10/16/my-view/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/10/16/my-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiences]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we reported earlier today,
The Government of Vietnam and the Government of the United States have agreed that U.S. citizens will not be able to adopt Vietnamese children until both countries sign a new agreement or Vietnam joins the Hague Convention. 
In the clearest and most official statement to date, prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCFA Issues Press Release on VN Special Needs Adoptions</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/10/11/ncfa-issues-press-release-on-vn-special-needs-adoptions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/10/11/ncfa-issues-press-release-on-vn-special-needs-adoptions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On October 10th, the National Council for Adoption issued a press release which said in part:
Although Vietnamese law allows for the processing of the adoption of children with special needs without a working agreement, NCFA is advocating extreme caution on the part of international adoption agencies and families matched with a Vietnamese child with special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese Meet To Review Adoption Procedures, Consider Restructuring</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/08/27/vietnamese-meet-to-review-adoption-procedures-consider-restructuring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/08/27/vietnamese-meet-to-review-adoption-procedures-consider-restructuring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In The News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Process]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Vietnamese officials met to review the three years of US-VN adoptions under the Agreement which is to expire on September 1st. The Vietnamese press published three articles on this meeting online, including an interview with the Head of the Ministry of Justice’s International Adoption Agency, Vu Duc Long.
The first article, &#8220;Tougher adoption regulations [...]]]></description>
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