Posted in Ethics on Mar 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Family planning quotas, a country’s limit on the number of children a family is allowed to have, are often cited as a reason children are available for international adoption. For example, adoption service providers often refer to China’s so-called “one child” policy when explaining to prospective adoptive parents why children, especially girls, are placed for [...]
Posted in Ethics, Experiences, In The News, US Embassy in Hanoi on Feb 25th, 2010 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Ethics on Feb 23rd, 2010 3 Comments »
From www.monstersandcritics.com via Deutsche Presse-Agentur:
Hanoi – High among the jagged limestone peaks that mark Vietnam’s border with Laos, Cao Thi Thu squats on the stone floor of her family’s hut and pleads, “Please help bring my daughters home.”
It is more than three years since officials came to Thu’s village and offered her the chance to [...]
Posted in Ethics on Jan 25th, 2010 2 Comments »
On January 14th and 15th, Vietnamese and foreign officials met in Da Nang to discuss child rights issues and adoption. The workshop was sponsored by Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice.
VietnamPlus reported:
According to the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam has about 1.47 million disadvantaged children, including 85,000 orphans, 1.3 million disabled, 21,900 street [...]
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