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 Advocacy, Ethics, Experiences on Jul 24th, 2009 6 Comments »
In the last few weeks, I’ve had a slight problem: raging internal conflict.
Meet Little Guy.
I had a minor obsession with him.
He was in an orphanage in central Vietnam. I was the bad photographer. I don’t know who the cameraman is. I was there to evaluate a health-promotion project sponsored by a non-governmental organization [NGO], hosted [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Chosing An Agency, Ethics, Experiences, The Process on Oct 18th, 2008 7 Comments »
As a former PAP, who is now a P and AP, I am grateful to Mirah, Amyadoptee and Stella for their comments on the last post. Do I agree with all of their points of view? No, but I am still grateful. Because left to myself, I would not have the value of the perspective [...]
Posted in Experiences on Oct 16th, 2008 29 Comments »
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 [...]
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