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	<title>Voices for Vietnam Adoption Integrity &#187; Experiences</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>
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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>Fighting for &#8220;orphans&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/07/24/fighting-for-orphans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2009/07/24/fighting-for-orphans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last few weeks, I&#8217;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&#8217;t know who the cameraman is. I was there to evaluate a health-promotion project sponsored by a non-governmental organization [NGO], hosted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If, Indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/10/18/if-indeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chosing An Agency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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>
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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>Summary of Irregularities in Adoptions in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/25/summary-of-irregularities-in-adoptions-in-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/25/summary-of-irregularities-in-adoptions-in-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the US Embassy, Hanoi released a summary of irregularities in adoptions in Vietnam that is the longest and most thorough, to date.  Likewise they have also released a Warning Concerning Adoptions in Vietnam which states, in part (emphasis mine):
On April 25, the Government of Vietnam announced that it will allow adoption to  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Leaked DNA Memo</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/02/the-leaked-dna-memo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/04/02/the-leaked-dna-memo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s my guess that everyone connected to Vietnam adoptions has seen the internal USCIS memo regarding a new DNA requirement that was posted on Bring Our Children Home yesterday. This memo was news to us as it was to most people in the adoption community &#8211; although it appears that USCIS did notify some agencies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>unintended messages</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/15/unintended-messages/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/15/unintended-messages/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote my last post, it was never my intention to malign the writers of the recent petition. I did not mean to give the impression that I thought they were pushing for anything unethical or even asking our government to cut corners. I believe the writers had the very best intentions when they drafted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethica Launches New Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/03/ethica-launches-new-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2008/01/03/ethica-launches-new-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ethica launched a new blog in December. It&#8217;s a place for all members of the adoptive community (Adoptive Parents, Agencies, Adoptees, and First Parents) to share their views and opinions. It&#8217;s also a place where representatives of Ethica share opinions and information. Of special interest to the VN adoptive community may be this post in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Visit to Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2007/11/20/a-visit-to-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2007/11/20/a-visit-to-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[PSBI Pearl S Buck Welcome House WH adoption Vietnam ado]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

This contribution is republished from the November 2007 Welcome House newsletter, with permission. Thank you, Leonette, for allowing us to share this wonderfully balanced insight into the state of adoption in Vietnam right now! ~ VVAI
By Leonette Boiarski, Welcome House® Director












Children at Nha Trang Orphanage.



In October, I had the pleasure of visiting Vietnam. Over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Commentary: Why I am taking this personally</title>
		<link>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2007/11/13/guest-commentary-why-i-am-taking-this-personally/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adoptionintegrity.com/2007/11/13/guest-commentary-why-i-am-taking-this-personally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following commentary is written by Tracy, an adoptive parent of two children.
I was a PLAN family, I try not to say that very often because 1) I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s relevant to most of what I post and 2) in many peoples eyes it automatically discredits anything I am about to say. I am [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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