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 is valuable [...]
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From Ethica: Ethica is pleased to announce our new outreach initiative to give voice to the adoption community on a state by state level. We as an organization have long fought the battle of dealing with issues on a state by state basis, and we have developed the Ethica50 initiative to respond to the ever [...]
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The State Department has posted a new “Fact Sheet” for Vietnam, dated June 2008. While much of the information is a re-wording of previous announcements, there is some new information here, including the following: Over the course of 28 months (January 2006 to April 2008), 1403 orphans adopted from Vietnam were issued visas to the [...]
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Many people don’t realize that Ethica is primarily a volunteer effort. Most of the people working for Ethica do not get paid and in fact pay for much of Ethica’s expenses out of their own pockets. Ethica is in a unique position of standing in the middle – representing birth families, children and adoptive families. [...]
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