Twenty-one members of Congress sent a letter on February 9 to the Prime Minister and President of Kyrgyzstan, where more than 60 adoptions by American families have been stalled for the past four years. At least two children have died in institutional care during the long wait; now it appears the Kyrg government has placed some of the children matched with US families in domestic adoption. Here is the bulk of the letter; the last line I've excerpted is the kicker:
Categories
- Adoptee Support
- Adoption Agencies
- Adoption Attorneys
- Adoption Critics
- Adoption in the Media
- Adoption Loss
- Adoption Medicine
- Adoption Policy
- Adoptive Parenting
- Adult Adoptees
- Africa
- Angelina Jolie
- Birth Parents
- Birth Searches
- Bloggers
- Books
- Breastfeeding in adoption
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Celebrities
- China
- Colombia
- Congressional Coalition on Adoption
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Fertility Treatment
- Film
- Foster Care
- Ghana
- Giveaways
- Global Orphan Crisis
- Guatemala
- Hague Convention of Inter-country Adoption
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Ireland
- Kazakhstan
- Korea
- Kyrgyzstan
- Liberia
- Lithuania
- Madonna
- Malawi
- Morocco
- Music
- Nepal
- Older Child Adoption
- Philippines
- Portugal
- Refugees
- Religion
- Romania
- Russia
- South Korea
- Teenage Adoptees
- Television
- Transracial Adoption
- Travel
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- UNICEF
- United States
- US State Department
- Vietnam
- World Bank
For More About International Adoption
- All the Social Orphans
Suffolk University Law Professor Sara Dillon on International Children's Rights and Social Orphan Policy - Center for Adoption Policy
Center for Adoption Policy provides research, analysis, advice and education to practitioners and the public about current legislation and practices governing ethical domestic and intercountry adoption in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. - Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
Educates federal policy makers about the need for adoption reform, and coordinates efforts of policy makers and public groups to improve the lives of children. - Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Program
The Child Advocacy Program (CAP) at Harvard Law School is committed to advancing children's interests through facilitating productive interaction between academia and the world of policy and practice, and through training generations of students to contribute in their future careers to law reform and social change. - Joint Council on International Children's Services
Adoption advocacy organization comprised of adoption agencies.
