Comments on: Has Adoption Become “Child Trafficking?” http://www.growninmyheart.com/has-adoption-become-child-trafficking An Adoption Network Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:06:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Micahel Marek http://www.growninmyheart.com/has-adoption-become-child-trafficking#comment-673 Micahel Marek Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:38:35 +0000 http://www.achildchosen.com/has-adoption-become-child-trafficking/#comment-673 I appreciate the concern we have for the trafficking of children via international adoptions.However somehow we have not realized that unethical baby for profit adoptions occur domestically as well. The same realistic arguements used above should apply domestically however they don't when a single father attempts to fight the private adoption system.I have personal experience as an adoptee myself and as that father fighting for my daughter Savannah.Private adoption needs an oversight commitee.They need someone as an ethical barometer. I appreciate the concern we have for the trafficking of children via international adoptions.However somehow we have not realized that unethical baby for profit adoptions occur domestically as well. The same realistic arguements used above should apply domestically however they don’t when a single father attempts to fight the private adoption system.I have personal experience as an adoptee myself and as that father fighting for my daughter Savannah.Private adoption needs an oversight commitee.They need someone as an ethical barometer.

]]> By: Marcie http://www.growninmyheart.com/has-adoption-become-child-trafficking#comment-671 Marcie Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:19:11 +0000 http://www.achildchosen.com/has-adoption-become-child-trafficking/#comment-671 Fair enough. The research I found did not mention those things (of course it wouldn't if it was one sided, right?). And, that is why I appreciate comments like yours and readers like you. I try my hardest to find the most accurate research out there and I spend hours (sometimes days) on posts like these. Russian parents also place children in orphanages until they can care for them, BTW. Please keep reading. I like your insight. Fair enough. The research I found did not mention those things (of course it wouldn’t if it was one sided, right?). And, that is why I appreciate comments like yours and readers like you. I try my hardest to find the most accurate research out there and I spend hours (sometimes days) on posts like these.

Russian parents also place children in orphanages until they can care for them, BTW.

Please keep reading. I like your insight.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.growninmyheart.com/has-adoption-become-child-trafficking#comment-672 Kathy Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:30:04 +0000 http://www.achildchosen.com/has-adoption-become-child-trafficking/#comment-672 Please don't perpetuate stereotypes. There isn't one case of a child being ripped from their mother's arms during Operation Babylift. At worst, some families put children in orphanages with the expectation to get them back some time in the future, and these children were adopted, legally, approved by the Vietnamese government at the time. Orphanages and how they work in Vietnam and the Vietnamese cuture's concept of "orphans" was different than the Western perception. Nothing is perfect and Operation Babylift wasn't perfect. But to use that stereotype to bolster your argument (which I don't have an issue with) is unfair to the people who worked for years if not decades with children in Vietnam to protect them and keep them safe and who prompted the airlift, not the U.S. government. Please don’t perpetuate stereotypes. There isn’t one case of a child being ripped from their mother’s arms during Operation Babylift. At worst, some families put children in orphanages with the expectation to get them back some time in the future, and these children were adopted, legally, approved by the Vietnamese government at the time. Orphanages and how they work in Vietnam and the Vietnamese cuture’s concept of “orphans” was different than the Western perception. Nothing is perfect and Operation Babylift wasn’t perfect. But to use that stereotype to bolster your argument (which I don’t have an issue with) is unfair to the people who worked for years if not decades with children in Vietnam to protect them and keep them safe and who prompted the airlift, not the U.S. government.

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