International adoption requirements must be revised in order to allow more children to have homes. The United States adoption agencies need to work hand in hand with international agencies in order for the adoption process to move quickly. Waiting 12-14 months for a just a referral is enough to shy families away from adoption.
This complex policy has families waiting more than a year to even meet a child and to top it all off, their religion becomes a factor. Religion should not play a factor when adopting a child because everyone has their own rights to religion. Requesting what gender and age of child should not be allowed. When you get pregnant you don’t decided the sex of your baby, so why should it matter now. Older children are not being adopted as much because most families want a baby. If the factor of not being able to choose wasn’t there, then older kids would have a better chance of being adopted. The policy requires the family’s marriage to be more than 10 years. Most families have kids before they have been married for 10 years, so this rule can easily allow more couples to apply.
Haiti is in a crisis and hundreds of children have become orphaned due to the fact. The adoption agency in Haiti made a mistake and closed all adoption applications for the time being. The United States needs to step in right now and take over that process. Allowing families to adopt these children now would be a blessing because the kids would be safe and out of Haiti. But instead the Haitian government is too afraid to let these kids leave due to trafficking. Let’s put trafficking into a new light for everyone to consider. If the adoption process wasn’t so long and open right now, then the kids in Haiti wouldn’t be trafficked, they would have families. The government in Haiti is allowing trafficking to happen by turning their heads the other way and focusing on a different issue. Making plans to revise the adoption policy could stop trafficking and make Haiti a better place to live.
Haiti has too many current orphans at this moment that are not eligible for adoption for 1-2 years because of the earth quake. Haiti needs to take a stand and allow these children to be eligible. The government would be helping themselves out because that would be one less child to worry about being trafficked.
International adoption is a long and complex process that most families don’t want to go though. They would much rather adopt from the United States because the process is easier. We need to step up and help the International policy become easier and more appealing. Revising the policy may take years but when the next disaster strikes, the kids will already have homes.
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I had no idea that a married couple had to be married for 10 years before adopting. I guess I fail to see why this is important, especially since single people can adopt children. I never knew that trafficking was such a problem in Haiti. It just goes to show you that it takes a major disaster for certain issues to be acknowledged.
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