What about the kids?

Haiti is in wreckage and we are all concerned with these people getting help. But has anyone stopped to think about the children? I was wondering how these kids are being cared for and what happens to them if their parents were killed in the earth quake. According to New York Times, orphans are being airlifted to the US. There are 53 kids that have flown to the US because their orphanage was destroyed. These children were matched with American couples and most of them are being adopted. What I find interesting is Haitian law makes it hard to adopt a child because not all these kids are legitimate orphans because most of them are trafficked. So the kids who "appear" to be orphaned due to the quake were flow to Florida and put into group homes. These kids are not being adopted because they are looking for remaining family members in Haiti.

The government was reluctant to let these kids go and my question is why? Why wouldn't you want these kids to have a safe home and get what they need to be healthy? I think the government needs to look at the larger picture for the kids and let them be flown to the US. Wandering around Haiti is not going to help and most of the people can hardly help themselves. I realize it is a long process to adopt a child from other countries, but why not let that rule drop for the situation. One thing that really made me mad was when Haitian officials were only 28 of 54 go because not all of them have been cleared for adoption or matched with a family. You would think the safety of these children would be first priority. It took the director to say if they don't all go then none of them go. Good for her for standing up for these kids and looking out for their needs.

After reading this article I realized that Haiti has a lot of issues that are going to take years to fix. America can only do so much and if that means adopting these kids, then that's what we need to do.