Checking Boxes

[...] intercountry adoptions in Ethiopia in a manner consistent with its obligations under the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in respect of Intercountry Adoption. Australia is [...]

[...] hope and a future. We need stories like this to be told. There is/has been corruption in international adoption in a number of countries, and unless people are aware then there can be little done [...]

[...] . Again, it raised critical issues around child harvesting and trafficking for international adoption. I encourage you to take half an hour out to watch it (the video is online as well as the [...]

[...] . One thing took me by surprise and I've been thinking about it since. Some teen and adult adoptees sat on a panel to answer questions, and when one of the panel members was answering a [...]

[...] raised in an institution without a permanent loving family. I've read too many stories from adult adoptees to believe that transnational adoption is always the fairytale ending it's often made out to [...]

[...] community of other adoptees to journey with and learn from. I'm also grateful that as prospective adoptive parents we can learn from the mouths of adoptees as they share their experiences. One thing [...]

[...] by the arrangements. The following cases will be progressed: * cases where prospective adoptive parents have already been allocated a child from Ethiopia, and * cases where a child has [...]

I am numb. This news is so heartbreaking for my many friends currently in the Ethiopia program. The 'unknownness' of the future of the program is the [...]

[...] of adopting internationally from 14 different countries. As I mentioned late last year, the Ethiopia program is currently suspended pending investigation and a decision by the Attorney General. Other [...]

[...] I am numb. This news is so heartbreaking for my many friends currently in the Ethiopia program. The 'unknownness' of the future of the program is the hardest part. I've shed a lot of [...]

[...] route with that child. It's difficult for waiting families to know what to prepare for. Recent referrals have included toddler girls, toddler boys, lots of infant boys, and now extremely young [...]

[...] days. That makes it a grand total of 49 days referred in the past twelve months. The most recent referrals were logged in for over 41 months. Working on an average of 3.1 days of referrals a month, [...]

[...] the program enter into a formal agreement to provide community development assistance. The Australian program has previously been exempt from the requirement to provide financial/material assistance [...]

[...] #Interim The Attorney-General, the Hon Robert McClelland MP, has decided that the Ethiopia–Australia program should be suspended because of concerns that Australia can no longer conduct intercountry [...]