Child slavery in Haiti is making the news again.
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It took me 30 months to legally adopt Beverly and David. I will not tell you the wait was easy. There were days when I was so into me and my wait that I had trouble seeing the big picture. On those days, I would withdraw from discussions about adoption. After a few days, I would declare an end to my pity party. I am not saying there isn’t a plethora of red tape surrounding international adoption. There is. But, I can understand why it is like that. What I can’t understand is how you can bring a child into the US illegally faster than you can bring a child in legally. It is hard to believe that this can happen in our world.
As a Christian who has been surprised by the stance of so many Christian organizations and groups against open adoption, I want to point out that closed record adoptions, more specifically the trail of lies that closed record adoption leaves, opens the door for illegal practices that put children and mothers at risk. I pray for the day the universal church supports honest, open adoptions.
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Mrs. C // 9 July 2008 at 11:41 am
This is awful. I saw the video; thanks for link. I thought I saw somewhere that it was a common custom in Haiti to send your daughters into the city when they’re about 9 or so to be maids for other families.
I’m not sure about open records preventing illegal practices, though. Didn’t the guy on the video say he could come up with papers? He could have made up a birth name and all that and the kid might later go on a wild goose chase hunting for some woman who doesn’t even exist.
I’m glad to see the openness and transparency you want to show in this adoption. It’s too bad that agencies don’t always want to be as honest.
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