This just in and too good to keep to myself. I’m posing it without comment:
Heidi Cox from Gladney is teaching a webinar on adoption ethics.
Say say it isn’t so, Chuck!
The National Council For Adoption is pleased to announce an important and timely Adoption Ethics Webinar on Thursday, March 25, 2010. This three hour seminar will be accredited for three hours of CEU from Catholic University School of Social Work and reviewed for three hours of accreditation from the Texas and Virginia Bar Association for attorneys.
The presenters are two highly regarded attorneys who also represent the adoption community.
Moderator: Chuck Johnson, National Council For Adoption
· Heidi Bruegel Cox, the Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Gladney Center for Adoption
· William P. Rosen III, Attorney and Co-founder of La Vida International and Chair of the International Adoption Committee, American Academy of Adoption Attorneys
As of this posting the announcement isn’t posted on the NCFA page, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. Could I make this up?
Barf!!!!
HA HA AHA AH AHA HAHAHHAHHAHha lhahah haa haa hhaaa………….sigh.
It’s really not that funny.. because they are actually serious!
PLS SIGN THIS PETITION
Monday, February 22, 2010
Call for Full Investigation into Amelya Frances Kirkpatrick’s Adoption in Utah
According to a court document obtained by PEAR, on February 9, 2010, Scott and Karen Banks, former owners of adoption agency Focus on Children, were allowed to adopt another child, originally from China. The Banks were indicted on 135 Federal counts in 2007 for a fraudulent adoption scheme in Samoa. In 2009, they pled guilty to Aiding and Abetting the Improper Entry of an Alien in a plea deal made with the US Attorney’s office in Utah. They were given a sentence of five years probation during which time they are forbidden to participate in the adoption business and are required to make payment into a trust for the victims.
The recent adoption occurred after evidence of their illegal activities with their Samoan adoption program were put on record in Utah courts. Also supplied was information regarding the Banks two previously adopted Romanian children.
According to numerous media sources and their now-adult Romanian daughter’s own affidavit, this child and her sibling were flown to Samoa by Scott Banks and left without legal documentation in 2000, leaving these adoptees in a legal limbo. In addition, according to an affidavit given by their caregiver in Samoa, the Banks have had no contact with either child since their arrival, nor have they supported the children in any way since abandoning them in Samoa.
Furthermore, a third child of the Banks, suffering from cerebral palsy and also adopted from Romania, has been alleged in various documents to have been severely neglected in their home. This child was placed in a group home in Utah.
PEAR believes that anyone convicted of crimes involving children should be barred from the possibility of adopting any other children. We also believe that any parents convicted of or with a history of legitimate allegations of child abuse and neglect should be barred from adopting children.
PEAR opposes any practice that does not protect the rights of the child to live a life free from abuse and neglect with qualified and loving adoptive parents. To not hold these rights paramount in an adoption proceeding undermines every moral and ethical standard that each child deserves.
We are sponsoring a petition to be sent to the Governor of Utah asking his office to open an investigation into how and why this family was allowed to adopt another child given their dubious history. If you agree with the statements made please take a moment to sign the petition.
The petition can be found at http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/utahadoption/
Measure passed by PEAR’s board 2/19/2010
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And adoption ethics is…?????? All in 3 hours too! Good going!Love that you used Dame Edna!Onya!
I know, Von It’ an oxymoron.
Hi BD, just in case you are not aware of the latest in Ethiopia, there’s this-
Adoption watchdog suppresses Ethiopia findings
And after that, we will have Mr. Fox leading a didactic on the care and well-being of hens. Adoption ethics is, indeed, an oxymoron.
Marley I thought you may be interested in this report from our national T V station in Oz about the American adoption agencies and Ethiopia adoptions.
ps because of this report and a previous one Australia has halted adoptions from Ethiopia until further notice.Linda.
U.S.A. – Fly Away Home
A 7 year old Ethiopian girl is portrayed as destitute and in grave danger. She is in fact 13 and has been well cared for much to the surprise of her adopting family. Then there are the children told they’re just visiting a foreign land who are in fact on a one way ticket. This is the powerful next instalment of Foreign Correspondent’s investigation of international adoption in Ethiopia and the United States that began with 2009’s Fly Away Children
tp://www.abc.net.au/foreign/