I really don’t like to do this but sometimes you have to put your hands in the dirt and dig to set the record straight. The dirt is in this case a blog post from May 19 by Katie Jay on her site Children Deserve Families (http://childrendeservefamilies.com/...). Her blog is a promotion vehicle for a by now almost dead legislation proposal on international adoption, Children in Families First (CHIFF). Many people in the adoption world oppose this legislation, because it doesn’t address serious problems in international adoption - like fraud, child theft and trafficking, coercion, corruption - doesn’t develop serious ideas how to support child welfare in ‘donor’ countries and focuses essentially on adoption of foreign kids by US parents, facilitated by American adoption agencies and adoption lawyers. It is profound criticism by prominent adoptees, that is by those who lived the experience, and by welfare and adoption specialists in our country as well in countries like Ghana, Haiti en Uganda.
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