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13-07 12:27:40 Valentin Nas: pt Claudia: traficul de copii nu are legatura cu
adoptia internationala.
Pentru a vedea cine incearca (zadarnic) sa ASCUNDA ADEVARUL despre multiplele
ilegalitati, in special de partea ORGANIZATIILOR PRIVATE, din cazurile
adoptiilor internationale din Romania prezentate propagandistic ca o 'mana
cereasca', si cum adoptiile internationale sint RECUNOSCUTE ca fiind, din
pacate, inca legate de traficul de copii chiar si de presa din SUA, merita sa
citim ce scrie in articole bazate pe documente ale guvernului SUA.Tot aici se
vede ca pretul adoptiilor internationale la 30-40000 USD e privit ca atragator
fata de cele din SUA, asa cum spuneam intr-un mesaj anterior despre cel putin
50000 USD adoptia in SUA:
http://www.adoptionsolutions.com/general/abuse_story.htm
U.S. hopes to crack down on global adoption abuses
By Alan Elsner, National Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - As the United States tightens immigration
procedures after the Sept. 11 attacks, it is also trying to clamp down on
abuses in international adoptions, which have turned into a lucrative and
corrupt global trade in babies.
U.S. adoptions of overseas children have doubled in the past decade, reaching
almost 20,000 a year. American families adopt four of every five children
placed through international adoption, often paying tens of thousands of
dollars per child.
The children come from a wide variety of countries, with Russia and China
heading the list, followed by South Korea, Guatemala and Romania.
"What you have is too much money changing hands and too many people trying to
get that money by producing babies for adoption," said Fred Greenman, legal
counsel to the American Adoption Council.
Earlier this year, under pressure from the European Community, Romania declared
a one-year suspension of international adoptions to revamp its procedures and
cut out corruption which critics said had embroiled government agencies in the
lucrative trade.
Emma Nicholson, the European Parliament's special envoy for Romania, criticized
the "child abuse and neglect .. and child trafficking" that she said encouraged
thousands of poor people to abandon their children every year.
WIDESPREAD ABUSES FOUND
In Guatemala, an international report found widespread abuses, prompting the
U.S. and Canadian embassies to require DNA testing of babies to prove that the
women giving them up for adoption were really their mothers. At least 14 tests
are known to have come back negative.
Last year, the United States agreed to join The Hague Convention on
Intercountry Adoption, a multilateral treaty negotiated by 66 countries to
regulate the practice.
Under its provisions, which should come into force in the next two or three
years, all agencies working on international adoptions will need to meet strict
government standards.
Some 800 adoption agencies in the United States are currently thought to be in
the fast-growing business. Although the figures differ widely, couples can pay
up to $40,000 for an overseas adoption. With that kind of money at stake, it is
no wonder there are abuses.
"We as a country have done a poor job of regulating adoption here and abroad.
Most of the adoption agencies here are trying sincerely to find homes for
children who need them. But some of the practices they close their eyes to are
not so hot," said Adam Pertman, author of "Adoption Nation."
"We know mothers in Third World countries are given paltry amounts to give up
their children for adoption. We don't have a clue how many and how much much
money is being pocketed by others along the way," he said.
Abuses can creep in all along the line. The Guatemalan report said demand for
babies had created a lucrative market, involving "mothers, intermediaries,
custodians, lawyers, adoption agencies and some children's homes."
Brokers seek out pregnant women and offer them money for their babies who are
then advertised on the Internet; notaries and agents take a slice to produce
medical documentation which are sometimes falsified; other officials take a cut
to issue passports and other papers.
SECRETIVE PAYMENTS
Adoptive couples are sometimes told to set out for a foreign country with large
amounts of cash in their pockets for under-the-table transactions. One
terrified prospective mother found herself at dead of night handing over $8,000
to a bunch of Russian gangsters in a parking lot.
Under the new U.S. regulations still being drafted, prospective adoptive
families will be carefully screened for suitability and procedures will be put
in place to ensure that every child surrendered for adoption is given up
freely.
Adoptive families will have the right to receive timely and accurate medical
documentation and background information. At present, parents desperate for a
baby sometimes find they have adopted children with serious physical and
psychological problems which they cannot handle.
Some children respond well to love, good food and proper care. Others may be so
severely damaged by fetal alcohol syndrome or years of lack of human contact
and sensory and social deprivation that they cannot be rescued.
"I've seen parents whose lives were blighted by adoptions. I've seen marriages
strained or destroyed, people forced into bankruptcy and children who wind up
abandoned in American orphanages, truly strangers in a strange land," said
Greenman.
Susan Cox, vice president of Holt International Childrens Services, a major
adoption agency, said the advent of big money had brought some unsavory people
into the adoption business.
"International adoption is highly charged and emotional. When something is done
inappropriately, it taints everyone involved," she said.
"It is not the standard costs of providing services that are problematic. It is
the inflated expenses passed on to families that create ethical land mines. The
appearance of buying of children is unavoidable when the cost of an
international adoption far exceeds the local yearly income of a family," she
said.
http://www.childlaw.us/adoption_news/
International adoption has been a widely accepted practice in the United States
for over fifty years. Yet for most of that time, our government has not
regulated adoption businesses in any meaningful way. Despite assurances that
the IAA would be implemented some time ago, the State Department continues to
equivocate about issuing final regulations or what those regulations will do to
create greater transparency and accountability. Now, nearly four years after
both consumers and industry should have received clear guidelines; the outcome
of this process has never seemed more compromised. With the lines drawn between
maintaining the status quo and achieving the first meaningful federal
regulation and real protections for consumers of international adoption real
progress is at risk.
The Regulatory Failure
Fundamentally, the Hague Convention, an international treaty, and the
Intercountry Adoption Act, its implementing legislation, were developed to
address a range of problems identified in international adoption practice, from
concerns about child trafficking to complaints about skyrocketing costs to a
rising number of wrongful adoption suits. Nevertheless, over a decade of
discussion, debate, Congressional hearings, legislation, meetings and a myriad
of detailed comments, four years after the Intercountry Adoption Act was signed
into law an impasse remains on how inter-country adoption should be regulated.
No one, it seems - including the "experts" - can agree on how the federal
government should appropriately regulate this important, growing but ultimately
complicated process. Our national "policy" remains allowing large sums of cash
to leave the country in an entirely unregulated system and browbeating foreign
governments into surrendering children in a decision making process for their
foster children that none of our fifty states would permit for America's
waiting children.
For years, the argument against greater regulation of adoption by the federal
government has been rooted in the notion that adoption is a state law issue.
While adoption is an important benevolent response to the needs of orphaned
children around the world, it is also a big business that generates millions of
dollars in revenue. All international adoption is inherently interstate
commerce. While the federal government regulates everything from coal mining to
organ transplants, international adoption has remained beyond the reach of most
federal enforcement or oversight. The State Department's equivocation has
ensured that consumers have more protections when they join a health club than
they do when they make this profound and life altering decision.
This country's failure to adequately regulate international adoption has
already had serious consequences. By allowing each state, each agency, indeed,
each family to pursue adoption differently the US government has ensured
consumers of adoption services have no coherent guidelines to protect their
interests. This lack of consistency has only been amplified by the use of the
Internet to market adoption services and the growing demand for children.
Lacking training in foreign policy or a sound regulatory framework would be
adoptive families and their adoption agencies are encouraged to navigate the
increasingly complex and treacherous geopolitics of countries around the world
with virtually no training and in many cases a vested self-interest. The result
has been diplomatic and emotional chaos.
Foreign Adoption at Risk
Predictably, many foreign governments have elected to suspend or ban adoption
rather than manage the independent diplomacy of these competing interests. They
have also demonstrated increasing resistance to permitting large cash payments
to facilitators. According to Ethica: A Voice for Ethical Child Placement in
the past fifteen years, 13 countries have suspended or ended their adoption
programs.
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January 12, 2004
2003 Tax Benefits for Adoption
The tax benefits for adoption are numerous and a bit complicated.
This year adoptive parents may be able to take a tax credit of up to $10,160
for qualifying expenses paid to adopt an eligible child. Also, up to $10,160
paid or reimbursed by an employer for qualifying adoption expenses under an
adoption assistance program may be excludable from gross income. Adoptive
parents may claim both a credit and an exclusion for expenses of adopting an
eligible child.
Finally, beginning in 2003, the maximum credit and exclusion of $10,160,
subject to certain income and tax liability limits, will be allowed for the
adoption of a child with special needs even if the adoptive parents do not have
ANY qualifying expenses. This "refundable credit" has long been sought by
adoption advocates.
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