Showing posts with label foster care. Show all posts
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Friday, January 22, 2010

What To Do with Some of Haiti's Orphans: International Foster Care

I'm watching CNN and they're doing a segment on Haitian orphans.  The issue is that there are a lot of orphans with a lot of well-meaning westerners, in this case Americans, who want to adopt them.  Wolf Blitzer cautions that some of these "orphans" have parents who may be looking for them now or later. So, adoption, for those orphans whose paperwork had not started or were not completed, is not an option.   Soledad O'Brien is having none of it.  She launches into an intellectually and emotionally compelling argument this is not the time to drag one's feet and be bureaucratic because a lot of these kids are dying without a moment to lose.  She concludes her argument with comment that there has to be a middle ground between leaving these kids to die in Haiti and taking them to the United States and elsewhere for permanent adoption.  I think there is a middle ground.