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Email Sent on 5/21/09
Dear Law Faculty Members
and Child Rights Supporters: We
write to urge you to join us in supporting the International Adoption
Policy Statement. We hope to obtain significant support for this
Policy Statement from Faculty members in Law Schools and Universities in
the U.S. and throughout the world specializing in Family, Child, Civil
Rights and Human Rights Law, and from related legal professionals.
We believe that such support will make a difference in the policy debate
now surrounding International Adoption. As
you may know, International Adoption is in crisis, with the numbers down
significantly during each of the past four years, after steadily rising
during the prior six decades. This is not because of any decline in
unparented children; there continue to be many millions of children in
desperate need of nurturing homes, most of whom are now growing up in
terribly inadequate institutions or on the streets. Instead the
reduction in International Adoption numbers is largely because of
opposition by organizations and individuals alleging that they speak for
the human rights of children. They call for restrictions on
International Adoption that include temporary and permanent moratoria on
such adoption, preferences for in-country foster and institutional care
over out-of-country adoption, "holding periods" that require
searching for in-country homes for months or years before out-of-country
placement is permitted, and the elimination of the private adoption
intermediaries that often serve as the lifeblood of International
Adoption. They seek to severely limit International Adoption to
last resort status. We believe that International Adoption generally
serves the interests of children who cannot be raised by their birth
parents better than non-adoption alternatives like foster and
institutional care. We believe that International Adoption should
be kept on the table as one of the options to serve the needs of
unparented children worldwide. This
International Adoption Policy Statement, along with its Supporting
Report, has so far been endorsed by the Center for Adoption Policy, the
Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Program, the National Council for
Adoption, and the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. To see
the six-page Supporting Report, click here. Competing views on the policy and legal issues
are presented in treaties and authorities cited in that Report's
footnotes 1-3. A related Recommendation on International Adoption
has been adopted by the American Bar Association (ABA) House of
Delegates. To compare, click here for ABA Recommendation. We urge you to join us in endorsing as individual Faculty
members the International Policy Statement reprinted below. TO DO SO YOU NEED SIMPLY
PROVIDE YOUR NAME AND AFFILIATION HERE.
PLEASE DO THIS BY TUES, MAY 26. We hope to go
public with the full list of endorsements shortly after that date.
Click here to view the list of the endorsing organizations and
individuals, which will be updated regularly. Please email either Elizabeth Bartholet
or Mary Welstead with
any questions and any suggestions you may have for related action. Please also forward this message to anyone you think might be interested
in joining us in this effort. |
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