Consultation on DCSF charging for their services
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
Views on international adoption issues
Internationally Adopted Children Thriving
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
17 December 2009
Internationally Adopted Children Are Thriving, Study Shows
By Jeffrey Thomas, Staff Writer, America.gov
Washington — Even as the latest figures show a continuing multi-year decline in the number of U.S. children adopted from other countries, a U.S. government survey released in November finds that most of these international adoptees…
Children-in-need a commodity?
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
It seems that there is nothing as controversial as inter-country adoption.
I have been in this world for over 8 years now - as an adoptive parent, creator of adoption support group, as advocate. I have read everything I can get my hands on, spoken to hundreds of adoptive parents and dozens of adoptees, attended lectures, organised conferences etc., etc. and even now, I am still discovering…
No children in the UK available for adoption
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
Horrific reports about Irish Institutions
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
Listening to Radio 4 at the moment and the horrific stories of children who were placed in the institutions in Ireland and the dreadful abuse that they suffered. The Ryan Report outlines events in details. It is a disgrace - the whole complex system that was privy to what was going on behind the doors of those institutions to those little children and who did nothing. I feel such moral outrage -…
Permutations
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
Thank goodness for the medical profession. In the whole adoption process doctors are the only one's who seem to understand things from both the parents perspective and the child's needs. Walking today in the park with an international adoption doctor the 'hot' topic of social workers telling infertile potential parents that they need to use contraceptives…
Reflection
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Reflection
One of the members of our Russian UK Adoption (RUKA) group has just become a Mama. She is in Moscow at the moment and has taken custody of her son for three days…
We've done it!
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
Hurrah! After 5 years, 11 months and 14 days for me and 4 years, 8 months and 3 days for my son we no longer subjects of the state and are once again autonomous individuals.
At last our adoption is finished, completely and totally and utterly.
No more social…
The numbers of inter-country adoptions declining
Posted by Cecile Trijssenaar
The FT published this article this morning on the decline of inter-country adoptions:
https://www.ft.com/content/eb32208a-b625-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62
And my comment:
Mmm, Bulgaria has not closed inter-country adoptions as stated and Romania allows inter-country…
