Bailout of adoption agency approved
Date: 2009-09-22
Source: canada.com
The Windsor Star
A proposal to bail out a bankrupt adoption agency that left hundreds of international adoptions in limbo has been approved by clients.
Under the plan, families in the process of adopting will pay $4,000 each to help complete the agency's unfinished adoptions.
About 350 Canadian families were in the process of adopting overseas children when Cambridge, Ont.-based Kids Link International Adoption Agency, which operated as Imagine Adoption, was placed into bankruptcy on July 13.
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Waterloo Regional Police have launched a fraud investigation into the agency.
The restructuring plan still needs approval from a court.
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Media coverage continues
In an article titled "Families still hopeful of adopting", a PAP shares his thoughts/feelings regarding the added fees he's expected to pay to keep his adoption dreams alive and an adoption agency afloat:
Better than two evils -- give more money (to an agency that's being investigated for it's questionable spending practices), and get the promised child, or lose all the money invested and start all over, with another adoption service.
Wow.
Considering what Australian (as opposed to Canadian) news media is featuring about Ethiopian "orphans", I wonder how so many PAP's can be so eager to rush/continue a process that involves all sorts of questionable practices.
Would halting all international adoptions from Ethiopia, (like it was done in Romania), so extensive investigations can take place, (weeding out the bad-guys) be such a terrible thing to ask people who are eager-to-adopt-a-foreign-orphan?
Looking in my crystal ball
I think Ethiopia's future when it comes to Inter-country adoption will more likely resemble Guatemala than Romania. What happened in Romania, was part of the accedance to the European Union and the demand of social reform in achieving so.
I guess Ethiopia will somewhere down the line temporarily close, reopen again, become part of the Hague Convention. Finally some countries will likely stop doing business with Ethiopia. Countries like Canada and Sweden come to mind. Before the US follows suit, Ethiopia will probably close its borders itself.
Of course nothing is for certain in this. There may be a regime change in the next couple of years that change the entire dynamics. So all is very uncertain, but my guess is they will eventually close, so it's good to start looking out for the countries the adoption circus will jump onto next.