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Vietnam responds to U.S. criticism, bans adoptions by U.S. couples

Posted in Asia on Apr 29th, 2008

According to this Washington Post article, Vietnam will not accept applications for the adoption of Vietnamese children by U.S. citizens after July 1. This is in reaction to a report by U.S. embassy that alleged
pervasive corruption and baby-selling in Vietnam’s adoption system.
A surge in the percentage of babies declared “abandoned” raised a red flag [...]

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Fatherless children in China face legal limitations

Posted in Asia on Apr 9th, 2008

With fines for having more than one child, parental pressure to marry and a culture with little stigma for abortion, the issue of single motherhood has mostly been absent from China’s public forum. Now a single journalist is blogging to her unborn child in Beijing, and the comments left on her site both hint [...]

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