Québec recognizes Aboriginal customary adoption - CNW Group

Chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Quebec and Labrador, is pleased that the Government of Quebec has officially recognized the customary rules of the adoption of the First Nations and Inuit. A Bill is tabled today in the National Assembly to amend the Code Civil du Québec to recognize the legality of Aboriginal customary adoption. "It is a very important step in the recognition of Quebec of our status of indigenous people and the special laws of the governance of First Nations," said Chief Picard.

The recognition of the customary adoption rules in the Bill dealing with the adoption and parental authority is a direct consequence of the "report of the Working Group of indigenous customary Adoption", filed on 16 April 2012, which said: "in the Aboriginal tradition, the historical actions of various authorities were hardly conducive to the development of customary adoption." However, its survival clearly shows the strength of this practice. In addition, it is a real and contemporary of the specificity of indigenous cultures expression. »

Consultations were held in Aboriginal communities to document the State of customary adoption and to clarify how this practice could be incorporated in the legislation. "It was a remarkable work." This study to recognize not only the reality of customary adoption, but also its relevance which is well established in the ways of life of our people and our communities. "We are extremely pleased that the Government of Quebec is now able to adapt its legislation to meet the needs and expectations of our people," said Chief Picard.

Bill States expressly that "the conditions of Aboriginal custom in Quebec which is in harmony with the principles of the interest of the child, respect for his rights and the consent of the parties concerned, may replace the conditions for adoption by law." This legislative amendment will grant the right to families who have adopted a child under customary rules to exercise parental authority just as any other parent who has adopted a child according to the legal system.

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Same-sex couples Sue about the rights of adoption in North Carolina - msnbc.com

By Miranda Leitsinger, msnbc.com

Couples of the same sex in North Carolina filed a prosecution dispute the ban of the State gay families second-parent adoptions, saying that it violates their constitutional rights and that it is discriminatory, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.

The ban was released a decision of court supreme of State in December 2010 as only the in-laws who are joint legal of the biological parent of the child may adopt. Same-sex marriage has never been recognized in North Carolina, and in may, voters approved a constitutional amendment to define marriage between a man and a woman, so there is no way for couples same-sex become the legal husband.

The ACLU, and the North Carolina Chapter, testified at the trial on behalf of six same-sex couples and their children. In each of the families, the child has a relationship legally recognized with a parent and wants the same thing with the other. But, under the decision of the Court of the State, the existing legal parent would have to give up their parental rights to the adoption to occur.

"Therefore, the legal complaint argues, these children" suffer many privations, "including the exclusion of a number of benefits, such as health, disability and social security,"as well as uncertainty about their ability to continue their relationship with their second parent if something happens to their legal parent.""

Elizabeth Gill, Attorney of senior officials with the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender project, said that the policy was "discriminatory" and did not "take into account what is best for a child."

"We are never just a matter of who should take care of our children," said Marcie Fisher-Borne, who with his partner, Chantelle, 15 years. Every woman has one of their two children. "If something were to happen to any one of us, he could tear apart our family."

Twenty States and the District of Columbia allow gay and lesbian parents obtain the second parent or step-parent adoptions, the complaint said, noting that the courts in North Carolina have given joint custody parents second gay or lesbian as a "parent de facto doctrine". However, this status does not create a parent-child "full" relationship, said the complaint.

Named as defendants are John w. Smith, Director of the Administrative Office of the courts, David l. Churchill, clerk of the superior court for the County of Guilford and Archie l. Smith, clerk of the superior court for the County of Durham in North Carolina.

Churchill and Archie l. Smith did not return calls placed by msnbc.com seeking comment. The Administrative Office of the North Carolina courts said that this fact does not comment on all items where the proceeding is pending.

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Adoption of Africa: the concerns of the "dramatic increase" - BBC News

There is concern some adopted children of Africa have at least one living parent, the number of African children adopted by foreign nationals of other continents has increased dramatically, a report said.

In the course of the past eight years, international adoptions has increased by almost 400%, African child policy Forum has found.

"Africa is becoming the new frontier for international adoption", said the group based in Addis Ababa.

But many African countries are not sufficient safeguards in place to protect children in adoption, he warned.

The majority of so-called adopted orphans of Africa have at least one living parent and child is trafficked or sold by their parents, child expert group said.

More than 41 000 African children were adopted and removed from the country of origin since 2004, the coastal report said.

More than two-thirds of the total in 2009 and 2010 were adopted from Ethiopia, which now sends more children than any other country outside of China for adoption abroad.

Shortage of adoptable children

"Compromising children's best interest while business adoption is likely and adoption can become an industry wide, focusing on profit, with children as the goods," said the African Child Policy Forum report.

Director of the group, David Mugabe, said that the adoption in some parts of Africa had indeed become a business.

Hannah Reimer Canadian adopted Swaziland said BBC Network Africa of his experience:

I was born in 1987 in the general hospital in Mbabane, Swaziland. My mother, who was a refugee from Mozambique, I left there.

My photo was made in the Swazi Times newspaper, asking my family for me. If person was then I would have had to go to an orphanage. But my parents were visiting my aunt, who I think is a nurse in Swaziland and they have heard of me. As said my mum, they knew that they had to do something. It took them a month to finalize the adoption. I was premature, weighing 3 lbs 6 oz and so tiny that I could fit in the Palm of his elbow, said my father.

I grew up in the Canada, this is the House that I know, and for a long time, I was one of the only black children to the school. When you are small, children did notice. But as you grow up, you have any questions on where you are, especially when realize you that you look different.

But on the flip side of that I have been incredibly blessed with family I have - and had the opportunity to return to Africa and I hope that I can return to Swaziland and Mozambique and give back to the community at any given time.

"It has an element where adoption has now become a marketed.". "And so it's an industry that some orphanages have [de] - and they are promoting adoption primarily to be able to support and maintain orphanages," he told the BBC Focus on Africa programme.

He said large sums of money were sometimes being paid by the parents.

"There was a lady who has worked with the US Embassy in Uganda and she mentioned the figures varied between $ 10,000 to $ 30,000", said Mr. Mugabe.

According to the ACPF, Ethiopia has more than 70 adoption agencies, including 15 only refer to children families in the United States.

African children more go to the United States, which is where adoptions occur most of the foreign countries - in 2010, more than 11,000 children over 100 countries were adopted by American parents.

In Western Europe and the Canada families also adopt African children.

International adoption is also popular in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Mali, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Morocco, Uganda and Burkina Faso, said the coastal report.

People who wish to adopt children are turning more to Africa because that the adoption of the amendments and laws in other countries has resulted in a shortage of adoptable children, she says.

Countries including China, South Korea, the Guatemala, the Russia, the Romania and the Ukraine have tightened eligibility rules and closed or limited adoption overseas - promotion rather national adoption.

International law, international adoption should be a last resort - and the increase in the number of children adopted in Africa and settled in other countries is of concern in child welfare experts.

"Every child has the right to be raised in the country where he was born, culture", said Mr. Mugabe.

"It is true that a number of children have actually benefited from adoption, but this is the best option or have been explored, other options," he told the BBC.

The report warned that many countries of the continent are not strong enough laws and policies to stem illicit activities, including trafficking in children.

Only 13 African countries have ratified the Hague Convention, which provides various safeguards to ensure that children are not adopted illegally.

"The burden of proof is on the African States to take urgent and decisive measures to strengthen families and communities to care for children in their country of origin," explains the coastal report.

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Adoption and faith - Jerusalem Post

Childless Israeli couples interested in adopting inevitably the prospect of the adoption of a non-Jewish child.

Strong ethics of childbearing in our society, which puts pressure on couples without children to do everything in their power to have a child - if by artificial insemination, surrogacy or adoption - has also created a situation in which there are very few children - if applicable - in adoption. Add to that the abundant availability of free abortions and the result is a serious lack of adoption options locally.

Couples who decide to adopt are forced to look elsewhere for any children in Romania, the Ukraine or elsewhere. And these children are rarely, if ever, Jews.

She used to adopt a child abroad, the adoptive parents were to convert the child to Judaism. It was pursuant to section 5 of the Adoption Act, which provides that "the adopter must be of the same religion as the adopted child".

But after signing the Hague Convention on Protection of children and cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption, Israel was forced to change the law. Israel can only a distinct member of the international conventions governing the adoption policy if the conversion to Judaism, including the dumping of the adopted child (usually a minor) in a mikvah of circumcision (for boys), remains a condition for adoption.

Unfortunately, the amendment, in 1996, was limited to cases of adoptions by foreigners. In other cases of adoption, the requirement is that the adopter and the adopted child is the same religion.

This has created huge difficulties. For example, if an Israeli Jew marries a woman non - Jewish Israeli - say one about 300,000 immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who is not Jewish according to Halacha - if she has children non-Jews from a previous marriage, he cannot be adopted by Jewish father.

Or, if a Jewish infertile couple decides to have a child by a surrogate mother outside Israel for non-Jewish (in Israel only Jewish women can be substitutes), the child can be adopted. This is because according to some halakhic opinions a child born to a non-Jewish woman is a non-Jewish, even if the sperm and the egg was provided by the Jews. And this was the position adopted by the State of Israel. MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) suggested, putting an end to this absurd situation in which people effectively fulfill the role of parents for their children "adopted" Nevertheless lack the interest of parents.

Horowitz, in cooperation with the Irit Rosenblum of new family, an organization that promotes separation of religion and State, has proposed a bill that would completely eliminate the stipulation that "the adopter must be of the same religion as the adopted child".

Of course, Bill of Horowitz, which was to be discussed Sunday in the Ministerial Committee for legislation, has almost no chance to pass under the constellation of the current policy. The discussion has been postponed after the Department of Justice argued that there is a special legal Committee is currently reviewing all of the question of the adoption.

But Horowitz adopting modification is the right thing to do.

Conversion becomes a condition for the adoption, inevitably pressure is brought to bear against the judges of the Rabbinical Court of conversion to the more lenient conversion process, thus violating the religious autonomy of these judges. And when the secular parents are expected to convert their child in the adoption procedure they are inevitably also put under pressure to present a show of the conversion as Rabbinical Court if they led a religious life - observe the Shabbat, eat kosher food, participating in the synagogue, when in reality they have no religious feelings whatsoever.

Religious faith should not be a condition precedent to the adoption of a child, instead economic and psychological stability and - particularly - large amounts of love should be.

At the same time, the rabbis should not be expected to introduce some leniencies in their interpretation of "who is Jewish" to accommodate secular parents interested in adopting a child.

The time has come to separate the religion of the adoption process.

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CHILDREN in Hampshire have to wait on average 18 months to be supported to move with their adoptive parents.

The first "score" for local adoption shows Hampshire County Council meets basic objectives to place children with adoptive parents.

However, the authority would fail new tougher targets, ordered by the education Secretary, Michael Gove to place children in care with a new family permanently in 14 months.

To the Council of the County of Hampshire, the average expectation of care to the adoption over the past three years was 540 days.

Over the past three years, only nine per cent of the children in care in Hampshire have been adopted - below average 14% national.

Dashboards also point out how most of the adopted children were less than five years. Only three per cent of 130 children, leaving the Council of the County of Hampshire for adoption over the past three years were five years or more.

The figures also show 40 children in Hampshire were waiting for adoption in March.

County leaders say that there is a "mismatch" between children allowed for the adoption by the courts and the potential adopters.

Many potential adopters want a baby healthy while those on the waiting list include sister groups and children with problems of development and emotional.

Dashboards are part of a government crackdown on the delay widespread adoption system.

Hampshire County Council is one of the three local authorities to test a new assessment process, aimed at the acceleration of the system and the removal of duplication of the family courts and panels of the adoption.

Steve Crocker, Director Deputy of the services children and families at the County Council, expressed fears that the score could encourage "perverse". He said that this might want to say there is less time to find the right permanent family for children with complex needs and the sister groups that are more difficult to place.

Speaking at a meeting of the county council children and families Advisory Board, Mr. Crocker said: "it may be difficult, but if it is the right thing for the child, we should try... even if this means that we can over-shoot time."

Councillor Jackie Porter, spokesman of the opposition to the children services, has warned that children are more in care, it is more difficult to sever the links when they are adopted.

She said: "They will not only parents but also grieving for their carers home."

The Commission seeks to increase the number of people who are "double registered" to foster and adopt. This means that a child can move with them as foster parents before be legally adopted.

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«.. .many potential adopters want a baby healthy while those on the waiting list include sister groups and children with problems of development and emotional. »

Seems quite obvious that members would like to see a healthy boy or a girl. I would be interested to know why an adopter specify anything other than healthy, or be not concerned by it. «.. .many potential adopters want a baby healthy while those on the waiting list include sister groups and children with problems of development and emotional. "Seems quite obvious that members would like to see a healthy boy or a girl. I would be interested to know why an adopter specify anything other than healthy, or be not concerned by it. Quimbo
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Bryan Fischer of American Family Association: Gay Adoption is "A form of child abuse" (video) - Huffington Post

The prominent anti-gay pundit Bryan Fischer is once again this week.

Right wing Watch reports, the American Family Association evangelist sounds off the coast on a controversial study on gay parenting, which did find disadvantages for children raised by parents the same sex. Talking about Fischer about the study on his talk show "Focal Point", marking of adoption by married couples of same sex as "a form of child abuse".

Of course, Fischer has not prevented there, make a point to condemn gay sex, too. "Sex is involved in homosexual behavior - it is abnormal, it is immoral and it is unhealthy", he proclaims. "We know that he is the human body to the uses for which it was not designed." If you believe in the evolution of the creation, we can all say, look, the human body was not designed to be used in this way; It is simply not. »

He concludes, "the line down, ladies and gentlemen, is to put the children in this environment - it is a form of sexual abuse all its own." To adopt children in a same-sex environment is a form of abuse. »

Fischer, of course, was to the newspapers much in recent weeks, as the subject of a profile in The New Yorker (which he quickly sentenced as "shockingly bad, poorly written, sophomoric" on Twitter) as well as for the usual blasting of the LGBT community.

Earlier this month, he suggested that the conservatives should "recover discrimination" and even compared gays alarming series of cases of cannibalism currently in the news.

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Pastor, identified as Charles l. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, N.C., YouTube condemns the endorsement of president Obama of same-sex marriage advertising calling for gay men and lesbians to be placed in an enclosure electrified and ultimately killed. "Build a large, large, large fence - 150 or 100 mile long - put all lesbians are," Worley is suggested in the video, which was filmed on 13 May. "Do the same thing for homosexuals and the Queers and the electrified fence so that they cannot get out... and you know what, in a few years, they will die... you know why?". They cannot reproduce! »

Ron Baity, founding pastor of Berean Baptist Church of Winston-Salem and head of the Organization of equal anti-marriage back America, called homosexuality "a perverted life" in a sermon before Sunday to tell his congregation that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) should be pursued, so as you are a statement. Since 300 years, we have had laws that could continue this way of life,"he is quoted as saying. "We went on the wrong track." We have become so stupid that we accepted a lie for the truth, and we have... rejected the truth on the shoals of sinking! »

"If your starts small son to act a little Madames where it is instead of crash and four-year-old who as a cockroach and saying, 'Man up, son, get that dress off you and go out and dig a ditch, because this is what boys', you get out the camera and you start taking photos of Johnny, acting as a female and then you download on YouTube and everyone laughs about it and the next". something that you know, this dude, this kid is acting on the fantasies of childhood that should have been crushed. »

Tim Rabon, pastor at the tag of Raleigh Baptist Church, condemned States like Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maryland that have "redefined" already marriage to include people lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) of couples. As heard in this recording, Rabon asked his congregation, "which is stop refining of the marriage of a person and a beast." We are not far away. »

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Seized dogs at home soon ready for adoption - WAFF

An animal rescue group took control of dozens of dogs seized in an investigation of cruelty to animals.

Finally check, 38 dogs ready for adoption. They moved a Madison animal clinic in the shelter of the region Friday.

During this time, the loads are pending in this investigation.

Some puppies were born two days ago. They have survived terrible living conditions that were inside a House on the promenade of Crestview in Madison.

The puppies leave the clinic Animal Whitworth Madison to go to shelters where they await you for a new owner to adopt.

Police said that an elderly couple lived in the House with 85 dogs. Some were already dead.

Charges are pending in the case, but no arrests have been made.

"I cannot say much because there is an ongoing investigation, but what I can say, is that they were well fed..." "They seem well socialized," said Miki Bennett. "They did not have veterinary care, not the bathroom, and they were allowed to go to the bathroom in the House."

Bennett is Director of the Madison Animal Rescue Foundation. It coordinates the process of adopting the dog.

The Ark in Huntsville animal shelter is also home to 15 of the dogs until they are ready for adoption. They had 16 dogs, but a puppy is dead.

Founder, Nina Beal, said that small had a long way to follow.

"They have not been approved as their shots or worm of audit or control of heartworm or sterilized or sterilization - all this has to be done," said Beal.  "We need a health of our veterinarian before they can be adopted, and then we welcome people to come and look."

Bennett said that it does not appear that the owners abused dogs. She said that they did not only draw the attention appropriate in unhygienic conditions.

"We believe that they are in good health, but we are still by train through the validation." Yesterday their support, became mainly just for their safety. "Today is their moves, their reviews - cause for removal or neutral", she said.

Police said that the investigation of animal cruelty can continue until next week.

Copyright 2012 WAFF. All rights reserved.

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CAT and kitten adoption special to Seattle Animal Shelter - KING-5

by Susan Wyatt

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This is the kitten season and the Seattle animal shelter is bulging at the seams with cats and kittens ready for adoption.

The shelter said to encourage potential owners, adoption fees are waived for cats and reduced to kittens through June 30, 2012. The offer is made possible by a grant from the Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation.

With this special offer, for a cat (6 months or more) adoptive parents pay only the cost of the license, if applicable. Licenses 2 years cat of Seattle are $27. Reduced for kittens adoption fees are $ 100 for one and $ 150 for two (more licenses, if applicable), a savings of $30 for a single male kitten and $35 for a single female for as much as $120 for two female kittens. Regular adoption fees are available online at: http://www.seattle.gov/animalshelter/adoption-fees.htm.

Included in the package of adoption:

Initial vaccinationsDewormingFeline leukemia testingCertificate for the free health examination at the local veterinariansSpay or neuterMicrochipTwo-year Seattle Pet license (if applicable)

"It's certainly here from Seattle animal kitten season," said Don Jordan, Director of the Seattle Animal shelter. "We want to get our kittens and adult cats, which are often neglected at this time of the year, lovers of new houses always."

The Seattle Animal shelter is open Wednesday to Sunday, from noon to 18 for adoptions. It is located at 2061 - 15 Avenue W. The phone number is (206) 386 - PETS (7387). Animals available for adoption can be accessed online at http://www.seattleanimalshelter.org.

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