Adoption Issues

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Vietnamese Legislators Agree to Adoption Regulations

Vietnam's National Assembly's Standing Committee has agreed to fully support the signing and ratifying of the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Inter-country Adoption. The Hague Convention, as this document is more commonly known, is a set of policies meant to ensure the protection of adopted children.

"Since 2003, with the Government's 68/202/ND-CP decree coming into force, a number of agreements on child adoption with other countries have been signed and an International Adoption Department under the Ministry of Justice has been set up."

Ratification of the Hague Convention took several years. Vietnam had to set several policies in place to ensure conditions were in line with the convention's requirements. Source: Vietnam Bridge

Labels: international, protection, Vietnam

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Benefits of the Hague Convention

It's a long name: the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. Typically referred to simply as The Hague Convention, it's an international policy that goes into effect on April 1st in the United States.

"The convention outlines the process by which a child becomes eligible for adoption and also outlines the processes whereby a family is deemed eligible to adopt a child. This protects children because it ensures that every attempt has been made to keep the child in his or her birth family and birth country. It protects adoptive families, who can be confident that any child they are considering for adoption has been previously designated as eligible for adoption."

Few adoptive families will notice any changes in their adoption process as the convention primarily impacts record-keeping and internal communications between adoption agencies and governmental agencies. Read more at Press-Citizen.com.

Labels: inter-country_adoption, international, protection