The U.S. State Department has proposed new rules regulating intercountry adoption that will drastically impact the ability for orphaned children abroad to be adopted. These rules would restrict the number of agencies working in foreign countries and are motivated by an anti-adoption agenda.
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The Petition:
We the People hereby petition our government to immediately withdraw the proposed rules published on September 8, 2016 changing the accreditation standards and procedures for intercountry adoptions; and that the State Department be required to identify and substantiate what problems they seek to solve by proposing these rule changes and incorporate the expertise of the adoption community prior to formulating any necessary new rules. The number of intercountry adoptions to the United States has fallen by 75% since 2004, leaving hundreds of thousands of orphans without safe, stable and loving families.
Read the 5 point letter written by adoption professionals & attorneys
Read the State Department's proposed rule changes
Get more information about these changes at SaveAdoptions.org
Like any social institution, adoption has its share of problems. However, there are already plenty of regulations, and adding an additional layer would literally be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. At the very least, prospective adoptive parents will have to pay agencies and facilitators to help them jump through the new hurdles, adding more expense to a process that is already very expensive, with the result that more children will spend their childhood without a permanent family.
Posted by: Ed Gehringer | September 24, 2016 at 01:52 PM
I support this petition in honor of adoptions and families' right to select the agency they will use to grow their family. A restriction of number of agencies will have a negative impact on the growth of adoptions.
Posted by: Heather Stanghellini | September 23, 2016 at 09:31 PM