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"Open adoption and open records are important byways. But they are not the most compelling route. Family preservation is."
Dr. Randolph Severson, The Soul of Family Preservation

“Regrettably, in many cases, the emphasis has changed from the desire to provide a needy child with a home, to that of providing a needy parent with a child. As a result, a whole industry has grown, generating millions of dollars of revenues each year . . .”
The Special Rapporteur, United Nations, Commission on Human Rights, 2003.

"Over the past 30 years, the number of families from wealthy countries wanting to adopt children from other countries has grown substantially. At the same time, lack of regulation and oversight, particularly in the countries of origin, coupled with the potential for financial gain, has spurred the growth of an industry around adoption, where profit, rather than the best interests of children, takes centre stage. Abuses include the sale and abduction of children, coercion of parents, and bribery."
UNICEF's position on Inter-country adoption.

"...overseas adoption is a kind of child abuse by the state. ....Overseas adoption is the forced expulsion of children from the society where they are supposed to live. In this sense, overseas adoption is a social violence against children. As humans, we exist as part of a gigantic ecosystem. The existence of the biological parents of adoptees can never be annihilated nor denied.
"Overseas adoption is a forced separation of children from their natural ecosystems, as well as a way of forcing them into compulsory unity with settings different from and unnatural to their genetic and original social systems. Through this forced separation and compulsory unity, not only the adoptees, but also their biological parents, adoptive parents and their family members suffer trauma." Pastor Kim Do-hyun, director of KoRoot

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Evelyn

Unles you've already seen the 2002 film, Evelyn - and even if you have - consider renting it.



Set in Ireland in 1953, Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan) plays a father determined to back his daughter (Evelyn) and two sons taken The Catholic Church and the Irish courts after their mother deserts the family. The children suffer at the hands of the punitive Nuns while Desmond battles an impossible case through to the Supreme Court.

You will love the court having to decide on the constitutional and God-given right of a parent!!

Desmond's love interest is played by Julianna Marguiles.
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3 comments:

Von said...

Excellent, I'll give it a go.

January 29, 2011 4:05 PM
Lorraine Dusky said...

Is this a new movie? Never heard of it...but yes of course I'll Netflix it and watch. I learn a lot of interesting stuff at your blog, Mirah.

January 30, 2011 1:43 PM
Mirah Riben said...

2002. Also recently saw The Royal Tanenbaum's for the second time. It is about a very dysfunctional family, including brother and adopted sister who love one another....as in in love.

January 30, 2011 1:57 PM

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