tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64305548148811269542024-02-08T02:51:10.332-08:00International Adoption | Ukraine AdoptionAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691881627997743918noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430554814881126954.post-56579141368976059212016-02-17T15:06:00.000-08:002016-02-17T15:06:06.420-08:00America may be simplifying the process, it's not a cheap proposition for hopeful parents.When Valerie Reimold's water broke early Sunday morning in January, she wasn't sure how she was going to get to the hospital.<br />
The
storm that blanketed parts of York County with up to 31 inches of snow
had just subsided, and the street outside Reimold's New Salem home had
yet to be plowed.<br />
Already a mother of two, Reimold was
successfully rushed to York Hospital, where she gave birth in less than
20 minutes — she swears it felt longer — to a healthy boy, who wasn't
hers to take back home.<br />
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The boy's
parents, a gay Norwegian couple, were able to get to the hospital a
couple hours later to meet their second American-born child, Sigurd
Jonsbu.<br />
Though Reimold carried Sigurd in her uterus more than a
week past her due date, she is not biologically related to him
because she served as the gestational carrier, often referred to as
surrogate.<br />
Gestational surrogacy involved in vitro fertilization,
where a donated egg is fertilized by sperm outside the body and then
implanted into a woman's uterus.<br />
<strong>Program in place: </strong>York
Hospital has been running a program to help support gestational
carriers and intended parents through process since 2007, according to
Sue Dolla, the hospital's Women and Children Services outreach
coordinator.<br />
Mary Miller, Labor and Delivery Department nurse
manager, said the hospital has grown from delivering two or three babies
through gestational surrogacy per year in 2009 to 10-15 per year
recently.<br />
"We've had couples from Israel, Norway, Russia, Canada, Spain and all over the U.S.," Dolla said. "The word is getting out."<br />
Dolla
said York Hospital's program has helped streamline the process by
having plans in place to work with surrogacy agencies, lawyers and
offering tours.<br />
"York Hospital really extends the red carpet to help it be a positive experience," Miller said.<br />
Reimold
said York Hospital's staff was very accommodating, making sure she got
her paperwork in on time and setting up the intended parents in their
own room following the birth.<br />
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Jessica
Waltersdorff, a current gestational carrier living in Felton, toured
York Hospital last week with the future child's intended parents, and
she said all parties came away impressed.<br />
"(The staff) made the parents a lot more comfortable with the situation," Waltersdorff said.<br />
Both Reimold and Waltersdorff were matched with couples through surrogacy agencies, which help facilitate the whole process.<br />
<strong>Growing practice: </strong>Dean Hutchison, director of legal services for Boston-based <a href="http://www.circlesurrogacy.com/">Circle Surrogacy</a>, said gestational surrogacy has been on the rise throughout the United States for numerous reasons.<br />
Before
in vitro fertilization became feasible, heterosexual couples were more
hesitant to turn to traditional surrogacy, where the carrier's eggs are
used for impregnation, because it wouldn't be biologically related to
both parents, Hutchison said. Social stigmas have also changed in the
past 5-10 years, he added.<br />
"I wasn't sure my family and the
community would be accepting when they found out I was having a child
that wasn't mine," Waltersdorff said. "But so far, everyone has been
extremely supportive."<br />
Circle Surrogacy has been around for 20
years and, in the beginning, no hospitals had any protocols in place for
handling the process, Hutchison said, but most hospitals now have a
committed program. Spring Garden Township's Memorial Hospital also has a
surrogacy program, according to spokesman Jason McSherry.<br />
According
to a 2010 Council for Responsible Genetics report, the number of babies
born in the U.S. through gestational surrogacy nearly doubled from 2004
to 2008, with an estimated 5,238 babies.<br />
International couples
are a major contributor to that growth because surrogacy is prohibited
in many countries, and other countries where it is legal, such as
Ukraine or India, don't have the same level of medical care as the U.S.,
Hutchison said.<br />
Ole Aleksander Dyrkorn and Magnus Jonsbu, now
back home in Norway with their son Sigurd, previously had a daughter
through a surrogate in Rhode Island, according to Dyrkorn.<br />
"In
Norway, where we live, surrogacy is not allowed," Dyrkorn wrote in an
email. "Same sex couples are allowed to adopt, but very few countries
that cooperate with Norway allow children to be adopted by a same sex
couple. We know several couples who have become fathers through
surrogacy in the U.S., and their experiences have been very positive."<br />
Hutchison
said America is also a popular choice for international couples because
the baby can easily travel home with them with a U.S. passport.<br />
Pennsylvania,
in particular, is a popular place for surrogates because there are no
state laws governing surrogacy, Hutchison said, which simplifies the
process into a simple court order similar to an adoption process.<br />
<strong>Expensive babies: </strong>While America may be simplifying the process, it's not a cheap proposition for hopeful parents.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691881627997743918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430554814881126954.post-69690366405925117162016-02-17T15:01:00.001-08:002016-02-17T15:01:34.564-08:00Portuguese Parliament has liberalized the country’s abortion laws<h1 class="article-title">
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">LISBON, Portugal, February 12, 2016 (</span><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>)
– The Socialist-Communist majority in the Portuguese Parliament has
liberalized the country’s abortion laws granted same-sex couples the
ability to adopt children. It had to override the presidential veto to
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">The
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<span>Parliament has also removed a requirement that women
receive counselling before aborting their children, and that they pay
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">When
the government's coalition with Communists and other parties of the
Left passed legislation to that effect in January, President Anibal
Cavaco Silva vetoed both. It took a second vote pushed through by Costa
this week to obtain the added votes needed to override the president.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">Cavaco
Silva explained his veto by asking parliamentarians to consider “the
child’s best interest” rather than “equality between different and
same-sex couples.” He also called for more public debate on such a
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">Costa’s Socialists actually got fewer votes than the Centre-Right Portugal Forward coalition of</span> Pedro
Passos Coelho in last fall’s general election, but was able to oust the
man who governed Portugal since 2011 by uniting the Left in Parliament
against his unpopular austerity policies.</div>
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2014 the conservative majority defeated a move to legalize adoption by
same-sex couples, though adoption by individuals of any sexual
persuasion was already legal.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">Cavaco Silva must sign the amendments into law in a few days. This spring he will retire from office.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">The
arguments for same-sex adoption are not sustained by objective
research, according to Simon Fraser University economist Douglas Allen.
Allen told LifeSiteNews that though many studies argue the case that
same-sex couples make as good parents, they all suffer from serious
methodological weaknesses, especially in biased sampling. In many cases,
for example, same-sex couples are self-selected by placing
advertisements in gay periodicals or on bulletin boards in gay community
clubs. Homosexual couples who are happy with the job they are doing as
parents are far more likely to volunteer for such studies than those who
are not, heavily skewing the outcome.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-14613c61-d6c0-d89a-afe1-673944c677e1">Allen’s
own study, based simply on correlating the responses of Canadians to
the 2006 national census, showed children from same-sex households had
two thirds the high school graduation rate of children in heterosexual
families.</span></div>
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showed Canadian male and female homosexuals marry at a much lower rate
than heterosexuals. Surveying government data on 65,000 people, he told
LifeSiteNews, “we find that about 12.2% of lesbians are married, 4.5% of
gays, and 48.8% of heterosexuals. These numbers are similar to numbers
found in Europe. Despite the rhetoric, gays and lesbians do not take up
marriage in large numbers.” Since married couples stay together much
more than non-marrieds, their children will be both happier and more
successful.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691881627997743918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430554814881126954.post-11737465197158463892016-02-17T14:59:00.000-08:002016-02-17T14:59:00.246-08:00adopting our daughter from a Ukrainian orphanage<span class="first-paragraph">
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After adopting our
daughter from a Ukrainian orphanage in 2002, my family made a commitment
to do whatever we can to improve the lives of orphans and homeless
children through humanitarian relief efforts, community outreach, and
adoption advocacy programs. We do this out of love and because in
Matthew 25, Jesus is very clear about his expectations for his
followers. Feed the hungry, provide drinks for the thirsty, give
clothing to the needy, care for strangers, visit those who are sick or
in prison.<br />
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Our next journey will take us
halfway around the world to Moa Wharf in Sierra Leone. It is a slum
where hundreds of children have been made orphans in the wake of the
Ebola crisis horror.<br />
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Sleeping on piles of rotting
clothes and heaping garbage, these young children are vulnerable to
disease, physical abuse and exploitation — all danger at its truest
form. Girls as young as 5 are the sexual property of wicked men. The
orphans are stigmatized and discarded in their own communities.<br />
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The children deserve a better life. They have no voice except for yours and mine, and they need us to act on their behalf.<br />
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My son Michael and I are making
plans to travel to Sierra Leone in July on a humanitarian aid mission as
representatives of Embracing Children Adoption Services based in
Plymouth.<br />
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If your heart leads you to help the Ebola orphans, we would gladly accept your support in the following ways:<br />
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accepting donations of new clothing and shoes for children of all ages,
first aid supplies, toothbrushes and toothpaste, and other items that
can be packed in checked luggage. (No books, liquids, or
battery-operated items, please.)</li>
<li>Financial contributions: A GoFundMe page, <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/robinchance">https://www.gofundme.com/robinchance</a>,
has been set up to provide funding for an interim foster care home for
Ebola orphans and for in-country food and medical care, and to help with
travel costs.</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691881627997743918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430554814881126954.post-64353244185637932992016-02-17T14:56:00.003-08:002016-02-17T15:09:15.192-08:00difficult questions about the ethics of the surrogacy<h2 class="dek">
A battle over triplets raises difficult questions about the ethics of the surrogacy industry and the meaning of parenthood.</h2>
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California woman named Melissa Cook decided to become a commercial
surrogate. Cook is a mother of four, including a set of triplets, and
had served as a surrogate once before, delivering a baby for a couple in
2013. According to her lawyer, Harold Cassidy, she’d found it to be a
rewarding way to supplement the salary she earned at her office job.
“Like other women in this situation, she was motivated by two things:
One, it was a good thing to do for people, and two, she needed some
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For her second surrogacy, Cook signed up with a broker
called Surrogacy International. Robert Walmsley, a fertility attorney
and part owner of the firm, says he was initially reluctant to work with
her because of her age, but relented after she presented a clean bill
of health from her doctor. Eventually, Surrogacy International matched
her with a would-be father, known in court filings as C.M.</div>
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According to a lawsuit filed on Cook’s behalf in United
States District Court in Los Angeles earlier this month, C.M. is a
50-year-old single man, a postal worker who lives with his elderly
parents in Georgia. Cook never met him in person, and because C.M. is
deaf, Cassidy says the two never spoke on the phone or communicated in
any way except via email. In May, Cook signed a contract promising her
$33,000 to carry a pregnancy, plus a $6,000 bonus in case of multiples.
In August, Jeffrey Steinberg, a high-profile fertility doctor, used in
vitro fertilization to implant Cook with three male embryos that were
created using C.M.’s sperm and a donor egg. (According to the lawsuit,
the gender selection was done at C.M.’s request.) When an egg donor is
under 35, as C.M.’s was, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
strongly recommends implanting only one embryo to avoid a multiple
pregnancy, but some clinics will implant more to increase the chances
that at least one will prove viable. In this case, they all survived.
For the second time in her life, Cook was pregnant with triplets. And
soon, the virtual relationship she had with their father would fall
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Cook and C.M. are still strangers to each other, but they are locked
in a legal battle over both the future of the children she’s going to
bear and the institution of surrogacy itself. Because she’s come under
pressure to abort one of the fetuses, Cook’s case has garnered some <a href="http://liveactionnews.org/surrogate-pregnant-triplets-threatened-financial-ruin-doesnt-abort/" target="_blank">conservative media</a>
attention. This story, however, is about much more than the abortion
wars. It illustrates some of the thorniest issues plaguing the fertility
industry: the creation of high-risk multiple pregnancies, the lack of
screening of intended parents, the financial vulnerability of
surrogates, and the almost complete lack of regulation around surrogacy
in many states.</div>
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The United States is one of the few developed countries where commercial, or paid, surrogacy is allowed—it is <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-28679020" target="_blank">illegal</a> in Canada and most of Europe. In the U.S., it’s governed by a <a href="http://www.creativefamilyconnections.com/#%21surrogacy-law-by-state/f49jq" target="_blank">patchwork</a> of contradictory state laws. Eight states expressly authorize it. Four states<b>—</b>New
York, New Jersey, Washington, and Michigan—as well as the District of
Columbia prohibit it. In the remaining states, there’s either no law at
all on commercial surrogacy or it is allowed with restrictions.</div>
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California is considered a particularly friendly place for surrogacy arrangements. In 1993, a California Supreme Court ruling, <i>Johnson v. Calvert</i>,
denied the attempts of a gestational surrogate named Anna Johnson to
assert maternal rights. (A gestational surrogate is one like Cook who
has no genetic relationship to the fetus or fetuses she caries.) What
mattered in determining maternity, the court ruled, were the intentions
of the various parties going into the pregnancy: “Because two women each
have presented acceptable proof of maternity, we do not believe this
case can be decided without enquiring into the parties’ intentions as
manifested in the surrogacy agreement,” the court said. It was a victory
for Walmsley, who represented the couple who’d hired Johnson as their
surrogate.</div>
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A 2012 California law, which went into effect this year, codifies
procedures for surrogacy agreements; among other things, it specifies
that both surrogates and intended parents must have their own lawyers.
If a contract is executed in accordance with the law, then a gestational
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“Surrogacy’s been distinguished as something completely different
from adoption,” says Lisa Ikemoto, a UC Davis School of Law professor
who specializes in reproductive rights and bioethics. Unlike in
adoption, there’s no legally required screening of intended parents. A
pregnant woman who offers to give her baby up for adoption can
reconsider her decision; in California, a pregnant surrogate cannot. To a
large extent, the law “puts a lot of trust in a surrogacy center to
make sure that these things are carried out appropriately,” Ikemoto
says. “It’s very industry-friendly, and by ‘industry,’ I’m referring to
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In California, that industry is known for pushing boundaries. It is
the state that gave us the so-called Octomom, Nadya Suleman, who gave
birth to octuplets in 2009 after her fertility doctor implanted her with
12 embryos. Also in 2009, the Modesto-based surrogacy agency
SurroGenesis was revealed to have defrauded clients of millions of
dollars, leaving some intended parents unable to pay the surrogates who
were carrying their children. The <i>New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/us/21surrogate.html" target="_blank">reported</a>
that one surrogate, pregnant with twins and confined to bed rest,
received an eviction notice after the couple who had hired her were
unable to reimburse her for lost wages.</div>
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Three years later, in 2012, a prominent California surrogacy broker
named Theresa Erickson was sentenced to prison for leading an <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-diego-women-sentenced-baby-selling-case/story?id=15785854" target="_blank">international baby-selling ring</a>.
Erickson, a former board member of the American Fertility Association,
recruited surrogates and sent them to Ukraine, where they were implanted
with embryos created from donated eggs and sperm. She put the resulting
babies up for adoption, telling prospective parents that they were the
result of surrogacies in which the original intended parents had backed
out. Erickson collected between $100,000 and $150,000 for each baby.
After she was sentenced, she <a href="http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Theresa-Erickson-Surrogacy-Abuse-Selling-Babies-140942313.html" target="_blank">told</a> NBC San Diego that her case represented the “tip of the iceberg” of a corrupt industry.</div>
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Even when it’s not corrupt, the industry often tests the limits of
bioethics. Steinberg, the doctor who performed Cook’s embryo transfer,
was last in the news for marketing embryo screening for hair, eye, and
skin color. “This is cosmetic medicine,” he told the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>.
“Others are frightened by the criticism but we have no problems with
it.” He was a pioneer in the use of IVF for sex selection, and his
clinic draws clients from <a href="http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=5352" target="_blank">countries</a> around the world where the practice is banned.</div>
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“We don’t have good oversight of the whole fertility industry,” says
Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Center for Genetics and
Society in Berkeley, California, and a longtime women’s health advocate.
“It’s very underregulated, and we need to be taking that really
seriously. California is a surrogacy-friendly state and thinks that it’s
doing surrogacy the right way. But there have been enough problems in
California that clearly something is not right.”</div>
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From the beginning, the arrangement between Cook and C.M. appears to
have been plagued by miscommunication. Cassidy acknowledges that Cook
only gave a cursory read to the 75-page surrogacy contract before
signing it. Walmsley of Surrogacy International drafted the contract; he
is also serving as C.M.’s attorney. (At the time, Cook was being
represented by a lawyer named Lesa Slaughter, paid for by C.M.) Cook
contends that she didn’t know about the contract’s provision, common in
surrogacy agreements, allowing C.M. to request a selective reduction, in
which one or more of the fetuses in a multiple pregnancy is aborted.
(In reporting this story, I had multiple conversations with Cassidy and
Walmsley, but neither allowed me to interview their clients directly.)</div>
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According to Cook’s lawsuit, before the embryo transfer, C.M. assured
her via email that he could accept responsibility for all the children
that might result. But while C.M. had been prepared for twins, he didn’t
want triplets. Indeed, her suit says, soon after her pregnancy was
confirmed, it became clear that C.M. had exhausted his savings, and
wasn’t sure he could care for more than one baby.</div>
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Marie* explains why she and her husband are planning to use a surrogate mother in <span class="search">Ukraine</span>:</h4>
<div class="no_name">
I was diagnosed with a chronic heart and lung
condition a few years ago and, while the news in itself was devastating,
I was also shattered by the fact that I would not be able to get
pregnant. There is an estimated 30-50 per cent mortality rate for both
mother and baby if I was to give birth.</div>
<div class="no_name">
I went from being a normal woman in my mid-20s,
working full-time and doing a postgraduate degree by night with all
sorts of dreams, to someone who would be fortunate to work part-time and
likely require a lung transplant in the future.</div>
<div class="no_name">
From that moment, myself and my boyfriend (now my
husband) knew we would go down the road of surrogacy, as adoption is
effectively at a standstill in this country.</div>
<div class="no_name">
We had assumed that legislation would be in by now.
After the Government chose to remove surrogacy from the Bill last year
we decided we could not wait on politicians’ promises any longer. The
time is right for us.</div>
<h4 class="crosshead">
Costs</h4>
Obviously finances are a consideration and limit where we can go to
do the surrogacy. The US is the most straightforward route but it is
financially prohibitive – anywhere from €130,000-€170,000 due to the
medical and insurance costs there.<br />
<div class="no_name">
As it is, we will probably need to remortgage our home to fund surrogacy in Ukraine.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Emotionally, I think we will struggle through the
pregnancy and when we go over to Ukraine to bring our baby home. It’ll
be difficult being sent scans and having Skype calls, looking at our
surrogate’s bump without really feeling any sense of control or
connection.</div>
<div class="no_name">
We have excellent legal advice here and an excellent
lawyer in Ukraine so, should there be any hiccups, we will be reassured
by the fact that they will be there to help us.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Ethically, we don’t really have any hesitations. We do not feel that women are exploited just to be wombs for rent.</div>
<div class="no_name">
As well as generous compensation, the surrogates
receive lots of support and counselling and enter into the agreement of
their own free will. That is a choice a woman should be allowed to make
for herself, it’s her body.</div>
<div class="no_name">
We really admire anyone who is willing to do that
for another couple. This woman will nurture our baby for nine months and
we will be forever grateful.</div>
<h4 class="crosshead">
Medication</h4>
Medically, we had some reservations but not enough to stop us. I am
on a lot of medication and one is dangerous to foetuses so I think I
will need to stop this while I take the IVF drugs to stimulate my eggs
for egg retrieval.<br />
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<div class="no_name">
Online, we have met lots of couples who have had babies through surrogacy and others who are in the middle of their journey.</div>
<div class="no_name">
We attended some surrogacy support meetings held by the National Infertility Support and Information Group too.</div>
<div class="no_name">
We have been very open with family and friends. They understand that this is what we need to do to complete our family.</div>
<div class="no_name">
As well as remortgaging our house, we will also have
to factor in the cost of me not working for the first few months – I
won’t get maternity leave – as well as legal costs. We will also need to
travel to Ukraine three to four times and will need to stay there for
five to six weeks around the time of the birth.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Ukraine is attractive as its surrogacy programmes
start at approximately €33,000 and legislation is protective of the
intended parents: we will be named on the Ukrainian birth certificate
and there will be no mention of the surrogate mother.</div>
<div class="no_name">
The contracts are binding and the surrogate cannot change her mind.</div>
<div class="no_name">
The lack of legislation in Ireland is frustrating because surrogacy is happening – a lot – and is increasing.</div>
<h4 class="crosshead">
Birth cert</h4>
As we will be using our own genetic material – my eggs and my
husband’s sperm – we should be recognised as the sole parents of our
child.<br />
<div class="no_name">
Even though we will be on a Ukrainian birth cert, I will never get to go on the Irish birth cert as my baby’s mother.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Another advantage of legislation would be that Irish
couples could openly do the IVF, egg retrieval and freezing of embryos
here.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Our biggest hope is that by next year we will be expecting our own child.</div>
<div class="no_name">
I’m scared about being on our own away from our
families in a foreign country with a new baby waiting to get home. It’s
not how I ever imagined spending my first few weeks of motherhood.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Name has been changed. Story as told to Sheila Wayman</div>
<div class="no_name">
<strong>Filling surrogacy support gap</strong></div>
<div class="no_name">
<span class="search">Families Through Surrogacy</span>, which is running the Dublin conference in March, was founded by Australian <span class="search">Sam Everingham</span> after he experienced at first hand the lack of support for intended parents.</div>
<div class="no_name">
“My partner and I had a very tough road to
parenthood through surrogacy in India, experiencing the loss of twin
boys, Zac and Ben, when they were born premature at 28 weeks,” he says.
“Ben survived just seven weeks in a New Delhi hospital; Zac was
stillborn.”</div>
<div class="no_name">
On returning home to deal with this loss, it soon
became clear there were no support networks or organisations equipped to
assist and advise surrogates and intended parents alike. To fill this
gap, Everingham set up Surrogacy Australia in 2011 and, two years later,
founded Families Through Surrogacy, which he describes as “a
non-profit, global, consumer- based organisation”.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Meanwhile, he and his partner, <span class="search">Phil Copland</span>, “found the strength to continue our own journey and had two girls, Zoe and Ruby, via two separate surrogates in India”.</div>
<div class="no_name">
They are now both four and a half years old.</div>
<div class="no_name">
Families Through Surrogacy focuses, he explains, on
providing up-to-date resources on surrogacy options around the globe –
“no mean feat as this is an area in constant flux. We have seen India,
Thailand and Nepal close their borders to foreigners seeking surrogacy
in the recent past.”</div>
<div class="no_name">
As to what countries Irish intended parents should
consider, he points out that certain US states such as California,
Nevada and Oregon have long experience of surrogacy (30-plus years).</div>
<div class="no_name">
“This experience means surrogate screening, matching
and care is second to none. However, the US system can be pricey,” he
acknowledges.</div>
<div class="no_name">
“Canada is emerging as a somewhat more affordable,
yet still reliable, option and in Europe, Ukraine has been offering
legal, well-run surrogacy programmes to heterosexuals for 15 years.”</div>
<div class="no_name">
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<div class="no_name">
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<div class="no_name">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691881627997743918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430554814881126954.post-67987894229902658622016-02-06T12:28:00.004-08:002016-02-06T12:28:46.887-08:00Children Adoption in Ukraine<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The history of <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a> this
is the rare example where the private initiative of the organization
changed the system in the state. Children Adoption in Ukraine is one of
the main initiatives and efforts in the fight against abandonment of
children and most importantly give a family to a child instead of the
boarding schools and orphanages.<br />
I firmly believe that orphanages in Ukraine should not exist as a
long term solution, every child should have a family and the only job of
state orphanage should be to help find adoptive parents for the waiting
children, who left with no parental care for whatever life’ reason.<br />
The political will to help every child to find family and to abandon
old system of Ukraine orphanages. The motto word for Ukraine adoption
policy should be “Every child needs a family” and it shall become
official state policy in the Ukraine adoption field. To take the best of
international practice and policies, and to make it a working practice
in Ukraine, to change Ukraine adoption policy in accordance to the best
accepted standard in Europe and America, to live up to highest standards
of what is best for the child, that we a country can do. And then each
child in Ukraine will have a chance for a family, a chance for the
future, a chance for the happiness. Lets at least try our best.<br />
<span style="color: #3a3a3a; font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, sans-serif;">thanks to the Internet, Ukrainian information and news on Ukraine adoption through the blogs and news portal like </span>Ukraine
adoption gets out to news partners in all-Ukrainian public organization
facilitating adoption in Ukraine. The war reveals all the problems and
the number of children-orphans who deprived of parental care is growing.
This applies to both the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, and in the whole
of Ukraine. For the first 9 months of 2015 have been adopted and taken
into foster care 513 children (last year during the same period, were
760 children transferred to orphanages.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691881627997743918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430554814881126954.post-10036320655099361032016-02-06T12:27:00.001-08:002016-02-06T12:27:10.585-08:00The Family, which everyone needs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why have we chosen assistance to Ukraine orphanages of family
type specifically not the general orphanage house but specific
family-type orphanages ? Because we believe: children need a family. Of
course, boarding schools, also requires help and assistance in every way
but we believe the primal concept is different here, family -type
orphanages has the key word that other type of government care for
abandoned children do not have, it s the Family. Family type should
bring to every orphan in its care something what every orphan needs the
most is the Family. Every orphan kid likewise any other kid needs needs
many other things as well but what he is deprived of is family care. It
is certain we must provide all orphan children with what they need like
food and clothing, sport gears and equipment, furniture, school
belonging etc , and we will to the extent finances will permit us to do
so, but what we can not provide is a Family. This is the new national
policy of Ukraine on the public domain of Ukraine adoption: Family is a
priority. Therefore under new <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a>
policies domestic and international adoption are set forth as
prerogative in any decision on the fate of the abandoned children and
only in those case where adoption of a child into a family is no longer
an option then other state care solution should be considered.
Family-type orphanage come into option of a secondary priority option in
determining the future of abandoned child. It is also announced that
before 2020 all or at least majority of school boards orphanages should
be closed as outlive old state care facilities in upbringing orphan
children. It is sure a daring statement on the part of the government,
the goal is set too high almost at non-achievable level, but at least if
we do only half the work government set out to do, we still going to
achieve a great deal of good dead. So we will try. This is national
policy towards Ukraine adoption practice set forth right now in Ukraine.
The objective – children’s homes of family type as the Large adoptive
family.</div>
<div>
Family-type orphanages first appeared in Ukraine in 1989, but until
2008 were not favored nor actively present in Ukraine. It was only when
state actively involved in the work of developing such approach it not
not become a common solution to the problem of orphanage children. There
were units all over Ukraine, in these orphanages were raised just 4
thousand children, in comparison in boarding schools were raise around
30 thousand in the same period of time. In Donetsk region were set up
first family-type orphanages back in 2008 and later since 2011 in
Ukraine.</div>
<div>
In 2011 new project “Family for child”, and we started with the
Dnepropetrovsk region, where new approach was developed of family forms
of care, supported foster families, helped orphanages of family type. It
turned out that in the Dnepropetrovsk region children quite readily
accept the education. There were many such families created in
Dnepropetrovsk region. As the result, today in the orphanages of
Dnepropetrovsk region are somewhere around 500 orphans only, and you can
assume that eventually we will find families for everyone!</div>
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Ukraine Church <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.81">Metropolit</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.82">Volodymyr</span> against the ban on abortion</div>
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Metropolit <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.83">Volodymyr</span> spoke against the ban of abortions at the legislative level, adding that they need to fight “word and heart”.</div>
<div>
Such opinion the head of the <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.84">UOC</span> of the Russian Patriarchate Church in Ukraine said on the air.</div>
<div>
In particular, answering the question as it relates to the
initiative to at the legislative level, the termination of pregnancy, <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.85">Metropolit</span> stated that the Church categorically “denies the possibility of abortion”, including their sin of murder.</div>
<div>
“Regarding religious understanding – this murder, which terminates the life of a particular person,” he said.</div>
<div>
“But there is another point of view. It is hardly necessary
abortions to preach. We must fight against them, and this fight goes
on,” said the <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.86">Metropolit</span>.</div>
<div>
In his opinion, banning abortion will not bring the desired results. “It is better with no prohibitive law”.</div>
<div>
Ukraine MP <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.87">Shkil</span> who
proposed ban on abortion in Ukraine believes that to conduct such
operations only if pregnant suffering from tuberculosis, diabetes,
serious diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver, heart, cardiovascular
diseases and cancer or other medical reasons as well as the life threat
disease to a child.</div>
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Therefore new MP initiative was to ban abortion in Ukraine but met with the strong opposition</div>
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Ukraine MP Minister <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.55">Bogatyreva</span> banning abortion: everyone should have a choice</div>
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She stated “I am against abortion, but people should have a choice,” – said <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.56">Bogatyrev</span>.</div>
<div>
“This choice depends not only on doctors but also on many issues:
the environment in which woman was, whether she sees herself with a
child or without, – said the Minister. – Until 1953 medical abortion in
the USSR were banned and very severely punished. And there was a
terrible mortality statistics of young women from illegal abortion –
because if a person decided to do something, he will find a way to do
it.”</div>
<div>
There is also inherent conflict of interests : Doctors doing
abortions violate the Hippocratic oath, that all doctors make prior
becoming a doctor by status and profession. This statement made in
Ukraine not only by the Church but also by many citizens. While <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.57">Raisa</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.58">Bohatyryova</span> stressed that she does not advise anyone to have abortions, it should not be banned.</div>
<div>
“There will always be someone from the medical staff who will be
able to help you with such personal decision such as an abortion.” – she
summed up.</div>
<div>
We will remind, earlier the MP Andrey <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.59">Shkil</span> has registered in the <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.60">Verkhovna</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.61">Rada</span> Parliament of Ukraine a draft law banning women to voluntarily have abortions.</div>
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Ukrainians have become less likely to abandon newborns. As
statistics shows that in Ukraine people were less likely to leave
newborn children in maternity homes. This was officially declared on the
press conference, by the Deputy Director of the Department of
motherhood, childhood and sanatorium ensuring V. K<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.8">olomiychuk</span>. “In 2010, hospitals were left more than 700 children, and last year 599”, – said V. K<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":2sm.10">olomiychuk</span>.
According to the expert, the improvement of the situation contributed
to the prevention of unwanted pregnancies. We will remind, earlier it
was reported that Ukrainian Schoolgirls make 2 thousand abortions a
year.<br />
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In the framework of a new social projects that have started in
Ukraine, project organizer will introduce potential adoptive parents and
interested in becoming one citizen with the real stories of adoptive
waiting children who are in orphanages of Ukraine right now. The project
is intended to be interactive where adoptive parents and compassionate
people can help these children, as foster parents, potential adoptive
parents or just as the friends of children citizens by taking part in
the mentoring program. The fate of these children can change for the
better with your help – in any case, and opportunity to track children
success in the future.</div>
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<a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a>
initiative take a creative role to bring to the public attention the
awareness of the problem of abandoned children in Ukraine and to create
the environment for the better understanding of the need to bring this
equal opportunity to each and every one child in Ukraine through
adoption or foster care or at least public support and awareness of
lives of these children in Ukraine orphanage, their daily difficulties
and life obstacles, children who needs help from compassionate people.
Children who needs <a href="http://interadopt.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a> into domestic or international adoptive families or foster parents to better their lives and life opportunities.</div>
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In Kiev opened an exhibition devoted to problems of upbringing of
children in orphanages. In the art gallery will show 8 art objects by
Ukrainian artists, United by one theme, also in the gallery in Kiev,
launched the exhibition-presentation of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.52">socio</span>-cultural
project “Open doors for children”. “We have a chance to realize the
need for radical change to ensure equal rights for all children and
provide an opportunity to grow in an environment of love and care,” said
organizers in a release event. The project organized by the
organization “Hope and homes”.</div>
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According to organizers, the project aims to emphasize the fact
that the European integration is impossible without changes in every
sphere of life, and especially in the lives of children who live in
orphanages without the opportunity to exercise their rights in society.</div>
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The project involved artists and photographers, who provided eight
of the art facilities. The first one is located at the entrance to the
gallery. It is the cradle from 7 balloons, which symbolize the hope that
the system would be destroyed.</div>
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Renowned photographer and documentary filmmaker Alexander G<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.53">lyadelov</span> is a social photo project “become as little children” – series of works of children from orphanages to family-type homes.</div>
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The painter Anton <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.54">Logov</span>
has created an installation of mirrors, “a Long journey”. On the mirror
written dreams and thoughts of children living in orphanages, which
provide an opportunity to see how the lives of these children and to see
myself in the mirror, to reflect on their own participation in the
solution of this problem.</div>
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The work of Alexandra <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.55">Gomeloboi</span> is an example of how different children develop in the family and in the orphanage.</div>
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<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.56">Yuriy</span> K<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.57">ruchak</span>
at the exposition will present the documentary project “Free wing”. The
artist, visiting orphanages, taught children to create a flying machine
– a glider – as a symbol of dreams that can be launched into the sky.
The exhibition presents the works of these children, as well as videos
about their lives.</div>
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Alina <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.58">Pivnenko</span> is a
series of three portraits of famous people who were adopted, among
them: the founder of Apple Steve Jobs, scientist-cosmologist Stephen
Hawking and actor Pablo <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.59">Pineda</span>. Portraits-collages were created with fabric and glossy paper.</div>
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Completes project work Catherine <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.60">Buchach</span>.
“Not rooted” are the plants in the water, in a sterile environment and
with the perfect light, but without the land in which they could
germinate. Through plants, the author shows families that cannot take
root without children.</div>
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In the previous policies of Ukraine on children <a href="http://adoptionpr.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a> programs under previous president of Ukraine <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.3">Yanukovych</span>
national adoption programs were set in favor of Ukraine domestic
adoption “Ukrainian orphans should be adopted Ukrainians” rather then
international adoption programs, today under a new government Ukraine
national policy focus on results of bring together adoptive families and
waiting children together regardless of origin of adoptive parents
national Ukrainian adoptive parents of international adoptive parents,
the focus remain clear, every child should be place with adoptive
parents.</div>
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The previous president of Ukraine <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.6">Viktor</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.7">Yanukovych</span>
should be credited with much of the positive changes that was made
under his governance, he called for an improvement of the responsible
authorities in <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a> field, but policies were in favor of domestic adoption of Ukraine children -orphans to be adopted by citizens of Ukraine.</div>
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He told about it during all-Ukrainian meeting on child rights, and
what priorities should be for Ukraine adoption authorities, here is some
of his statement to the press service of the President.</div>
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“We need to make sure every child deprived of parental care,
regardless of age and health was adopted by citizens of Ukraine and
stayed in the Homeland,” he said.</div>
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The head of state stressed that Ukraine should be improved the
system of informing of citizens about the possibilities of adoption.</div>
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“We need to improve, to overcome stereotypes in such a delicate
area of adoption, better inform citizens, to more effectively involve
media,” – said <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.8">Yanukovych</span>.</div>
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The President noted that in the last 2 years the number of children adopted by citizens of Ukraine is constantly decreasing.</div>
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<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.9">Yanukovych</span> stressed
that at least in the media and there are calls to adopt children, but
information about the children themselves are hard to find.</div>
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“From screens of TVs and pages of Newspapers are continually urging
people to take the orphaned child into their family, but information
about what children may be adopted to find very difficult,” said
President.</div>
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According to him, the responsible authorities should effectively attract the media to their information campaigns.</div>
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Ukraine adoption program facilitates Ukrainians who wish to
become mentors with orphanage children. In Ukraine started new mentoring
project for children-orphans and children who deprived of parental care
as Ukraine states the status of children in custody of federal
government family-type orphanages. Representatives of Service for
children of Kiev and mentoring project “One Hope” – the first turn to
participate in the project are selected teenagers who have no loved
ones. Volunteers who are willing to become close friends for the
orphans, undergo a rigorous selection and special training under the
federal program of <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a> set forth for domestic adoptive parents and people considering the option of adopting children from orphanages.</div>
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“The goal of the project is the formation of the closest emotional relationships,by and between adoptive parents under domestic <a href="http://interadoptionagency.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a> parents and waiting children in Ukraine orphanages’ says a curator from the Service for children of Julia <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.559">Udovenko</span>.
Similar program will be set forth for international adoptive families
wishing to undergo similar type of program to have such opportunity to
meet with waiting children in Ukraine adoption orphanages. – A mentor is
a friend who will be with the child to enjoy his success, to which the
child can turn to for help. A long-term project, it does not end at the
exit of the child from the orphanage. If possible, the mentor should
invite the child to my family, on weekends, on vacation. For starters,
such outlets can be a caregiver from the orphanage or from the
coordinator of our project”. Lean more on this programs and initiative
set forth under Ukraine adoption project one child – one family.</div>
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If there is a will there is a way as the popular saying goes one children <a href="http://ukrainianadop.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a> service agency sent children from orphanages at the world hockey championship</div>
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Students of the <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.13">Kyiv</span>,
Ukraine municipal orphanage №1, the Stationary-educational boarding
school №26 and children from crisis families had the unique opportunity
to visit the world hockey championship, held at the Ice arena SEC
“Terminal” in <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.14">Brovary</span> (<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.15">Kyiv</span> region).</div>
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Trip for pupils of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.16">Kyiv</span> boarding schools organized by the international charitable Foundation, reported on the official website of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.17">ICF</span>.</div>
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According to the Director of the boarding school O. <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.18">Pavlichenko</span>,
the attention of organizers and unforgettable emotions – this is the
ultimate gift for the orphans. “Our pupils had no opportunities to
attend such an event. Comfortable buses, which delivered the children to
the championship and back to the hostel for a delicious dinner created
an atmosphere of celebration,” said O. <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.19">Pavlichenko</span>.
According to her, such events not only give children experience, but
also stimulate their desire to play sports and get the joy of victory.
Learn more on efforts made out to <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a>
programs by international adoption agencies and associations. “To
overestimate the emotional rise children it’s hard, I’m sure that this
championship they will never forget,” said O. <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.20">Pavlichenko</span>.</div>
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Children from <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":ug.21">Kyiv</span>
city orphanage No. 1 told that the championship they liked, the game was
fun and intense and they got unforgettable impressions. “To be honest,
I’ve never had the opportunity to attend such an event. I am fond of
hockey and because this event was for me a real treat. In addition, I
enjoyed the trip, I even saw a real game professionals. I thank the
Foundation for the opportunity to attend this celebration and the sea of
positive emotions”, – said the pupil in a city shelter Alexander P.</div>
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For past years of children adoption foundation in Ukraine has
helped thousands children to find their adoptive parents and foster
care. Two out of these three adopted children were adopted in Ukraine
through domestic adoption program with Ukrainian parents. All these
children are the lucky ones, they have found their adoptive families
their fathers and mothers, their new families. They will grow in their
new families and there be a lot of doors that will be opened before
them. It will not be easy. But they already have and will have a choice.
Something other children do not have.</div>
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The history of adoption in Ukraine – this is the rare example where
the private initiative of the organization changed the system in the
state. Ukraine Adoption is one of the main tools, and probably the most
important method in the fight against children abandonment in Ukraine as
well as in any other country that face the same problem of abandoned
children like Ukraine adoption today. For other children who have not
found their adoptive family the choice will be left between the boarding
schools and orphanages.</div>
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There are many voice today that says that Ukraine should do away
with this old system of orphanages in Ukraine, it is simply should not
exist any more. Who would of say no ? Children should grow up in
families, and good families, but do we actually have this alternatives?
Perhaps orphanages of family type a new government initiatives will do
help in solving the problem to a certain extent but it will not solve
the problem to the point that entire boarding school system can be
dismantled and forgotten as the thing of the past.</div>
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Here are some barriers?</div>
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First, the “residential” system of orphanage in Ukraine is new and
not fully developed as the concept it is positive but it is still new.
It works this way to prevent adoption of the children by adoptive
parents in both domestic and/or international adoptions. The argument
behind this statement is in the fact how these family type orphanage
organized, they get their government financing as a boarding schools
based on the number of orphaned children admitted in the school.
Therefore, as the argument goes employees of these institution
family-type orphanages are the first people who are not interested in
adoption of their orphanage children.</div>
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Very often, children are being hidden from potential adoptive
parents, who would take the child or children into their personal
adoptive family, not the institution family type orphanage. It is also
noted that these family-type orphanages attribute to a non-existent
illness or mental disorder of the child to prevent these children to be
adopted by adoptive parents, as a some sort of deterrent factor that
will discourage adoptive parents from going any further to adopt these
children, labeled with mental disease. But will these institution
family-type orphanage any better for a child then adoptive family ? of
course not. But bureaucracy still makes its way. Certainly these people
and institutions are not govern by the best interest of the child.</div>
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Every good adoptive organization in Ukraine shall be able to verify
these “disease” and tell the truth to adoptive parents, the true state
of health of the adoptive child and with the help of authorised adoptive
agencies to overcome all of these obstacles and get these
“institutional disease” treated immediately with the help of government
legal assistance office. Ukraine policies towards abandoned children in
orphanages are made clear for everyone and give priorities in the field
of <a href="http://intercountryadoptions.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a>,
both domestic adoptions and international adoption. Ukraine adoption is
the priority policy towards abandoned children in Ukraine.</div>
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The second problem, which systematically employs only the public
initiative is the formation in Ukraine of the culture of adoption.
Although over the last 10 years have seen fantastic mental shift in
culture of adoption in Ukraine there is still much left to be done to
develop better understanding and public receipt and public encouragement
for adoption. Now adoption in Ukraine is no taboo subject for
discussion, no shame, no big deal. But still it is not yet encouraged
and public did not speak in favor of it openly. The process of public
learning is still going on with much of a progress.</div>
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The third problem is the most difficult right now, it has been aggravated by the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine is a social <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":1sc.28">orphanhood</span>.
This is when devastated economic fabric of society and deteriorating
welfare state and medical care forcing parents to leave children because
of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":1sc.30">socio</span>-economic problems or because of severe diseases of child.</div>
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<a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a> programs has all “prescriptions and drugs” in order to solve the problem of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":1sc.31">orphanhood</span> and to permanently close the doors of children’s orphan homes.</div>
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Ukraine adoption federal program shall adopt only 4 steps:</div>
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1. The political will to close orphanages as the system for child
care, with adoption programs in place to care for abandoned children</div>
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2. Motto “Every child needs a family” has already become official state policy of Ukraine in the adoption field</div>
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3. To take working adoption policies and practice in Ukraine to
support both domestic adoption and international adoption of Ukraine
children. To adopt the best of international practice and policy in the
field of domestic and international adoptions.</div>
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4. Roll the sleeves and work</div>
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Then each of the presently abandoned child in Ukraine will have a
chance for a new family, a chance for the future, a chance at happiness.</div>
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God Bless</div>
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In the Donetsk region situation with adoptive children were
difficult to say at least the region hit by the war. War ruined many
lives and affected all people living there and in Ukraine as a country
no one left untouched by the war. War distracted all the attention – the
state became less concerned with children and issues of children
adoption in Ukraine, effort towards issues of children abandonment
became neglected by officials in Kiev, because in the foreground there
were other problems brought by the war. No, of course, we do not see a
sharp decline in government help to help orphan children, but we don’t
see any growth, which is a must in situation of war and it is very sad.</div>
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And this despite the fact that in previous years orphanages in
Donetsk have achieved development of a systematic approach to the orphan
hood in the country. We have focused on the prevention of this
phenomenon as the primal cause of abandoned kids, government assistance
to families in difficult situations did help to avoid may families from
total collapse and therefore prevent children from being send to
orphanage system, the preservation of the native family for every child
was the goal in mind for every social welfare program introduced by the
state, and our lead began to follow in other part of Ukraine in other
orphanage system on both municipal and federal level of children
programs. There were created two mother and child center model type
service in Donetsk and Kiev, to help ease the program of orphanage in
Ukraine and they helped to keep children in families who wanted to give
up the baby to orphanage in Ukraine. There was an opened a support
Center for families and children, which helps more than 1 thousand
families to keep the family and their children in their families… But
war has put a stop on further program progress and the present efforts
and expense from the government is not enough. Therefore in our opinion
the help to children today may come from adoptive parents both national
and international <a href="http://adoptionpr.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a>
programs and adoptive families. Ukraine adoption is a one single program
that may give the most amount of help to all orphanage in Ukraine.
Ukraine adoption international assistance to adoptive parents the one
requires least amount of government support, and except of regulation
free government effort of helping abandoned kids in Ukraine orphanages. <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a>
domestic program expected to be the most effective solution to deal
with abandoned children in Ukraine but requires substantial government
assistance programs to the Ukraine domestic adoptive families who will
adopted children from orphanages in Ukraine.</div>
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We all should remember that behind mere listing of achievements
there are all of us, Ukraine children in orphanages and in adoptive
families, there are lives and stories , there are our Ukraine history.
Stories of those who did not get into a boarding school because he
already had a home, and every home with children is a valuable and must
be cherished.</div>
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But now in Donetsk everything stopped. Our first priority was the
salvation of men who fight in war. Children of Donetsk were evacuated to
foster families and family-type orphanages away from the war zone, but
for how long the war shall continues , nobody knows … for now in matters
of child abandonment, its overcoming and prevention in the country
everything has practically stopped…</div>
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Recently in Ukraine start to appear a clear national youth
policy, clear policies and set practice for Ukraine adoption, fostercare
and orphanage.</div>
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This was announced by presidential Commissioner for children’s
rights during a round table on the topic “Easy to be young” at the
Gorshenin Institute.</div>
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“It’s hard for me to say unequivocally that has been the state
youth policy. Recently very difficult to determine where it’s directed.
There are no government programs, no clear funding to solve the problems
of youth, almost a year was formed the state service of youth and
sports. So to say that there is a clearly defined public policy, I can
not”, – said Pavlenko.</div>
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According to the expert, this policy should be directed at the
ability of youth to develop and achieve success in their country of
Ukraine.</div>
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“It is obvious that the current generation is better than the
previous one, in terms of independence and clarity. For them there is
only one country – Ukraine. There is no allegiance to another country.
The fact that 65% of Ukrainians, according to sociological research, are
proud of their country, just prove it. “</div>
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More than half of young Ukrainians want to have more than one child.</div>
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This was told by Vadim Denisenko, chief editor of the weekly
“Komentari” during the presentation of the results of sociological
survey “Youth of Ukraine”.</div>
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The study was conducted by the Gorshenin Institute and the weekly “Komentari” with the support of Victor Pylypyshyn Fund.</div>
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“We have a chance to get out of demographic crisis, a great chance.
According to our study, more than 68% of respondents said they want to
have two or more children. To the question “How many children you want
to have?” was almost 16% reported one child, but of 68.3% two, 14%
three, and almost 2% – four and more. Trend is — in theory — is very
optimistic,” – said Denisenko.</div>
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According to him, family is a priority for today’s youth. 75% girls
and 64.3%. answering the question “What is important to you — family or
career?”, chose family.</div>
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<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.188">Pavlenko</span> plans to strengthen the protection of children’s rights in Ukraine.</div>
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Ukraine is ready to implement the recommendations for membership of the European network of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.189">ombuds</span> persons for the rights of the child (<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.190">ENOC</span>), which unites 27 countries.</div>
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This was stated by Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for children’s rights <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.191">Yuriy</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.192">Pavlenko</span> during a meeting with the Commissioner for children’s rights of Poland, Chairman of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.193">ENOC</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.194">Marek</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.195">Michalak</span>, reported in a press-service of the head of state. The new policies will affect Ukraine adoption programs, <a href="http://interadopt.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a>
process in respect to the domestic adoption and adoption practice in
relevance to the international adoption with respect to international
adoptive parents and foreign families wishing to adopt a child or <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.196">chilkdren</span> from Ukraine.</div>
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“We believe it is extremely important for Ukraine’s membership in
the European network of children’s ombudsmen. Therefore, we prepared
step by step to implement the suggestions that will come from <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.197">ENOC</span> in order to gradually acquire the membership”, – said Commissioner on children right in Ukraine.</div>
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Speaking about his activities in the position of Commissioner for children’s rights, <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.198">Yuriy</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.199">Pavlenko</span>
noted that for 9 months of work followed by a General analysis of the
situation in the state for the protection of children’s rights,
including without limitation international adoption policies towards
international adoptive parents and families wishing to adopt children
from Ukraine, as well as sociological research, in which for the first
time in the history of Ukraine will reflect the thought of the child. In
addition, carried out monitoring and analysis of action of institutions
in relation to the child, reviewed more than 1,500 citizens, almost
half of which children’s rights have been restored, initiated the
prosecution of guilty officials.</div>
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“The results drafted and submitted proposals for amendments to the
legislation in protecting the rights of children in Ukraine”, – said
Commissioner.</div>
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Regarding the organization of work for the protection of children’s rights in Ukraine Chairman of the European network of <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.201">ombuds</span> persons for children’s rights <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.202">Marek</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.203">Michalak</span>
noted that for efficient operation it is necessary to introduce the
European model of the Ombudsman is competent and independent, which has
certain immunities during operation in Ukraine, legislative support for
its activities from Ukraine Government and officials across across
political and administrative bodies of Ukraine, the right of legislative
initiative and independent budget to successfully function in Ukraine.</div>
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Also, according to M. <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.204">Michalak</span>,
it is important that the Commissioner have the right to monitor the
realization of programs of children’s rights in other institutions and
mechanisms of punishment in case of their violation. Special attention
was drawn to the need for the development of the office of Ombudsman for
children in Ukraine, because under his care shall be about 8 million
Ukrainians minors.</div>
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The great number of other related question shall be promoted to
public attention in Ukraine through the use and efforts of the new
office. Question of Ukraine adoption were not left aside but rather
required a focus and coordination to create and develop comprehensive
and internationally compliant adoption program in Ukraine which will
adequately address the issues and answers all the questions in both
international adoption from Ukraine by international adoption parents
and internationally qualified adoptive families who wish to adopt a
child from Ukraine, but equally responsive to all issues and questions
arising from programs of domestic adoptions in Ukraine by Ukrainian
citizen. All question on <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a> programs will be discussed publicly and shall be brought up for discussion by international expert in these domain.</div>
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During the meeting the sides agreed to exchange experience between
Ukrainian and Polish specialists and the organization of internships in
the office of the Polish children’s Ombudsman.</div>
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Earlier it was reported that the UN welcomes the establishment in Ukraine of the office of Ombudsman for children.</div>
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Authorized on the rights of the child on the occasion of September 1, wrote the children a letter.</div>
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The presidential Commissioner for the rights of the child in
Ukraine, on the occasion of 1 September first day of school, appealed to
Ukrainian children with an open letter.</div>
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Commissioner has reminded young Ukrainians that the summer holidays
are over and the new school year started. “I want to emphasize, dear
children, that the school is not only lessons and homework. This is an
opportunity to discover and develop your personal skills, share
knowledge, be helpful to classmates, to know friends in fellowship and
mutual support.</div>
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Emphasize that the right to education in Ukraine – it’s your
inalienable right guaranteed by the Constitution of Ukraine and the UN
Convention on the rights of the child in Ukraine.” Commissioner on the
personal rights of the child in Ukraine also noted that it is important
for children know and understand their rights. “It is a guarantee of
your confidence in your abilities and a decent future. You are required
to learn and to know and be able to enjoy your rights and freedom as
Ukrainian citizen.”</div>
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“Dear children! You have the right to be heard and always heard on
all questions in all situations and decisions that concern you. Your
opinion should be considered by adults and your teachers.</div>
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Any violence against you is prohibited. The state guarantees
protection from physical and psychological violence, insults and abuse,
neglect, ill-treatment, all forms of exploitation by parents, guardians,
teachers, or any other person. Remember this.</div>
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You have the right in Ukraine stated by Constitution to protection
from discrimination. No one has the right to humiliate or despise you
for social origin (i.e., from what family or environment your origin),
nationality, religion or state of health.</div>
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Although, remember that your parents or guardians responsible for
your development and life. In your best interest they care about you, so
you must listen to them and respect their will,” reads the letter.</div>
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Commissioner told the children to turn to him in case of any
problem and provided my contact information, including mailing and email
address, the page in social network <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.151">Facebook</span>,
and wished Ukrainian children, “a successful year, do not worry about
failure, joy and have a new achievements to share with parents, friends
and teachers who are your first helpers in training.”</div>
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The agreement of Merkel and Hollande to meet Poroshenko the foreign Ministry is considered the support of Ukraine.<br />
In Berlin on 24 August the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko,
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande
should agree on further steps in case of deterioration of the situation
in the Donbas because of the actions of Russia.<br />
About it the Ambassador at large MFA of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba said this on the air “24 channel”, writes UNIAN.<br />
Kuleba noted that the purpose of the meeting in Berlin is to inform
the leaders of Germany and France on the real situation in the East of
Ukraine.<br />
“On the basis of the provided information and exchange of views, the
three heads of state must coordinate their response and their next steps
to develop the script… to be ready, fully armed if Russia did choose
the path of further escalation,” – said Kuleba.<br />
According to the diplomat, the agreement of Merkel and Hollande to
meet Poroshenko in a trilateral format is a signal to Russia that
Ukraine no one leaves alone with the aggressor.<br />
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He stated that categorically condemns the use of violence by the
security forces. The presidential Commissioner for children’s rights
Yuriy Pavlenko submitted a letter of resignation due to “failure to
perform their duties”.<br />
He stated this on his page in Facebook.<br />
“Strongly condemn the violence by the special forces against peaceful
demonstrators, youth, students and children,” – said Pavlenko.<br />
The Commissioner added that up to this point he had done everything
possible to ensure the rights of children-the protesters or the children
dragged into the conflict. “Today will continue to do this as a citizen
of Ukraine”, – said Pavlenko.<br />
He also called on all parties to stop the bloodshed.<br />
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Russia is trying to take 200 Ukrainian children.<br />
Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for children’s rights Mykola
Kuleba has refuted the information on the organization in the Russian
Federation treatment 200 Ukrainian children affected by armed conflict.
About it reports “Interfax-Ukraine”.<br />
“The Commissioner of the President of Ukraine on the rights of the
child officially reported that any agreements with the representatives
of the Russian Federation regarding the necessity of the treatment of
Ukrainian children”, – said Kuleba.<br />
The Ombudsman noted that the representatives of the Russian
Federation addressed only a request for assistance in returning to
Ukraine six children, whose parents own was taken for treatment in
Russia.<br />
“Pavel Astakhov, Commissioner for children’s rights at the President
of the Russian Federation, had indeed offered to hold a bilateral
meeting on neutral territory in Minsk, but our pre-proposal to identify
issues for negotiations and no response was received,” – said Kuleba.<br />
Recall, on the eve of the Russian children’s Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov
said that about two hundred children affected by the fighting in
Ukraine may be transferred for treatment to Russia under auspices of the
Ukrainian Ombudsman for children’s rights Mykola Kuleba.<br />
He noted that as evidence that Russia intends to return the children
back to Ukraine after treatment, Moscow gave Kyiv a detailed report that
taken from 48 children of 40 returned, the life of one child, doctors
could not be saved, the other children continue treatment.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04691881627997743918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6430554814881126954.post-81248575576875005882016-02-05T00:50:00.003-08:002016-02-05T00:50:40.944-08:00The Ombudsman for children appointed Kuleba<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.14">Mykola</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.15">Kuleba</span> the head of service for children of Kiev city state administration.</div>
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President <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.17">Petro</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.18">Poroshenko</span> has appointed Nicholas <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.19">Kuleba</span> the authorized President by the rights of the child.</div>
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The corresponding decree published on the website of the President.</div>
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<span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.20">Mykola</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.21">Kuleba</span> – head of service for children of Kiev city state administration.</div>
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As reported, on February 20, the presidential Commissioner for children’s rights <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.23">Yuriy</span> <span class="J-JK9eJ-PJVNOc" id=":37l.24">Pavlenko</span> resigned.</div>
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has called on Ukrainians
that are considering adoption of a child, do not doubt, please do adopt.</div>
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This is stated in the address of the President to the Ukrainian people on the occasion of the Day of Ukraine <a href="http://interadopt.blogspot.ca/">adoption</a>.</div>
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“I appeal to those Ukrainians who are thinking over adopting a
child. Do not hesitate, do this step, because there is nothing finer in
the world than joyous laughter and happy eyes of the child”, – the
statement says.</div>
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In <a href="http://adoptionua.com/ukraine-adoption/">Ukraine adoption</a>
every year increases the number of people who want to adopt a child in
Ukraine. Only in 2009 there were adopted more than 2 thousand children
in Ukraine.</div>
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Yanukovych expressed gratitude to every Ukrainian family who have adopted a Ukrainian child.</div>
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“Words of respect to those who were not afraid of difficulties and
today is raising several adopted children, even sick Ukrainian children.
Grateful also for foster parents in Ukraine, my gradytude goes to
caregivers of children’s homes of family type, doctors, teachers, social
workers, anyone and everyone who helps children find their family,
helps Ukraine adoptions, who gives support and encouragement to both
adoptive children and adoptive families, who gives them faith and hope
for a better future”, – said in the appeal.</div>
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