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Adopting could be quicker, cheaper, less hurdled by bureaucracy, legal / safe, and open to more (single people / LGBTQ+) to prevent millions of abandoned / vulnerable children worldwide

By Hicbd
Fri Sep 23 2022 10:30 am

"Yet the country’s adoption bureaucracy is so forbidding that scores of aspiring adoptive parents are left in the cold, and abandoned children left to grow up without parents...He said that orphanages in the Philippines are scarce and poorly staffed; that government agencies frequently demand documents that are impossible to procure; and that even with the necessary paperwork, simple procedures can drag on for months. Many of the children who come into his care remain there for three to four years before they are legally cleared for adoption.

URL:
https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-philippines-orphans-adv-snap-story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/30/india-delhi-speed-adoption-orphans
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/29/garden/adoption-saga-of-rio-s-streets.html
https://mljadoptions.com/blog/unicef-foe-international-adoption-20110308

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