14 Things to Know About Adopting from Haiti in 2018

The process won't be easy, but the end result will be worth it!

Rebecca Tillou February 20, 2018

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Adoption rules, laws, and regulations are always being altered among countries. So what’s the deal with adopting from Haiti in 2018? Here’s a quick look:

BASIC FACTS:

If you decide to adopt from Haiti, you can pick the gender of the children you adopt.

One adoptive parent has to be a United States Citizen.

An adoptive parent must be at least 21 years older than the child.

Single parents can adopt, but must be between the ages of 35 and 49 years old.

Those who are married can adopt in Haiti if they are between the ages of 30 and 49 years old and have been married at least 5 years. Now, couples who have been married for less than 5 years, but have been living together for at least 5 years, may be able to adopt. A certificate is needed from authorities to prove cohabitation for 5 years.

Those with a criminal history are NOT ELIGIBLE to adopt.

The process for adoption in Haiti from start to finish is about 24 – 30 months. Now, this does not mean you wait that long for your prospective child or children. The adoption agency you are working with will match you with your child early on in the process, and throughout the remaining many months you will be able to visit your child or children and bond with them.

AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS:

Complete some pre-adoption training, though requirements will vary from agency to agency.

Start your Dossier (collection of documents). Your agency will help you with this paperwork.

Once your Dossier is completed and approved by the agency or avenue you use to adopt, a child/children will be chosen for you.

You will have a couple of weeks to decide if you want to make the child/children part of your forever family. If you decide to move forward, you will travel to Haiti, bond with your child/children, then go sign paperwork at the US Embassy.

The waiting begins: The Approval for Final Adoption begins and can take months. Your agency will provide you with photos and updates on your child/children.

If you are approved, you will make plans to go back to Haiti and pick up your children. You may be to Haiti a couple more times to bond if you so choose.

The process may be long, but the end result will be worth it!

Sources

www. allgodschildren.org

http://childrenofallnations.com/

https://www.blueknot.org.au/Portals/2/brochure_ritualabuse_2006.pdf

Common Themes in Ritual AbuseThese themes have been drawn from the personal experiences of the authors, as well asclinical studies (Hudson 1991; Leavitt 1994), case histories and the testimony of clinicians,(O'Driscoll 1994; Sinason and Svensson 1994; Lorena and Levy 1998; Noblitt and Perskin2000), surveys (Driscoll and Wright 1991; Smith 1993)and court cases (Hubert 1989;Humphries 1991; Gamino and Ward 1992; Soloway 1992; People v. Daryl T. Ball 1998; SantaRose Press Democrat 1998; Towers 1998; Janczewski 2003; Oberhardt and Keim 2004).Survivors of ritual abuse and sexual abuse are advised that this list is extremely disturbing andshould only be read with a support person present.•Violent rituals: Initiations, mock-marriages, mock-funerals, fake surgery, ritualised rape,ritualised torture.•Torture: Sexual assault, abduction, use of drugs, pills and injections, forced to ingest filth,tied up, starvation, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, use of snakes or insects, suffocation,burned, hypnosis, use of needles, hanging, spinning.•Organised sexual exploitation: Victims prostituted, used in pornography, sex with adults,group sex, sex with animals, other children and corpses.•Props and symbols: Blood, knives, altars, circles, animal parts, human parts, fire, corpses,ropes, pentagrams, urine, faeces, graves, torches, bones, coffins, insects, animal horns,razor blades.•Extreme fetishes and paraphilias:Sadomasochistic paraphernalia, paedophilia, sadism,torture, coprophagia, bestiality, role-playing, slavery, domination, ritualism.•‘Supernatural’ beliefs:Belief in omniscience of perpetrator group, belief that perpetratorshave ‘magical’ powers, belief that perpetrators can monitor thoughts of victims, performanceof ritualised rape and ‘sex magick’, ritualisms performed on ‘significant’ dates or events.•Simulations of the death experience: Live burials, near-strangulation, near-drowning,electrocution, torture into unconsciousness, drugging into unconsciousness,encouragement of self-mutilation.•Performance of the death experience:Ritual murder, sacrifice of animals, ritual abortions,necrophilia, necrophagia.•Terrorisation: Threats of harm to self and others, threats of abandonment, stalking via thephone/email/in person, home invasions, pets killed, house vandalised with blood and animalflesh.•Bonding mechanisms: Victims given ‘new’ parents, victims ‘rescued’ by ‘good’ perpetrator,victims forced to perpetrate against other victims, victims told they are ‘evil’ and ‘deserve’the abuse.•Role-playing: Perpetrators wearing robes, masks, horns, costumes, ‘professional’uniforms, victims made to wear robes, victims painted white or red.•Extreme secrecy:Operant conditioning and psychological coercion used to enforce silence of victims, code words used to refer to perpetrators, abuse, places of abuse, drugs used to disorientate victims, blindfolds, capsicum spray in the eyes to blind victims.

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Splitting and Insanity

Perpetrators go to great lengths to orchestrate abusive ordeals that, to the child, appear unreal.They may repeat to victims that the abuse is not taking place, that they are dreaming the abuse, or that the victim is insane. They may use coded words to refer to abuse, abusers and places of abuse, such as ‘Alice in Wonderland’ or ‘the Wizard of Oz’, reinforcing secrecy and the notion that the ritual abuse is taking place in space that is fundamentally different from everyday life. This is a tactic that has been observed in other sexual offenders and paedophile groups (Scully 1990; Guardian 2003).

The end result is a child who lives in two worlds: a public world with predictable rules andc ontinuity, and a private world of pain, terror, and disorder. This furthers a central goal of traffickers and abusers, which is the fragmentation of the consciousness of the exploited child or adult, resulting in their compliance and acceptance of their abuse. It also negatively impact son a child’s ability to disclose their abuse, since the words they associate with the abuse have no significance outside the arbitrary linguistic system fabricated by the perpetrators.