The National Centers For Adoption and "The Evangelical Adoption Crusade".
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) mentioned along with Laura Silsby.
Why would the Federal Reserve, Northrup Grumman and the Airline industry be involved with international adoptions?
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Heidi Bruegel Cox, J.D.
Chairman
General Counsel, Gladney Center for Adoption
Wayne W. Sharp, Ph.D.
Immediate Past Chair
Lisa Sinclair
Vice Chair
Vice President of Legal Affairs and Deputy General Counsel, Northeastern University
Andrea T. Vavonese
Vice Chair
Division Counsel, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Fawn Imboden
Secretary
Vice President/Chief Development Officer, America’s Christian Credit Union
Phillip Littleton
Treasurer
President and CEO, Holt International Children's Services
Jane Castanias
Strategic Plan Coordinator
Kyle Clark
Vice President Finance and Administration, Florida State University
Joseph Firschein
Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
Dana Johnson, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Divisions of Neonatology and Global Pediatrics, University of Minnesota
Sheree Jones
IBM, Client Unit Executive, U.S. Federal Healthcare
Stacey J. Reynolds
Principal Partner, SJR Associates
William P. Rosen, Esq.
Attorney, American Academy of Adoption Attorneys
Founder, La Vida International
Beth Nonte Russell
Founder, GoodTrueBeautiful, Inc.
Rebecca Spicer
Senior Vice President of Communications, Airlines for America
Pamela Stevenson
Owner, Top Drawer Relocations
Steven A. Sunday
President and CEO, Forever Bound Adoption
Cori Taylor
Executive Director, New Beginnings Adoption Agency
Mike Thorne
Managing Partner and Founder, Ask Inside, LLC
Kate Trambitskaya
CEO, Spence-Chapin Services to Families & Children
Lorna Zimmerman
Adoption and Single Expectant Parent Specialist, LDS Family Services
In 2009 and 2010, investigations by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and CBS News found evidence that Christian World Adoption—a US agency whose slogan is “God is in control of our agency and your adoption”—had recruited and allegedly even bought children from intact families, some of whom didn’t understand the permanency of adoption. (CWA claimed that these cases were misunderstandings and charged that it was being persecuted for its Christian beliefs.) In January the State Department hosted a conference call to discuss ethical difficulties surrounding Ethiopia’s adoption program. Just weeks later came the announcement that the license for '"Minnesota-based Christian agency Better Future Adoption Services'" had been revoked by the Ethiopian government over
'"accusations of child trafficking'". And in March, Ethiopia’s government announced it was cutting the rate of new adoptions by 90 percent.
Just after the Haiti earthquake, the Christian Alliance for Orphans advertised that its sixth-annual summit would produce a “long-term response” for Haiti’s orphans. By late April 2010, when nearly 1,200 Christians gathered for the summit at a '"megachurch outside Minneapolis'", organizers had to contend with the shadow Silsby had cast. Even Moore worried that the scandal would “give a black eye to the orphan-care movement.”
“We’re killing ourselves with these ethical lapses,” says '"Chuck Johnson, president of the secular adoption lobby group the National Council for Adoption (NCFA).'" “I think Christians are the worst at this sometimes, about the ends justifying the means. ‘I will do anything to save this one child’s life’; ‘'"I will falsify a visa application if I have to.'"’”
In early 2010, Johnson told me, NCFA held an online ethics seminar that drew roughly twenty-five representatives from religious and secular adoption agencies. As part of the webinar, NCFA took a blind poll of participants’ responses to various ethical situations. Either through ignorance or a willingness to bend the rules, 20–30 percent of agency '"representatives gave answers that were tantamount to committing visa fraud or other serious violations'".
“In the last few years, a bunch of top placing agencies in the US met together kind of clandestinely,” recalls Luwis. “To me it was a ‘saving our rear’ meeting. Landrieu was scheduled to address the Christian Alliance summit but was waylaid by the BP oil spill. In her place spoke fellow Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, who was part of the first senatorial delegation to Haiti. She urged President René Préval to revise the country’s adoption and parental rights policies. In a September letter to the State Department, she interceded for US families whose pending adoptions from Nepal were halted after indications that the country’s newly reopened program was again processing trafficked children.
Moar:
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/evangelical-adoption-crusade/
https://www.adoptioncouncil.org/