OOC: I understand you've done this for years, but it isn't until now I've realised how annoying and garish having everything in italics is.
Bears Armed wrote:BELIEVING that intercountry adoption can be beneficial to individuals who wish to adopt and to nations experiencing difficulty with their internal rate of adoption,
“I’d turn this round, and stress the potential emphasis to children needing adoption rather than the advantage to people who want to adopt:
Valid point, I'll consider it.
Bears Armed wrote:FRUSTRATED with the reality that member nations each have differing rules and regulations regarding intercountry adoption,
“I’d prefer “Noting”
rather than “Frustrated with”
, as a less IntFed-seeming choice of words here.”,
IntFed uses IntFed language. Shocker. I'm not inclined to change the wording here.
Bears Armed wrote:HOPEFUL that the consolidation of these varied rules and regulations will break down barriers to intercountry adoption,
“I don’t see intercountry adoption as intrinsically a good thing in itself, only as potentially a good thing in that it can provide adoptive parents for some children who might otherwise go lacking in that respect, and would therefore prefer a ‘suitable’ change of wording here as well.”
Given that I do find intercountry adoption a good thing, I don't think changing this clause is going to happen either.
Bears Armed wrote:“What about nations within which adoption matters basically fall under the separate jurisdictions of their various political divisions rather than under that that of the national
government itself, such as — for example, in the event of it re-joining this organisation — Bears Armed proper? Whatever national body already coordinates adoptions between the separate divisions within those nations could serve as your proposed National Adoption Board
for the purposes of sub-clauses ‘i’ and ‘iii’ here, but it would make more sense — and probably be more acceptable constitutionally, too — for it to be those separate divisions’ own agencies that were assigned to fulfil sub-clause ‘ii’ instead…”
It's not my job to consider what would be acceptable constitutionally within your nation. There's 17,000 member states in the World Assembly, if we tried to pass resolutions that was acceptable constitutionally to every one, we'd never get anything done. If this is passed it'd be up to your nation to nominate a National Adoption Board and then assign all aforementioned duties to them. If you NAB has to have offices in the federated sub-divisions, nothing in this resolution stops that from happening.
Bears Armed wrote:"Can we insert a “Strongly encourages member nations to allow intercountry adoption;”
clause next, to help clarify that this point remains a matter for national decision rather than one about hwhich your proposed WA agency could impose a binding rule?”
I wouldn't think this was a point that needed clarification, the text itself was already amended in this regard. I will take the addition of such a clause under advisement.
Bears Armed wrote:“However discriminating on the basis of
species so that children aren’t adopted by people who don’t properly understand their differing psychological and physiological needs, adopted by members of communities that lack appropriately-trained medical personnel, or adopted into populations where they would be the only members of their own species around, would qualify as acceptable under that[/i] “compelling practical purpose”
exemption though, hrright?
“And disallowing adoption on the basis of nationality hwhen the other nationality involved was an ‘enemy’
one within rrrecent history? Also hokay, I presume?”
“Ur’rmm, hwhat about restricting adoptions on the basis of religion, particularly in cases hwhoever gave the children concerned up for adoption on the first paw expressed a firm wish that those children be raised in their own faith? If the nations have to put those children up for intercountry adoption on the first paw then we would definitely want to see that form of discrimination allowed.”
I am not in a position to comment on individual cases that may come before the WAAA, nor am I able, due to text constraints, to go into vivid detail within the resolution on such matters. The list given in the resolution text is only an example. We can tell this because of the "e.g." that comes before it.
However I did add, much to my own chagrin, "compelling practical purpose". All which you've outlined there would seem, to me anyway, to be a compelling practical purpose not to allow that intercountry adoption. Putting a bear with a human, talking bear or not, doesn't seem like an ideal situation to me.
Bears Armed wrote:“Question 1: If a member nation allows any intercountry adoption at all, does that mean (or could WAAA rule) that it must make
every child within its jurisdiction who’s up for adoption available for [/i] intercountry
adoption or (as we would prefer) could it still limit intercountry adoption to those specific cases where — for one reason or another — intra-country
adoption isn’t possible?
Intra-country adoption is not the purview of this draft. This covers intercountry adoption. Intracountry adoption is purely domestic and my delegation has no interest in heavily regulating domestic adoption at this time.
I can't imagine that WAAA would do so, but I will consider adding a clause stipulating that due deference must be given to the child and whether or not they wish to move home.
Bears Armed wrote:“Question two: Wouldn’t the current draft’s combined requirements that any intercountry adoption take place through National Adoption Boards and that all NABs be members of WAAA mean that intercountry adoptions between member nations and non-
members would effectively become illegal, even in cases where they might be in the best interests of the children concerned? Can we find a way to solve this problem, maybeso by allowing intercountry adoption in any case where the recipient nation’s relevant agency has rules for vetting potential parents that meet WAAA standards?
I won't be amending the text in such a way. As I've said previously, limiting the agencies that can legally conduct intercountry adoptions makes it far easier an industry to regulate.
Further, I believe the text continiously makes reference to member nation states. I also will not introduce anything into the draft even hinting at non-member nations' adoption practices. WA resolutions can not affect them.
However, I will look to further emphasising within the resolution text that this applies to intercountry adoptions between WA member states.
Bears Armed wrote:“And finally (at least for now), the other matter: Wouldn’t it be preferable for the subjects of intercountry adoption to be guaranteed what one might term a ‘Right of Return’
, so that once they’re legally adult by the rules of both nations involved — and if those nations don’t automatically allow them duel nationality anyhows — they have a reasonable amount of time during which to choose which of those nations they would prefer to consider their homeland? And, to assist with this, wouldn’t it be nice if the subjects of intercountry adoption were legally guaranteed a reasonable level of instruction in the language and customs of their people of origin as well as in those of their adoptive parents?”
This resolution covers the regulation of the intercountry adoption industry. What you suggest goes beyond the intended scope of this proposal. I am not going to circumvent member nations states citizenship rules in this proposal.