Jarish Inyo wrote:It's a very light proposal with very limited effects on national sovereignty. I couldn't imagine why there'd be such opposition.
It doesn't have limited effects on national sovereignty. This proposal doesn't protect children as the author claims. The author refuses to give a logical and reasonable reason why nations can not self regulate their international adoptions policies without an international agency.
I've not seen one good argument in this thread that makes this proposal good for anything but taking away a nations right to make their own regulations for foreigners to adopt. All I have seen is this is a way to streamline the adoption process for foreigners to adopt. The fact that the author is frustrated that each nation has its own regulations and requirements for adoption does not make this a good proposal or an international concern.
The Ambassador cannot speak to how I do or not feel. My authorship history has proven that I am primarily concerned with the protection of the vulnerable in society, particularly children.
Individual nations cannot self-regulate an international industry. Oversight is essential when it comes to the transferring of children between nations and there are nations out there that will sell children to the highest bidder, or perhaps even worse. Protecting children is a priority of mine, but so is ensuring that those who cannot have a family naturally, or for whatever legitimate reason, are able to.
I must register my concern also with the tone the word "foreigner" is being thrown around in. The Ambassador evidently doesn't not support those not resident in or citizens of his country being able to adopt children from his nation. Luckily for the Ambassador, however, this proposal does not force his nation to allow intercountry adoptions.
The World Assembly Adoption Authority will be a competent and well-managed body who will ensure the safety of children, a rigorous adoption process, and the integrity of the values in intercountry adoption.
Finally that the Ambassador cannot see how intercountry adoption is not an international priority is telling.