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Better life for some of Haiti’s orphaned children as disaster speeds adoption process.

There’s a glimmer of hope for many of Haiti’s orphans following last week’s devastating earthquake. The earthquake left over one million children without parents but the country already had over 380,000 orphans. This has increased pressure to speed up the adoption process of the existing orphans.

Many of these children already have a legal home and permanent guardianship waiting for them in America, where families have spent years trying to adopt Haitian orphans, to little or no avail. Since the disaster, the US hopes to speed up the adoption process of Haitian children.

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, said they would "not to let red tape stand in the way of those in need." She continued, “we are doing everything possible to locate these children and expedite their arrival into our country."

Other countries such as France and Canada have also fast-tracked the adoption process to allow hundreds of Haitian children access to their countries.

However, many aid agencies and British charities have stated their disagreement to the fast-tracking process, saying more time should be allowed to reunite the children with their families.

Priyanka Kara By Priyanka Kara
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Bella B
At least something good is coming out of this horrible disaster! but I do agree that there should be thorough searches for the children's real families before sending them off to adoptive families.
theoldwomanwholivesinashoe

You have to be sure they really are orphans.With the country in so much chaos,how could you be sure enough yet.Yes these children need taking care of but how would an ordinary Haitian stand a chance of getting their child back were they wrong.Also if you take a large part of the countries population out of the country,even with the best intentions and reasons don't you leave a gap in that population in years to come?

However Haiti probably has no facilities to take care of large numbers of orphaned children,and they do need taking care of.

Seems America has its feet well and truly under the table in Haiti,they were very very quick in seeing to that.Would be an awful thought that anyone might benefit from such a tragedy,or is that just cynical?

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