Please Consider........

For those of you who don't know, there are some disheartening things happening in Ethiopia this week regarding intercountry adoption. The government department responsible for approving adoptions and making recommendations for court hearings has decreased their processing from 50 cases a day to only 5 cases per day. The goal is to decrease intercountry adoptions by 90%....While they are trying to insure time to properly investigate cases and stop unethical actions by certain entities working in Ethiopia, the decrease is greatly disproportionate to the issues. A best guess from officials is that this decrease will delay those cases currently registered with the Ethiopian courts by one year. For us, since we are still waiting for a referral, then a court date, the delay will be even longer. Please consider signing this petition which will be presented next week when meetings take place to come to a new agreement regarding how many cases are processed each day. If this decrease continues, children legitimately waiting for families could spend years waiting in institutions and orpanages because of the policy changes and delays. Here is the link for the petition.... http://betheanswerforchildren.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/emergency-campaign-for-ethiopia/