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Nightlight is a licensed non-profit [1] Hague accredited [2] adoption agency that provides pro-life counseling to pregnant women and adoption services to families. They coordinate adoptions both in the United States and internationally. They also facilitate adoption of frozen embryos and provide humanitarian assistance to children in orphanages ...
The agency faced criticism in 2014 when a 3-year-old, Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan, was murdered by his adoptive father, Brian O'Callaghan. Before the adoption, Hyunsu's foster mother had requested to adopt him, but Holt did not allow it. Furthermore, his adoptive father had concealed his PTSD during the screening process.
Adoption policies for each country vary widely. Information such as the age of the adoptive parents, financial status, educational level, marital status and history, number of dependent children in the house, sexual orientation, weight, psychological health, and ancestry are used by countries to determine what parents are eligible to adopt from that country.
^Note 5:The Ghana Embassy in the Czech Republic has concurrent accreditation to the Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and North Macedonia. [32] ^Note 6:The Ghana Embassy in Egypt is accredited to Cyprus. [33] ^Note 7:The Ghana Embassy in Saudi Arabia is also covers United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Jordan, Yemen, and Syria. [34]
The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (or Hague Adoption Convention) is an international convention dealing with international adoption, child laundering, and child trafficking in an effort to protect those involved from the corruption, abuses, and exploitation which sometimes accompanies international adoption. [1]
Child laundering is a tactic used in illegal or fraudulent international adoptions.It may involve child trafficking and child acquisition through payment, deceit or force. . The children may then be held in sham orphanages while formal adoption processes are used to send them to adoptive parents in another count
Joint Council on International Children's Services, founded in 1976, [2] was a nonprofit child advocacy organization based in Alexandria, Virginia. [3] The organization "work[ed] to end the suffering of children who live every day without the protection and love of a strong permanent and safe family.
Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children is a New York-based licensed and Hague-accredited [1] non-profit [2] providing adoption services, which includes the continuum of counseling and support services to members of the adoption triad: birth parents, adoptive families, and adoptees.