It’s Christmas time, a time of joy, celebration and family. But in a country with tens of thousands of forgotten children in institutional care, what do an 11-year-old, abandoned...
Adoption
Are intercountry adoptions in children’s best interests?
February 2021 was an awful month for intercountry adoptions. First, the Netherlands suspended them, then social development declared that children are better off in institutional...
Adoption: Landmark court ruling gives hope to KZN’s vulnerable children
In a country where adoption numbers are low and declining, KwaZulu-Natal, the province with the largest number of orphans, is also the one with the fewest adoptions. In 2016,...
Adoptions: Proposed new law could do irreparable harm to SA’s most vulnerable
November was World Adoption Month. It was also the first anniversary of the gazetting of the Children’s Amendment Bill which may end adoptions in SA. What started as a debate...
Talk Africa: Foreign Adoption of African Children
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Adoption-related amendments to the Children’s Act: The arguments and the elephants in the room
In the short time since the media drew national attention to the proposed amendments to the Children’s Act and their impact on adoptions, the government has proffered numerous...
Access to adoptions will decline if Children’s Act amendments are passed
As 2018 drew to a close, the war of attrition over South African adoption took an ugly turn. In an unambiguous act of aggression, the government added a last-minute amendment to...
SEVEN TOP TIPS FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS PART 2
In this two-part article, the focus is on how we as adoptive parents, can best parent our adoptees. Part 1 contained tips 1-4. This article explores the last three. 5. Your...
SEVEN TOP TIPS FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS PART 1
As adoptive parents, we should constantly be learning how to parent our adoptees better, which led me to documenting these seven top tips for adoptive parents, along with some...
The worldwide war on adoption
In 2005, there were almost 46,000 inter-country adoptions globally. But just 10 years later, international adoptions had *dropped 72% to 12,000 in total. Behind this decline are...
Adoptions in KwaZulu-Natal: Control, collateral damage and unintended consequences
After 18 months of agonising stalemate in KwaZulu Natal adoptions, two vulnerable children, a questionable social development decision and a landmark High Court ruling may have...
Sounding the death knell for adoption?
The 2016 World Adoption Day celebrations are proving muted, overshadowed by the election soap opera in America, and here at home by the crushing disclosure that there were only...
Op-Ed: The great power struggle over adoption
The government says its planned amendment to the Children's Act will simplify the complicated and lengthy adoption process in South Africa. But the part of the process it is...
HOW TO ADOPT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Do you want to adopt in South Africa? Here is how to do it. Are you thinking about adopting a child in South Africa but aren’t sure where to begin? If so, this step...
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