The country with the most USA adoptions is China with 80,162 children. The age and gender is noted in the illustrated facts.
The total children adopted in the USA from foreign countries is 271,831.
During this period 1130 Mexican children were adopted. South of Mexico is Guatemala where many children come from for American adoptions, a total of 29,806. Then comes Columbia with 4558 adopted children. The least is Argentina which saw two of their children adopted and Uruguay only let one of their children leave their homeland for adoption in the USA.
In the Caribbean Sea the least is Cuba with only one and the most is Haiti with 4294 children.
I am sure within those statistics are people that were married and adopted their spouses child(ren) and also children that may have come to live with grandparents.
With 271831 adoptions over 18 years, that is an average of 15,101.72 children. Since children only come in one body and not fractions of one the average is 15,102 children per year.
There are rules:
HAGUE CONVENTION ON PROTECTION OF CHILDREN AND CO-OPERATION
IN RESPECT OF INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
www.hcch.net
The Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) is an international agreement to establish safeguards to ensure that intercountry adoptions take place in the best interests of the child. The Convention entered into force for the United States in April 2008. The Hague Adoption Convention applies to adoptions between the United States and the other countries that have joined it. In this section, we provide the keys to understanding how to proceed with a Hague Convention Adoption.
Donald Trump's Border Guards, National Guard and any civilian agency involved in forced removal of children from their natural parents are braking international law. There is absolutely no permission of any country to remove children forcibly from their natural parents. That is a form of genocide.
Anyone that is a member of any armed forces, including the Border Patrol and National Guard PARTICIPATING in the forcible removal of ANY child from their parents is breaking the law and can be court marshaled and/or remanded to the Hague for disposition of their crimes.
Article II of the Genocide Convention (click here) contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:
1. A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and
2.A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:
- Killing members of the group.
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
From the Joint Chiefs to the Border Patrol and National Guard and civilian agencies; are to cease and desist forcible removal of any child anywhere in the world or continue to be exposed to violations of international law. This is an INDIVIDUAL decision to participate and each and everyone involved in forcibly removing children from their parents are subject to international standards and prosecution.
I find it interesting that Russia is second only to China in presenting children for adoption during this period with 46,113 children. I assume all these adopted children have dual citizenship regardless of the American adoption.
According to RUSSIAN law, (click here) any child adopted from Russia is a citizen of Russia, regardless of any other citizenship he or she may have obtained. As a RUSSIAN citizen, he/she must travel to Russia on a Russian passport, per RUSSIAN law.
When you apply for a visa to travel to Russia, the consulate is *supposed* to advise the parents that the child must travel on their Russian passport and, of course, no visa is needed. There have been many people who have been able to obtain a visa for their Russian adopted children's US passport and have experienced no problems doing this, but, please bear in mind that RUSSIAN law requires the Russian passport. When travelling TO the United States, US LAW requires all US citizens to travel on their US passport.
This is only an issue when travelling to Russia with our kids. If you're not going to Russia, use the US passport. When/if your kids rescind their Russian citizenship, then they will be able to travel to Russia on their US passport, but they will also need *proof* from the Russian consulate that their Russian citizenship was rescinded.
Again, all this is PER RUSSIAN LAW. How it is actually enforced or applied will depend on the mood of the consulate officer or customs official. :)
In order to understand genocide and define it, there needs to be written records and facts. This is a long held understanding and REQUIRES no reinterpretation.
...Part of the difficulty of adoption (click here) and the reason why there is so much paperwork is that it has to be shown that the child to be adopted is in fact an orphan. It is an unfortunate and grim fact that without these procedures in place some people in developing countries might steal children simply to adopt them out to more well-off Americans for profit. This is one of the things that the Hague Convention is specifically concerned with preventing....
Pioneers of Genocide Studies (click here)
Editors: Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs
...Among the contributors (click here) are experts in the Armenian, Bosnian, and Cambodian genocides, as well as the Holocaust against the Jewish people. The contributors are Rouben Adalian, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Israel W. Charney, Vahakn Dadrian, Helen Fein, Barbara Harff, David Hawk, Herbert Hirsch, Irving Louis Horowitz, Richard Hovannisian, Henry Huttenbach, Leo Kuper, Raphael Lemkin, James E. Mace, Eric Markusen, Robert Melson, R.J. Rummel, Roger W. Smith, Gregory H. Stanton, Ervin Staub, Colin Tatz, Yves Ternan, and the co-editors. The work represents a high watermark in the reflections and self-reflections on the comparative study of genocide.
IN RESPECT OF INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
www.hcch.net
The Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Inter-Country Adoption (Hague Adoption Convention) is an international agreement to establish safeguards to ensure that intercountry adoptions take place in the best interests of the child. The Convention entered into force for the United States in April 2008. The Hague Adoption Convention applies to adoptions between the United States and the other countries that have joined it. In this section, we provide the keys to understanding how to proceed with a Hague Convention Adoption.
Donald Trump's Border Guards, National Guard and any civilian agency involved in forced removal of children from their natural parents are braking international law. There is absolutely no permission of any country to remove children forcibly from their natural parents. That is a form of genocide.
Anyone that is a member of any armed forces, including the Border Patrol and National Guard PARTICIPATING in the forcible removal of ANY child from their parents is breaking the law and can be court marshaled and/or remanded to the Hague for disposition of their crimes.
Article II of the Genocide Convention (click here) contains a narrow definition of the crime of genocide, which includes two main elements:
1. A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and
2.A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:
- Killing members of the group.
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
From the Joint Chiefs to the Border Patrol and National Guard and civilian agencies; are to cease and desist forcible removal of any child anywhere in the world or continue to be exposed to violations of international law. This is an INDIVIDUAL decision to participate and each and everyone involved in forcibly removing children from their parents are subject to international standards and prosecution.
I find it interesting that Russia is second only to China in presenting children for adoption during this period with 46,113 children. I assume all these adopted children have dual citizenship regardless of the American adoption.
According to RUSSIAN law, (click here) any child adopted from Russia is a citizen of Russia, regardless of any other citizenship he or she may have obtained. As a RUSSIAN citizen, he/she must travel to Russia on a Russian passport, per RUSSIAN law.
In order to understand genocide and define it, there needs to be written records and facts. This is a long held understanding and REQUIRES no reinterpretation.
...Part of the difficulty of adoption (click here) and the reason why there is so much paperwork is that it has to be shown that the child to be adopted is in fact an orphan. It is an unfortunate and grim fact that without these procedures in place some people in developing countries might steal children simply to adopt them out to more well-off Americans for profit. This is one of the things that the Hague Convention is specifically concerned with preventing....
...People often wonder why adopt internationally at all? There are many different answers to that question. Some people say that it is easier to do than to adopt within the United States, and while this may be true in some instances, it is certainly not the case in all. Some make the argument that a person adopted from a developing country and raised in the United States will live a better life, but this point is easily argued against. Who's to say that they will be any more or less happy depending upon location? Whether or not they have parents to care for them is probably of greater concern. Some people have very personal experiences abroad and forge close attachments to the people in that country and want to help their residents. Probably one of the more popular reasons is that it is practically impossible for the birth parents to re-unite with the child, something that many adoptive parents consider a plus. Most of the time the birth parents have somehow died, so that in the future there is no risk of a dramatic, confounding or damaging re-emergence....
The children being forcibly removed from their parents at the USA southern border are NOT orphans. These children are citizens of their birth country. They are in legal limbo and I suggest their parents are being intimidated to relinquish any custody if that is taking place and if these children are not returned. The entire idea of destroying a natural family is extremely offensive to nature and the rule of law.
Who is an Orphan? (click here)
Under U.S. immigration law, an orphan is a foreign-born child who:
- does not have any parents because of the death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents
OR
-has a sole or surviving parent who is unable to care for the child, consistent with the local standards of the foreign sending country, and who has, in writing, irrevocably released the child for emigration and adoption
It is about White Supremacy as well: The children being forcibly removed from their parents at the USA southern border are NOT orphans. These children are citizens of their birth country. They are in legal limbo and I suggest their parents are being intimidated to relinquish any custody if that is taking place and if these children are not returned. The entire idea of destroying a natural family is extremely offensive to nature and the rule of law.
Who is an Orphan? (click here)
Under U.S. immigration law, an orphan is a foreign-born child who:
- does not have any parents because of the death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents
OR
-has a sole or surviving parent who is unable to care for the child, consistent with the local standards of the foreign sending country, and who has, in writing, irrevocably released the child for emigration and adoption
Pioneers of Genocide Studies (click here)
Editors: Samuel Totten and Steven Leonard Jacobs
...Among the contributors (click here) are experts in the Armenian, Bosnian, and Cambodian genocides, as well as the Holocaust against the Jewish people. The contributors are Rouben Adalian, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Israel W. Charney, Vahakn Dadrian, Helen Fein, Barbara Harff, David Hawk, Herbert Hirsch, Irving Louis Horowitz, Richard Hovannisian, Henry Huttenbach, Leo Kuper, Raphael Lemkin, James E. Mace, Eric Markusen, Robert Melson, R.J. Rummel, Roger W. Smith, Gregory H. Stanton, Ervin Staub, Colin Tatz, Yves Ternan, and the co-editors. The work represents a high watermark in the reflections and self-reflections on the comparative study of genocide.
