Archivo etiqueta «Adopción»
Por Blanca Gómez Bengoechea, investigadora del Instituto Universitario de la Familia. Universidad Pontifica Comillas de Madrid (EL MUNDO, 18/02/11):
Casi 35.000 niños viven en centros de protección de menores en España, donde pasan años cruciales de sus vidas esperando que se tome una decisión sobre su futuro. En los últimos años, ante el descenso de las adopciones internacionales, las miradas han vuelto hacia estos niños de nadie. Hace un par de meses, la Comisión especial del Senado destinada a reflexionar sobre este tema hizo públicas sus recomendaciones. Por su parte, la ministra Pajín manifestó la intención del Gobierno … Seguir leyendo
By Darshak Sanghavi, the chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts medical school and Slate’s health-care columnist and a contributing editor at Parents (THE WASHINGTON POST, 25/04/10):
“I no longer wish to parent this child.”
When 7-year-old Justin Hansen, whose name used to be Artyom Savelyev, was sent back to his native Russia this month with that note from his American adoptive mother, much of the ensuing criticism focused on the U.S. side of the matter. Some said that Justin’s adoptive parents were not equipped to care for an allegedly disturbed and violent child and that they … Seguir leyendo
Por Pascual Ortuño Muñoz, Director General de Dret i Entitats Jurídiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya (EL PERIÓDICO, 16/11/08):
Las instituciones jurídicas van conformándose a lo largo de la historia, y se adaptan a la realidad social en la que las normas deben operar. La función de la norma jurídica es la de regular las relaciones sociales que por su relevancia lo necesitan, y también la de expresar el ideal del deber ser, según la conciencia social, el ethos al que se refería ya Aristóteles.
En materia de adopción, las coyunturas sociales han marcado siempre esta institución de manera … Seguir leyendo
Por Ignasi Carreras, director del Instituto de Innovación Social de Esade (EL PAÍS, 22/11/07):
La lamentable actuación de la organización El Arca de Zoé en Chad puede provocar un incremento de las restricciones por parte de algunos países a los procesos de adopción internacional.
Seguramente, la finalidad del iluminado fundador de esta organización francesa, Eric Breteau, y sus colegas que participaron en la rocambolesca misión para “salvar vidas de niños desamparados” no pretendía que los 103 niños fueran adoptados en el país galo. Todo apunta a que sus métodos, absolutamente contrarios a los de cualquier ONG humanitaria, iban más … Seguir leyendo
Por Jesús López-Medel, diputado del PP por Madrid (EL PERIÓDICO, 18/11/07):
Guatemala. Julio del 2000. Tres años antes se habían suscrito los acuerdos de paz. Acababa así una guerra civil en la que, junto a la guerrilla y el Ejército, fuerzas paramilitares cometieron un brutal genocidio de casi 300.000 mayas. Para trasmitir las ventajas de la participación política mediante los cauces democráticos, y no con la utilización de la violencia, acudí allí para estar con los dirigentes del Frente Revolucionario que poco antes eran, evidentemente, proscritos e ilegales.
Fue una experiencia política extraordinaria. Aún más, humana. Convivir con ellos … Seguir leyendo
Por Rosa María Pereda, periodista y escritora (EL PAÍS, 14/02/07):
Cuando yo era pequeña, las niñas jugábamos a un juego. Se enfrentaban literalmente una niña, la madre sin hijas, y otra, con familia numerosa, y en una danza simple y cruel, a base de salmodia y elección, la madre sin hijas iba adoptando a las niñas excesivas del continente de enfrente, según sus preferencias. Era un juego demográfico y aleccionador, que ponía jerarquías entre todas nosotras. Primero las madres, líderes naturales. Después, las hijas más favorecidas por el deseo. Y luego las últimas, que nunca irían a buscar las … Seguir leyendo
By William Rees-Mogg (THE TIMES, 29/01/07):
The issue of the Roman Catholic adoption agencies, and their refusal to arrange adoptions for same-sex partnerships, I find altogether fascinating. It involves fundamental questions of liberty, of freedom of religion, of European law and of political philosophy. In our collapsing political society it may prove to be only one week’s wonder, but it is important to think it through.
The dispute all starts with a European regulation — with one of those European incursions into British sovereignty that hardly one British person in a thousand was aware of at the time it happened. … Seguir leyendo
By Minette Marrin (THE TIMES, 28/01/07):
Let a hundred flowers bloom, Chairman Mao once said to China’s repressed intellectuals, inviting diverse ideas. Sure enough, when the intellectuals obliged, Mao ruthlessly mowed them all down. Our rulers do not believe in diversity either, although they are constantly nagging us to join them in celebrating it. What they really believe in, on the contrary, is orthodoxy and they are increasingly prepared to enforce it. That is the alarming lesson of the uproar about Catholic charities and gay adoption.
For our orthodox masters in parliament and in the public services it is not … Seguir leyendo
By Mary Ann Sieghart (THE TIMES, 26/01/07):
The issue of gay adoption seems to be peculiarly toxic in British politics. First it did for Iain Duncan Smith, marking the beginning of his demise as Conservative leader. Now it looks like doing the same for Tony Blair.
“Going, going, gone”, would be a good description of the Prime Minister’s authority. The atmosphere has changed markedly since Christmas. Mr Blair has taken to saying to colleagues “Well, I won’t be around for that”, when they discuss policy together. In return, they have ceased to defer to him.
Several ministers would have voted … Seguir leyendo
By Beth Nonte Russell, the author of the forthcoming “Forever Lily: An Unexpected Mother’s Journey to Adoption in China” and the co-founder of the Golden Phoenix Foundation (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/01/07):
ACCORDING to a State Department report released this week, American citizens adopted 6,493 children from China in 2006, a decline of 18 percent from the previous year’s total of 7,906. And yet, just over a month ago, this newspaper reported that China had prepared strict new criteria for foreign adoption applications because the country claimed it lacked “available” babies to meet the “spike” in demand.
China has … Seguir leyendo
By David Nicholson, a Washington writer (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/12/06):
Whenever I see a white couple with an Asian or Hispanic child, I can’t help wondering whether adoption — like the personal ads — is one of the last areas of American life where naked expressions of racial preference are acceptable.
I know that sentiment seems ungenerous. Most of the children I see would have grown up in dire circumstances if they hadn’t been adopted, and many will find me mean-spirited for gainsaying any child a chance at a happy and successful life.
All the same, I can’t understand … Seguir leyendo
By Minette Marrin (THE TIMES, 03/12/06):
Jonathan Swift made a famous Modest Proposal in 1729 that the babies of the Irish poor should be eaten to prevent them growing up to a poverty-stricken life of crime. It was, of course, satirical. But nearly 300 years later I would like to make a modest proposal about babies that is almost as shocking, yet not at all satirical.
I’ve come reluctantly to think, especially after the senseless killing of Tom ap Rhys Pryce, that perhaps some babies, in the public interest and to prevent them growing up to a life of violence, … Seguir leyendo
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a novelist, is the author of “Half of a Yellow Sun” (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/11/06):
Growing up in Nsukka, a small university town in eastern Nigeria, I often had malaria. It was so commonplace that when you went to the medical center, a nurse would say, “Malaria has come again, hasn’t it?” Because I know how easily treatable malaria is, I was surprised to learn that thousands of people die from it each year. People like the relatives of David Banda, Madonna’s adopted son from Malawi.
But of course most American media do not say … Seguir leyendo
By Eugene Robinson (THE WASHINGTON POST, 20/10/06):
It would be easy to ridicule Madonna for her “I’ll take that one over there” adoption of a baby from an orphanage in Malawi. But it would be wrong.
No, really, it would be wrong.
Granted, the Material Girl makes it hard to take her side. For those who haven’t been following the story, Madonna has ostentatiously joined the rush of Beautiful People to the villages and shantytowns of Africa, where there is a wealth of poverty and suffering to bemoan. She picked Malawi, a small, impoverished, AIDS-stricken nation in southern Africa and … Seguir leyendo
By Alice Miles (THE TIMES, 18/10/06):
ONE IN EVERY 13 children in the developing world today is an orphan, says Unicef. That is 143 million orphans in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Ethiopia alone has five million, who cost more than is spent each year on health or education. And it isn’t just a black and brown issue: more than a million children in Europe and Central Asia live in residential institutions. Including thousands in Britain.
And among all these millions of children is one, David Banda, whom Madonna is seeking to adopt. (Unicef defines orphans in … Seguir leyendo