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 How Extreme Poverty Separates Parents and ChildrenSource: ATD A painful lesson noted by low-income parents from New Orleans was that many of their teenage children were separated from them in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, depriving these teens prematurely of much needed support. In Haiti, for many years now, families living in the most extreme situations of poverty have often entrusted their children for short or long periods to other families or to institutions. Their hope is that their children will be better fed by others, and may have a chance at schooling that they do not have at home. The parents do everything they can to maintain links with their children, and to bring them home when times are better. To their shock however, over the years some of their children have been put up for foreign adoption without their notice. The parents themselves have sometimes been threatened or intimidated into not opposing these adoptions. As in many other countries, among the many needed and dedicated orphanages and adoption agencies, there are also some that do more harm than good. Read more here |