News: Adoption

Updated: Apr 18/10

News & events listed on the following websites:
• Adoption Council of Canada
• Family Helper

STORIES IN THE NEWS
Canada
• Denied over DNA (May 9/09. National Post)
• Opening adoption records in Ontario prompts few requests for secrecy  (Globe & Mail. May. 26/09)
• Ontario: Expert Panel Releases Report on Infertility & Adoption (Aug 26/09. Press Release)
• Ontario: Raising Expectations: Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Infertility & Adoption
  (Aug 26/09)
• Parents in waiting - With international adoption becoming harder, Canadians are facing the demand for patience, and an open mind, in the quest to build their families (Sept 2009. Today's Parent)
• Ontario Agencies to face stiffer monitoring (Oct 1, 2009. National Post)
• Baby wanted - My YouTube adoption. Hopeful couples are giving virtual home tours and flipping pancakes in three-minute video pitches to expectant moms (Oct 4/09. Globe & Mail)
• Quebec proposes changes to adoption laws. Legislation would allow some children to maintain ties to biological family; open adoption also on the table (Oct 7/09. Globe & Mail)
• Restart of bankrupt 'Imagine Adoption' agency gives new hope to 350 Canadian families (Oct 16/09. Family Helper)
• Ontario: Adoptees can find mom, but not dad. Searches are stymied by blacked-out records documenting the birth of 'illegitimate' children (Dec 10/09. Toronto Star)
• [Toronto mayorality candidate] Smitherman ‘intensely thrilled' to be approved for adoption (Feb 15/10. Globe & Mail)
• In Some Adoptions, Love Doesn’t Conquer All (Apr 16/10. New York Times)
• 'I did not love my adopted child' (Apr 14/10. National Post)