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Wed 05 May 2009Regulating adoption
IN RECENT days the anguish of prospective adoptive parents whose hoped-for adoptions have been stalled by the ending of a bilateral agreement between Ireland and Vietnam has been graphically described in these pages. The devotion of these parents to their hoped-for children and the difficulties they are experiencing are beyond doubt.
The existing adoption agreement with Vietnam, in existence for just under five years, lapsed at the beginning of this month leaving families in the middle of the process in a state of suspension. But this should not lead to a hasty or ill-considered renewal of the agreement which is currently under renegotiation.
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