The United Nations Rights of the Child, an international treaty, deems that every child has the right to a name, nationality, family. But where adoption is concerned, that treaty falls apart. No connections are made between that and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption which requires a “new” birth certificate made in the child’s new adoptive name and the adoptive parents’ names replace the names of the actual parents of birth. This fraudulent name-swapping alerts material and provable facts.

If a child’s extended family cannot be found and the government of the homeland does not support kinship care or guardainship, then perhaps adoption out of the country is the only solution. The child suffers loss of self. And, adopting a foreign-born child into the USA does not give that child all the civil rights of a natural-born citizen. While improving that child’s standard of living for the price of birth identity, that child gains USA citizenship minus the right that every natural-born American citizen has: to become President. So, we must take a look at what it truly means to be adopted and become a Naturalized American citizen, in addition to re-examining international adoption itself, and, working to improve citizen rights in the homeland. These are just my quesses…

Thanks for stopping by, Mei Ling.