Thank you sak9645 for your long answer.
I really have to take English lessons because more I write here, more people thinks I’m a kind of dangerous immoral law breaker. So let me be more clear about my thoughts:
1) Imagine you decide to live in Cambodia. Nothing wrong with that.
2) After a few months, you decide to adopt an orphan, a real orphan in an orphanage, and you do it legally with the Cambodian laws. And there is no tricks as back in your country you have already all your papers done to be adoptive parents (in France it’s called an “agreement” and it takes 9 months of interviews with social services and psychiatrists). So again at this point all you have done is ethical and respecting the law of the country of the child which is the country where you live, Cambodia.
So my question is: Is this adoption unethical? Against the laws?
The funny stuff: After a few years, well, why not after a few months, you decide to move back in France, or why not move in an other country in Africa or South America or even USA (Actually I’m not living in France but in Australia, so it’s not just like it can’t happens).
How can your adoptive child not be considered as your child ?
It’s a real question; I don’t think I found a correct answer yet.
And about
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I know that there was a case a while back, in which a French organization came under intense scrutiny because of the way it brought some African children to France for adoption. There were allegations that the children were not legally free for adoption”
You are talking about l’Arche de Zoe.
The people of Arche de Zoe tried to save orphans from Darfur. They were caught by the Tchadian army and convicted to 8 years of slave labor and 5 millions $US penalties in a parody of justice. Arche de Zoe was media bashed in France also. It was a political matter, and all the 103 children were sent back in their family by Tchad and/or Unicef in Darfur.
The thing is, the 103 children were orphans and their tutor (village chief or uncle) asked Arche of Zoe to save them by taking them away.
Now, you can be sure most of them will die.
You can find here the list of the children:
Les 103 enfants with their name and when their parents died (mostly Janjawids gunshots).
I don’t know if they broke the law in Darfur, (is there any kind of law there?) they just tried to save orphans that villages couldn’t afford to look after. As Darfur villages were forced to move into Tchad, the Tchad government told they were Tchad chidren and it was kidnapping.
So, what do you think? Villages gave up this orphans and asked Arche de Zoe to save them, and Unicef says they have family and they must return in Darfur.
Arche de Zoe says they don’t have parents and “chief of village” is not family! And Unicef says mind your business.
Before a reply, just google “Darfur” and check pictures, there is no tricks, have a look:
darfur - Google Recherche d'images