[KellyStacy]

I have ran across some agencies that say they have Romanian children available from the ages of 2 and up-Does anyone know if this is true or not/I thought Romania adoption was closed-I am completely confused-Also has anyone adopted from Romania a child 2 or older how are their bonding or attatchments-are these children genuinely healthy -if anyone could give me some insight about romania adoption-thank you

[Mrs. Z]

I'm afraid adoptions are still closed in Romania. My husband and I have been waiting 2 years. We have already been matched up. We had everything in before they shut down. The Prime Minister is signing a few dosiers at a time (just the cases that were caught in the moritorium, in before they shut down). Hopefully ours will be signed soon!

[Poland]

Below is a recent article regarding Romania:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...xportal.ht ml

EC issues ultimatum to Romania: stop child exports
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels
(Filed: 04/02/2004)

The European Commission has warned Romania to halt the export of children for adoption or face a bar on EU membership and the severance of aid funds.

The commission wrote to Adrian Nastase, the prime minister, warning that his government's conduct failed to meet the "political criteria" on human rights required for EU accession. Romania is hoping to join in 2007.

Adrian Nastase: under pressure to control child traffiking
The unprecedented letter, signed by Gunther Verheugen, the enlargement commissioner, not only threatened to cut off aid but also referred to the need for a "recovery of funds" already spent unless Bucharest can account for its actions.

Romania imposed a moratorium on adoptions in 2001 at the request of Lady Nicholson, a Liberal-Democrat MEP and the European Parliament's "rapporteur" on Romania. She said organised crime was exploiting reports about the country's orphanages as a "cover" for a much wider child-abuse industry.

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