{"id":11302,"date":"2013-10-24T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11302"},"modified":"2013-10-24T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T07:45:33","slug":"dutch-to-adopt-black-sa-orphans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11302","title":{"rendered":"Dutch to adopt black SA orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blackorphans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11303\" alt=\"blackorphans\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blackorphans.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>The lives of hundreds of black orphans might soon change for the better because of inter-country adoption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The SA Central Authority, which oversees adoptions in this country, has given adoption agency Wandisa permission to cooperate in inter-country adoptions with the Nederlandse Adoptie Stichting, a Dutch agency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A director of the Dutch agency, Macky Hupkes, said his organisation was waiting for the authorities of both countries to conclude a state-to-state adoptions agreement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The founder and president of Wandisa, Debbie Wybrow, said: &#8221; Many Dutch families have indicated their willingness to adopt older children and those who have special needs,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Census 2011 estimated that there were 3.3million orphans in South Africa. Between 1.5million and 2million of them could benefit from inter-country adoption.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Dutch adoptive mother said the new South African-Netherlands agreement was a relief to her and her husband.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have been trying to adopt for four years . and are overwhelmed that children who need parents can finally get them,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was painful being told that you may be good parents, but you are not Christian and therefore are not allowed to be parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adoptions made headlines last month when the SA Human Rights Commission launched an investigation into allegations of discrimination against three adoption agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The agencies were accused of discriminating against homosexual and non-Christian would-be adoptive parents, contravening the constitution and the Children&#8217;s Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wandisa is waiting for the approval of adoption agreements with Canada and Ireland, which were submitted in 2009 and 2010 respectively. &#8211; timeslive.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lives of hundreds of black orphans might soon change for the better because of inter-country adoption. The SA Central Authority, which oversees adoptions in this country, has given adoption agency Wandisa permission to cooperate in inter-country adoptions with the Nederlandse Adoptie Stichting, a Dutch agency. A director of the Dutch agency, Macky Hupkes, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=11302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dutch to adopt black SA orphans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3,4],"tags":[7125,7124,7126,7123,12250,7127],"class_list":["post-11302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-black-orphans","tag-dutch-adoption-agency","tag-inter-country-adoptions","tag-nederlandse-adoptie-stichting","tag-south-africa","tag-wandisa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/blackorphans.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11304,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11302\/revisions\/11304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}