Gladney Taiwan Adoption: April 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Trey and Tessa

We have been home with Tessa YiLing for almost three years now! She was adopted as an infant from Taiwan in July 2007. She is perfect, vivacious, beautiful and just our little doodlebug.

Trey JingLai has been home almost 9 months! He was adopted at 5 years in age from the Chung Yi adoption program. He transitioned into our family of 4 other children quickly and started school 2 weeks later. He does well in school and if full of life!

Older child adoption is truly a blessing for our family. We could not have asked for a sweeter and more loving little boy. We feel lucky to have Five Fabulous Children now in our family!

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Cuddled Up Together!

Alec- Suited Up for the Beach!

Alec was ready to hit the beach after packing all of his beach necessities!

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Taiwan Festival in NYC!

PASSPORT to TAIWAN 2010!

May 30, 2010 from 12-5 pm

at Union Square Park North in NYC

The "Passport to Taiwan" festival began in 2002 and has become the most important event for the Taiwanese American and the Mandarin Speaking community in the New York Tri-State area. The festival is reported to be the largest outdoor Taiwanese event in the entire United States. We hope your family will be able to make it out to this wonderful celebration!!

For more details please visit the event website: http://p2tw.org/default.aspx.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Taiwan Adoption Well Worth the Wait

A Gladney Center for Adoption couple traveled more than 7,000 miles last month to complete their family of six through Taiwan Adoption Program.

Read the Story

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE May 2012

The child welfare laws of Taiwan are undergoing significant revisions. New legislation, “Protection of Children and Youths Welfare and Rights Act,” was passed in November 2011. The legislation has an implementation date of June 1, 2012 and addresses various aspects of child welfare including adoption services.

Expected changes include:
Only government-licensed child welfare organizations will be able to provide adoption services. Child Welfare organizations will be subject to increased requirements and standards in terms of initial licensing and renewals, as well as ongoing agency procedures and services.

Judges will be authorized to require that adoptive parents receive parent training, physical and mental health assessments, alcohol and drug screenings, and/or criminal background clearances.

Domestic placement will be considered a priority, with international adoption becoming an option after efforts have been made to place the child with a local family. All adoptable children will be listed on a country-wide database. After being posted on the database, a child is eligible to be considered for international adoption.