Little help...

So, ethics is a big deal in adoption. It isn't something I have talked about a lot, but it is something that I feel is incredibly important.  I mean, some day you have to look your children in the eye and answer their questions about their grief and losses. And you damn well better know the real answers. And you really want to make sure that you weren't knowingly or unknowingly contributing to the vast misfortune that lead to them leaving their family, culture, and everything they knew and loved. A. and J. were doing their best to make sure they could look their new son from Haiti in the eye and tell him that they loved him enough to make sure that there really was no other option for him that would be less traumatic. That, while the things that led him into an orphanage and into an 'adoptable' status were tragic, they weren't caused by an agency trying to find children to meet a need for rich Westerners. The investigating they did led to some very troubling discoveries about their agency. While their adoption has been independently investigated and found to be lawful and necessary, the agency has been doing some incredibly unethical things. This sweet boy, Alex, is legally A and J's son. He has been waiting for a year to come home to his permanent family; all they need to do is to submit their dossier to the officials to obtain a visa to bring him home. Their agency (you know, the one with all of the shady dealings) will not release this dossier unless A and J agree to sign a gag order and not divulge the unethical nature of their practices. They are holding this kid hostage so that they don't get in trouble. In order to make sure that A and J can expose this agency and what it is doing to families in Haiti and still bring Alex home, they need to redo their entire dossier. This will cost them around $8500 that they really don't have lying around, because they, you know, just completed an adoption. They paid for the adoption fees, but don't have enough to pay to redo everything (and who would? Certainly not me!).  If you have a few extra dollars, please consider sending it their way. You can check out the story in their own words at:
http://at-the-watershed-blog.blogspot.com/p/why-we.html