Wednesday, January 20, 2010

To Clarify

Just to clarify...At this point, they are only releasing children who have a previous orphan status through the Haitian system... and are matched with families. I just think some "quick" matches are trying to be made to allow more children to come to the US for safety. Children orphaned b/c of the quake are not eligible b/c they cannot be sure to be orphaned. Due dilligence must be done to establish that they are, in fact, orphans... and not able to be raised by family members or others. And right now, that's just tough to establish b/c of the chaos. What the hope seems to be is that they can empty the orphanages of children that have families waiting here or in other places... in order to take in the children that need care due to the quake. They'll have to sort out the true family status of each of the children at a later date.

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