If anyone you know is considering using CCI, please urge them to watch the CBS 48 Hours piece called "Perilous Journey." It is about Celebrate Children International (CCI) and Sue Hedberg.
It is my fervent hope that this report will finally put CCI out of business. If people don't care about adopting stolen children, then maybe they will be moved by the closing statement: "If CCI is not Hague accredited by July, it will no longer be able to initiate international adoptions."
Find more information from the U.S. State Department:
http://adoption.state.gov/hague_convention/agency_accreditation/universal_accreditation_act.php
I notice an uptick in people reading my old post on CCI. And look at Google Trends for people searching CCI adoption:
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| Check out the spike for January 2014. |
Maybe people are coming to their senses and finally doing a little research before selecting this terrible agency.
It is horrifying they are still around. It defies understanding how anyone with an internet connection could even consider them. They were one of the first agencies crossed off my list in 2008 because it was so obvious what they were about.
ReplyDeleteSome people don't research; they only pray.
DeleteAnd yet there are probably adoption boards where people are still fervently defending them and calling those of us who caution against them "anti-adoption."
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely, I see that a lot.
DeleteI watched the show and one thought I had at the end was, "I wonder how that family that supports CCI in the show feels now, after watching the rest of the show?" Unfortunately, they probably still blindly support the agency. It seems like some people are just not ever going to get it, as simple as it is.
ReplyDeleteYou know how all it takes is ONE cold day for some people to say, "See, climate change is not real" - all it takes is one successfully completed and honest adoption by CCI for the same people to say, "See, they are ethical." Even the most horrible agency can have a successful and honest adoption. That doesn't make it not be horrible.
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