Our GuestBlogger today is David Archuletta, the father of a wrongfully adopted son. His son was placed for adoption by his girlfriend; he was told that the baby was stillborn and not his. The child was his and now David is devoted to adoption reform in the U.S. He has published a book: "Odyssey of an Unknown Father: The Complete Book on Wrongful Adoption." To date he has yet to see his child.

David has a newly published novel: " Dying Swans Club / An Expose: A Rosie O'Donnell Funded Adoption Agency."  This novel explores the hidden reasons behind the closure of a Rosie O'Donnell funded Adoption Agency. "It is a story that reflects on the life of the author and a four year-old girl named Destiny. This child considers as first victim of a wrongful adoption case."  This book is available for purchase here.

To the Sirs and Madams of our nation's library:

In analogy, the Library of Congress is a brick and mortar structure built on a foundation of knowledge formed through the perseverance of those that seek such knowledge. However, although well-schooled, we are still yet but imperfect human beings. That said, even in these hallowed halls, sometimes we can run across wrongly applied determinations. Moreover, although these oversights are published by an authority perspective to each field of expertise, when found, shouldn’t we correct these wrongs? In my opinion, this should be done regardless if the error found by a common layperson such as myself.

In the Library of Congress Subject Heading department there is a newly recognized term. It is “Wrongful Adoption,” and it cites definition as follows:

With the increase in the number of children being adopted from Ethiopia in the last few years (2009-- 2,277; 2008 – 1725; 2007 -1255; 2006- 732), there have been more reports of unethical practices and irregularities in some of these adoptions. There are of course ethical adoptions from Ethiopia, probably a large majority of them, but of course no adoption system is perfect and inconsistencies are quickly picked up by the media. At this point in time, Ethiopian adoptions are growing at a faster rate than any other country.

Ethiopia is not party to the Hague Adoption Convention and due to concerns of corruption and child trafficking in Ethiopian adoptions, the U. S. Embassy in Addis Ababa has implemented some changes.

Adoptive parents should be aware that an I-604 (Determination on Child for Adoption, sometimes referred to as “orphan investigation”) must be completed in connection with every I-600 application. Depending on the circumstances of the case, this investigation may take up to several weeks or even months to complete. Therefore, adoptive parents should not plan to travel to Ethiopia until they have confirmed with their adoption agency that their visa interview appointment has been confirmed.

Russia has suspended all pending adoptions in response to one American adoptive parent’s decision to send her adopted child back to Russia claiming that he was severely psychologically damaged. This response from Russia was expected and frankly I think it is the right decision at this point. Russia is outraged that no charges have been filed against the mother for “disadopting” her child in this manner. To date, we’ve heard nothing from the mother, who obviously did her homework when it came to finding a way to send her adopted son back to Russia and have someone pick him up when he arrived. The fact that she has not been charged points to a strong possibility that she spoke to a lawyer and found some loop hole that would allow her to “disadopt” her son  without facing any repercussions from the law (to date.)

I agree with Russia’s outrage at this horrendously irresponsible behavior on the part of this adoptive mother but I also think it is high time that Russia addressed two serious issues in their country that are related to this incident:

1.The high number of children born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)in Russia. FAS causes stunted growth, facial deformity, neurological deficits including low IQ, learning disabilities and vision and hearing problems and serious behavioral problems. There are even more children with neurological and behavioral problems that fall under the fetal alcohol syndrome spectrum that do not have the physical features. 

Our GuestBlogger today is David Archuletta, the father of a wrongfully adopted son.His son was placed for adoption by his girlfriend; he was told that the baby was stillborn and not his. The child was his and now David is devoted to adoption reform in the U.S. He has published a book: "Odyssey of an Unknown Father: The Complete Book on Wrongful Adoption." To date he has yet to see his child.

This is the true story describing the practices employed by one Rosie O'Donnell funded Children of the World Adoption Agency [COWAA]. It 'was' located in Verona, New Jersey; this agency's doors have remained self-closed since May of 2007. It is also from within these walls where plots were conceived and masqueraded in the workings of a real adoption agency. As for the reasons for the closing of this agency, there remains the dark history of a corporate suicide! Had someone revealed this company's blueprint for wrongful adoption?

It was me that forced the State Attorney General Office to lean heavily on an already suspect New Jersey Department of Human Services. They in turn, were instructed to render unto COWAA a take it or leave it proposition for the Board of Trustees. That thought withstanding, and whilst all faces were longer than the table at which they sat, it must have been the Chairwoman of the Board, a Mrs. Margaret Morrisey, who probably thought it better to reserve the company a more preferable choice-spot in hell!