'More than half of the world’s refugees are children and often they are alone,' Christopher Boian said.
, nearly 400,000 in Afghanistan have been forced from their homes since the beginning of the year. They joined 2.9 million Afghans already displaced across the country since the end of 2020.
"All of us have, and know deep down that we have, an elemental human obligation to help people like this in their hour of need, just as we would hope and expect to be assisted were we to find ourselves in a similar situation," Boian said.on Intercountry Adoption, which includes the United States as a co-signer, requires that every attempt must be made to place a child in their country of origin before international adoption can be considered.
In short, the child must have been put on an in-country adoption list, and despite attempts, no domestic placement was made. Because refugee children are often displaced outside their country of origin, their adoption would be processed under the adoption laws of their new country.required parent to be eligible to adopt under U.S. law. American adoptions from Afghanistan were rare; now that the Taliban has taken over, it's unlikely prior adoption agreements will be upheld and
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