Compassion for Orphans

Did you know our service has no fees?

One of our main aims is to make intercountry adoption affordable for the average New Zealand family and we do this by challenging all costs in the process. The Chile and Thailand Government do not require any payments and since our inception in 2003 we have not charged families any fees.

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Intercountry Adoption | How we are Funded | Compassion for Orphans We do not receive any government funding and since our inception (in 2003) we have not charged any adoption fees to applicants or adoptive parents. The reason for this is that one of our major aims is to reduce the cost of intercountry adoption, so that it is affordable for the average New Zealand f...

"Is It Ethical To Adopt A Child From Overseas?"

There are some moral issues when it comes to Intercountry Adoption. Some of the reasons why there may be an anti-intercountry adoption view include:

- “That you are robbing a country of its children and the children of their culture and language”;
- “That you have bought a baby”;
- “That it is better to leave a child to be brought up in its own race and culture even if it means a lifetime in an institution”;
- “That adopting a child is putting a band-aid on and ignoring the real problem which is helping a country out of poverty”, and;
- “That trans-racial adoption can result in a child with a confused identity and racism can result.”

​In many circumstances these are valid statements and any suggestion of intercountry adoption as an option for a child must be considered against the backdrop of these statements.

Continue reading this blog post our our website here: https://www.cfo.org.nz/single-post/2018/04/04/Is-it-ethical-to-adopt-a-child-from-overseas