The minutes of the Dutch Parliamentary meeting are important for the adoption community to read and understand. For years, the response to allegations of corruption has largely been, "I trust that my government will look into it. If the program is...

Below is the second half of the of the minutes from the November 9, 2009 meeting of the Parliamentary committee meeting held to debate the information contained in the report submitted by Ina Hut, the previous director of "World Children", the largest...

There is one characteristic of parenting common to all of us. It is so strong, that parents will sometimes give up their child in order to fulfill this desire. In poor areas, this impulse is particularly strong. It is the desire that a child have a...

On November 9, 2009 the minutes of a Parliamentary committee meeting were released to the public. The meeting of representatives of the Dutch Parliament was held to debate the information contained in the report submitted by Ina Hut, the previous...

On October 1, 2009, Ina Hut, former director of Weltkinderen in the Netherlands, presented a summary of actions, taken by herself and the Dutch Ministry of Justice, to the Dutch Parliament. Her report details how she became aware of issues of...