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- Rich countries accelerate adoptions of Haitian children after the quake.
- France will receive 130 children from Haiti in the adoption process.
- Until within ten years can not be performing any adoption.

- In a year early start to arrange adoptions.
- More than 300 couples are running for Brazilian adopt Haitian children.

Twenty families of the Balearic Islands and has been interested in adopting children of Haiti who have been orphaned after the devastating earthquake of January 12, which has killed some 100,000 people, while 48% of the affected population is under 18 years.

The president of the Adoption Illes Balears, Ramón Rotger, has revealed that since the disaster occurred, the entity has received daily an average of four phone calls from citizens requesting information archipelago about the procedures should undertake to adopt Haitian children.

however, said that he had informed these people interested in adopting that whenever there is a war or a catastrophe like a hurricane or an earthquake, there is an international standard, which states that until ten years after these events you can not take any decision.

In this regard, stresses that the priority at this time in Haiti is to identify and reunite children who roam the streets of Port-au-Prince to find her parents or nearest relatives, in case you have not died after the earthquake, for which they are already working in Haiti's capital international organizations such as UNICEF and Save The Children.

However, Rotger predicts that, if it is impossible to find relatives of children, it is likely that within a year will begin to arrange the first international adoptions, for which, as indicated, should have been regularized the situation of the country, which currently is in a state of chaos due to the lack of medicines and basic goods like food and water. On the other hand, points out that another reason why it still will not take any decision is to avoid the emergence of gangs that kidnapped and sold to minors in other countries, although many of them may have immediate family in Haiti.

Thus, insists that the goal should be for Haitian families can live "with dignity in their country with the help of all."

'adoption as a last resort'

precisely, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) points out that orphans and abandoned children in Haiti should only be given up for adoption abroad as a last resort and in this regard, he recalled that in such emergencies, children are "unfortunately the most vulnerable, especially those who have been abandoned."

"We fear that can produce cases of child trafficking," the spokesman UNICEF's Veronique Taveau, who emphasized that children should "stay as far as possible in their country of birth." On the other hand, reported that there are reports of violence against children in Haiti since the earthquake struck, taking into account that are homeless and many of them sleep and walk alone through the streets in search of food and water after their parents have died or are missing.

Source: elmundo.es - Europa Press of whom only knew the name. FaceBook social network allowed the discovery at age 38. This American man, tracked down her two brothers, who did not know it was given up for adoption shortly after birth and had no concrete information about his mother, the Daily News.

Jonathan Frank, a shopkeeper who lives in Bayonne, in the state of New Jersey, discovered the names of his brothers, John Martino and Janine, last week, and on Sunday met the three first time. "Facebook is awesome. I feel great, like I won the lottery," he says in the pages of Frank, They have two daughters and for years has tried to locate her birth mother, who only knew the maiden name.

"I had a hole in my heart," said the man, that he even hire a private detective to track down the woman who gave up for adoption.

This found that the biological mother of Frank died three years ago due to liver cancer, but told him that he had two sons, John Martino and Janine.

The U.S. tried to locate them by various means without success, until he realized that one of the 226 'John Martino' found on Facebook that had a friend named 'Janine', so he decided to write a message and tell its history.

"I do not know if you are my brother or not, or if you're looking for me but for my whole life I've been waiting for this moment," wrote Frank, who just an hour later he received a brief reply in which his brother gave a phone number and asked that call him.

's father John and Janine Martino confirmed the story of Jonathan Frank immediately and even told them that shortly before his death, the mother of the three posted a message on a website dedicated to try to find the son he gave for adoption for more than four decades.

Source: nydailynews.com