'Clearing houses' Neal's position is taken a step further by Roelie Post, of Against Child Trafficking, an NGO based in Brussels opposed to international adoption.
| "Traumatised children need familiarity and consistency. And if you pluck them out of all that's familiar to them ... then it's not an improvement to their psyche" Kathie Neal, |
"The issue at stake is that Haiti has for a long time been known as a country with not a good adoption procedure," Post said.
"Orphanages are clearing houses in Haiti. As soon as the children enter the home, they are signed up to an international adoption agency. This means that the parents, if they are alive and they want them back, cannot get them back."
Post said there was a different understanding in Haiti of what adoption really means.
"In the Western world you get a new birth certificate, with the names of the adoptive parents. There's no legal link with the [biological] family," she said.
"The system in Haiti is more like foster care and the family link remains. And the people in Haiti in do not know what international adoption really means."
Parents believe they will still be able to be reunited with their children, Post said.
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