In August AVI was invited to meet over twenty adopted Vietnamese individuals from America who were meeting in Chicago to launch the US based adoptee group, The Vietnamese Adoptee Network. This event was also attended by advisory group, Mam Non who later invited AVI to attend an event for adoptive parents and adoptees in Ann [...]

Overseas Adopted Child’s Names Made Compulsory A new legislation requires that adoptive parents must keep their overseas adopted child’s original first name definitely if they’re over 12 months and preferably before that too. For more info on actual policy: www.acwa.asn.au/acwa/news/LRCGray.doc Edited from Sunday Telegraph, August 2002 ‘New Names Banned for Children Adopted Abroad’ by Katrina [...]