TOO MUCH RED TAPE IN CAMBODIA FOR MADONNA TO ADOPT BABY, SAYS PHNOM PENH POST
January 16th 2008 08:18
The Phnom Penh Post reports that “rumours are circulating wildly” that American actress Madonna and her British husband Guy Ritchie may come to Cambodia to adopt a baby sister for David Banda, the boy they adopted from Malawi in 2006.
British tabloid The Sun claimed the couple hoped the adoption processes in Cambodia would involve less red tape than in Malawi.
But the Phnom Penh Post reports…“it's unlikely there would be less ‘red tape’ in Cambodia as long as a current ban on US adoptions here remains in force. Both the US and Britain have suspended adoptions from Cambodia except under certain extraordinary circumstances.”
Lawmaker Son Chhay told the Phnom Penh Post that Cambodian adoption legislation is still far away from meeting international adoption standards. "In the last two years adoptions from Cambodia have decreased significantly because of the suspensions. At present Cambodian legislation is not even half way to meeting such standards as the Hague Convention on adoption."
Madonna could however could have a loophole: her father was a first generation Italian-American, and Italy still allows adoptions from Cambodia.
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