NationStates Jolt Archive

RECOGNIZING that many thousands of children are given up for adoption every day around the world,

NOTING WITH REGRET that the majority of children given up for adoption are never adopted and live in foster care or on the streets,

CONCERNED that children over the age of one year are very difficult to find adoptive parents for,

FULLY AWARE that many well-off couples in the developed world prefer to have their own children instead of providing good homes for those children who are already alive and need homes,

THE UNITED NATIONS:

ESTABLISHES the United Nations Adoption Agency to oversee all adoption agencies within the borders of UN member states;

AFFIRMS that the goals of the UN Adoption Agency are:
--to ensure that more children are adopted,
--to work with governments for the assurance that adoption agencies are well-funded,
--to ensure that children who are never adopted receiving proper care, nourishment, and safety;

ENCOURAGES governments to offer tax relief to couples, individuals, or groups who decide to adopt children, either in the form of annual per-child tax credits or a percentage discount on income tax;

FURTHER ENCOURAGES governments to offer greater tax relief to those who choose to adopt than those who choose to have their own children;

DETERMINES that no citizen of a member state shall pay directly into the UN Adoption Agency's fund, though governments shall pay into the fund in amounts proportional to their GDP and number of children who are given up for adoption annually;

DECIDES to remain actively seized on the matter.

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Questions? Comments? Should I scrap the idea entirely, revise it, or promote it even more?

Scrap it. In my humble opinion, the UN has no authority here.

Turn it into a Refugee Protection Agency, participation voluntary. Include some clauses about adoption if you want. And lose this:DETERMINES that no citizen of a member state shall pay directly into the UN Adoption Agency's fund, though governments shall pay into the fund in amounts proportional to their GDP and number of children who are given up for adoption annually;

DECIDES to remain actively seized on the matter.The money part isn't clear or particularly appropriate, and the last line means ... what? "Actively seized"? I don't get the reference.

Turn it into a Refugee Protection Agency, participation voluntary. Include some clauses about adoption if you want. And lose this:The money part isn't clear or particularly appropriate, and the last line means ... what? "Actively seized"? I don't get the reference.

The "actively seized" reference is standard fare for the UN Security Council IRL, and the money issue essentially makes it voluntary for nations to give tax relief, but not mandatory. I didn't make it mandatory, as much as i would like to, because it would be too hard to define.

And frankly, if a nation doesn't want to participate, it will find some loophole and dodge it. This is true of any resolution.

And frankly, if a nation doesn't want to participate, it will find some loophole and dodge it. This is true of any resolution.

Exactly. Since this resolution does not define key terms such as adoption, my nation could set the legal definition of "adoption" as "a frimmlegogger's defecation" and the resolution would have no effect in my nation.

Exactly. Since this resolution does not define key terms such as adoption, my nation could set the legal definition of "adoption" as "a frimmlegogger's defecation" and the resolution would have no effect in my nation.

Although that could be said for any resolution. My nation could define the word "if" as "block of cheese" if it wanted to, thereby causing all the resolutions to have different meaning, provided they contain the word "if".