An Important Correction

I want to make a correction to my "venting" yesterday on the blog. In my emotion I expressed frustration that it seemed families who had used unlicensed agencies had been aloud to complete their adoptions. This, I have been informed, is not at all true. All families who have been aloud to finish adoptions here in Ho Chi Minh, and in all other provinces I'm aware of, have had signed agreements with licensed agencies for those adoptions to be complete.

I am very sorry to have published anything incorrectly. Nor did I mean by my frustration to imply that I am not sympathetic to any family who, unknowingly, began their adoptions with an agency that had dishonestly led their clients to believe they were legally licensed in Vietnam.

I hope all families, and the government of Vietnam, as well as my own government, would forgive any misrepresentation I published here in my moment of emotion.