Holt’s Front Door
Why is this a big deal? Because the front door is typically reserved for their customers—paying people applying for a child—checkbook in hand. Adopted people are expected to enter through the back, asking questions...
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How Adoption Has Mastered Humanity
Alienating a child from his biological family is exactly the same as erasing a part of the child. Teaching a child to unnecessarily hate his biology, preventing him from knowing his genetic family without...
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Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
Compiled by the Vance Twins, AdoptionLand: From Orphans to Activists, is an indispensable contribution to adoption literature. The essays, poems and letters in this compilation reflect the thoughts, the feelings, the souls of those who...
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Your baby is dead: Mothers say their supposedly stillborn babies were stolen from them
This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an...
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Kidnapped and Sold: Inside the Dark World of Child Trafficking in China
Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can the Congress do anything about it? In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her...
Understanding the Complexities of Adoption
Mae was trafficked from Haiti by white adoptive parents who purchased a birth certificate of a deceased child. That birth certificate became her identity. Her earliest memory of Haiti was going to a vodoo ceremony when her new parents returned...
Official Involved in Birth Certificate Fraud Turns Himself In
By Fan Yiying In China, fake documents obtained from the black market can be used to legitimize trafficked children. Government official who for years sold fake birth certificates has surrendered himself to the authorities,...
China’s Illicit Adoption Market Goes Online
by Cai Yiwen Children traded through chat groups and forums could be trafficked, warns lawyer. With China’s often long and cumbersome adoption process, many prospective parents are turning to internet chat groups to buy...
Adoption – Given or Taken
Four Corners ABC 2-3-12 “People think your a bad person because you gave your baby away, they need to know we didn’t give our babies away. We weren’t given our babies in the first...
Tears for Views: Reality TV for Loved Ones Lost
by Owen Churchill and Li You ‘Waiting for Me’ helps desperate families track down missing relatives, provided they are willing to relive trauma on stage. Song Xianzhong is talking through the photos of his...
East African Nations To Ban Foreigners From Adopting African Children
By: Divta Asiimwe AFRICANGLOBE – Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, who are currently sitting in Kampala, want EAC partner states to abolish international child adoption to stop the likelihood of children falling...
