Global Adoption News
For every forever family built by adoption, another family is forever torn. What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)? To prevent another travesty after World War II, government...
“We are complaining because international adoption takes 3 years and costs $28,000.00.” Every child has the right to be sold into the adoption market so that children can be raised in a loving U.S....
Want to know why so many adoptees no longer tolerate the business of adoption? Wonder why so many adoptees disapprove of the practice and have banded together to fight for their rights to blood-family and...
I definitely recommend Grace Harstad’s Invisible Woman: A Birth Mother’s Memoir for the public and particularly for young women—if we as a global society want to protect mothers from adoption loss. As someone who...
To whom it may concern: Please consider reassessing the practice of adoption. For every family created by adoption, another family is forever torn For every baby sent overseas today, his/her identity is forever altered...
As of this writing, it’s been twelve years since my twin sister and I traveled to Seoul, South Korea, for the first time to attend the 2004 Korean Adoptee Conference. From the more than...
Every child who enters an orphanage comes from a family—a family who needs help and could provide care if the money spent on adoption was used to uplift and rebuild the family. Many parents...
Guatemala was once one of the world’s most popular adoption destinations, but stopped the practice after mass corruption was exposed. An American woman is set to stand trial over related charges. To hear the...
Parents in China have for years faced an agonizing prospect: having their child abducted and sold into a trafficking ring. The problem is remarkably common and intractable, with tens of thousands of children going...
Racket operators took advance money from a couple just by showing them a pregnant woman whose baby they would have passed on to them. The newborn traffickers of Jalpaiguri were constantly on the lookout...
BJP leader Juhi Chowdhury, suspected to be involved in the sensational child trafficking racket in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, was arrested on Monday night close to the India-Nepal border in Darjeeling district by CID...
I am writing this letter on behalf of Hyunsu’s life and in his memory. This letter is to Hyunsu’s Korean mother, Foster mother and ALL Mothers who want to protect their children, because I...
By Mark Baker , Asia Editor Phnom Penh Angelina Jolie with her adopted Cambodian son, Maddox. Photo: AAP An American agent who arranged a controversial Cambodian adoption for actress Angelina Jolie is reportedly planning...
