International Adoption: A Global Scandal
Stolen Children for International Adoption Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists Ever wondered what adopted people are saying right now about adoption? This anthology begins with personal accounts and then shifts to a bird’s eye view on adoption from domestic, intercountry, and transracial adoptees who are now adoptee rights activists. Along with adopted people, this collection also includes the voices of …
BBC Unveiling the Untold Realities of Adoption
BBC with Nicky Campbell: Against Adoption. Nicky meets Arun Dohle, whose 17-year journey to find his parents ended in the High Court. When Arun Dohle was weeks old, he was adopted by a wealthy German couple who took him from his home country of India. As an adult, he began a search for his parents, which led to a battle …
Court Orders Holt to Compensate Crapser for Overseas Adoption
A local court has ordered Holt Children’s Services to pay compensation to a South Korean adoptee who was illegally sent overseas despite having biological parents in the country. The Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday sided with the plaintiff, 48-year-old Adam Crapser, born Shin Song-hyuk, ordering the agency to pay 100 million won, or 75-thousand U.S. dollars, plus delayed interest. …
Read This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption
Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …
New Adoptionland Youtube Channel
Announcing a new Youtube channel in an effort by the Adoption Truth & Transparency Worldwide Information Network (ATTWIN) founders intended to protect local and global families from the crisis of adoption trafficking. You will want to know why domestic, late-discovery, international, and transracial adult adoptees believe politics and religion should remain separate in governments. Adult adoptees from Europe, America, Asia, …
What are Families Separated by Adoption Saying Today?
Taken children–now adults–are critiquing a global man-made market. Adoption: What You Should Know & The Intersection Between Child Trafficking and International Adoption ask the same question… ‘Has the global man-made market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, and communities?’ For years, facilitators have denied adoptees access to documents that could lead them back to their families. In defense of the …
Adoption Trafficking Presentation
Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT). Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert and investigator in the field, Arun Dohle, talks about adoption trafficking. Read his contribution in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, Chapter, “I Can Never Forget“.
History Forced Adoptions, Monica Lennon
Marion McMillan finally getting her experiences heard at the Parliament. Her story deserves to be acknowledged and her personal account can be read in detail in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists. Marion McMillan’s (Scotland) chapter is titled, “On Behalf of Scottish Mothers.” page 119, Part 3: “Abandoned”
Private Adoption Industry Reaps Profits
A web of consultants, facilitators, and other middlemen have made private adoption a lucrative business. But the profit motives can leave mothers feeling coerced, and, nationwide, a lack of regulation creates opportunities for exploitation. In partnership with TIME, this Newsy report shows the murky world of the private adoption industry. This story was reported and published by Newsy.
For the Creation of a Committee Investigating the Illicit Intercountry Adoptions Since ’70s
Collective for the Recognition of Illicit Adoptions in France launched this petition addressed to the National Assembly and to 3 others (National Assembly representatives, French Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs). CHANGE.ORG Petition is Here. Many of us have been asking, for a few years now, for an investigation into the illegal practices of intercountry adoption in France. As of today, …
Canada’s Forced Adoption Practices Released
Press conference: The Shame Is Ours | Conférence de presse : Honte à nous | Canada’s forced adoption practices released July 19, 2018 “It is time to begin the healing process for unwed mothers and the children they were pressured into giving up in the decades after the Second World War, the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology …
The Netherlands will immediately suspend adoptions from abroad.
The Netherlands will immediately suspend adoptions from abroad. The outgoing Minister for Legal Protection Dekker announced this in response to the report of the Joustra Committee on the Dutch adoption culture and the role of the government. Ongoing adoption procedures will still be completed, after an additional test. The State will also no longer rely on prescription in adoptees’ proceedings. …
Twin Brothers Stolen and Sold to the Black Market: Interviewed by Oprah
In the 1930s and ’40s, a woman named Georgia Tann, a ruthless baby thief, ran a black-market ring stealing over 5,000 children and selling them to the highest bidder. In 1991, Twin brothers James and Thomas White, opened up to Oprah about the horrific abuse and torment they suffered from the moment that Georgia Tann’s gang kidnapped them at age …
10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Adopt Overseas in 2022
Would you be interested in a full copy of the Intersection Between Child Trafficking and International Adoption video once it is produced? Email info@adoptionhistory.com with “I’m Interested in a copy of the Adoption Trafficking Symposium” on the subject line. Has the global man-made market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, and communities? Free Information Before You Pay the $70,000 Adoption …
Closed Adoptions: A Form of Violence
“The era of closed adoption is not behind us yet, not by a long shot, however that urgently needs to change.” A team of scholars says the legal practice of closed adoption raised “disconnected” people and is a form of violence. The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming …
The Real Monte Haines Deportation Story
This Korean Adoption Book Reveals the Secrets and Truth about Korean Adoptions. “Hello, my American name is Monte Haines, and my Korean name is Han Ho Kyu. At age eight, I arrived in Iowa almost 6500 miles from Seoul, South Korea. I was scared and had no idea where I was. I was given a small room to sleep in, …
Screaming Rooms and Banished Babies: Ireland
The sad history of where I was born…. THE ORDER OF the Sacred Heart nuns arrived in Ireland in 1922 within months of the formation of the Irish Free state after the civil war. They were invited over from England by the newly-formed Irish government to deal with the ‘problem’ of women having babies outside wedlock. They bought a 200-acre …
Christian World Adoption (CWA)
2009 special report on Ethiopian child adoption agencies and how they exploit Ethiopian children and families. “This is Tegene, he’s a little abandoned child,” says the presenter on Christian World Adoption’s DVD catalogue of orphans. On the other side of the world, Lisa Boe fell in love. She adopted Tegene, who one day identified his real ‘mom’ in a photograph. …
Chinese Adoptions and Rehoming
Internet ‘Rehoming’: The Dark Side of International Adoptions They call it “adopting from disruption,” and you can find forums and mailing lists devoted to the topic across the Internet—everywhere from Facebook to until recently, Yahoo Groups. “My husband and I have never actually visited another country to adopt a child. Yet, our family includes Russian, Ethiopian, and Mexican born children,” …
Korea Plans to End International Adoptions
Korean Adoptees Worldwide Demand an End to International Adoption “Business” and Hague Ratification. South Korea plans to end foreign adoptions as UN urges Seoul to address past abuses By Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press World Dec 26, 2025 11:52 AM EST SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while …
South Korea plans to end foreign adoptions as U.N. urges Seoul to address past abuses
South Korea’s government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations investigators voiced “serious concern” over what they described as Seoul’s failure to ensure truth-finding and reparations for widespread human rights violations tied to decades of mass overseas adoptions.