In January, after 13 months in limbo, Ella Purkiss was finally granted survivor benefits from her deceased husband. She says if it had taken even one month longer she would have been evicted from her trailer home in Pahrump, Nevada. Next Friday, after 60 years of living in the US, she will finally be granted American citizenship. Purkiss, 62, was …
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostThe book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostAdoption Stories: Excerpts from Adoption Books for Adults
Information is Power. Adopted people are diverse individuals with differing points of view, yet have been stigmatized into one type of people by the industry leaders. Even though we come from various backgrounds, we’ve been stereotyped as if all of us are somehow ungrateful if we don’t show enough appreciation, labeled as if having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we …
Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostAdam Crapser Filed a Landmark Lawsuit Against the South Korean Government and Holt Children’s Services
Adam Crapser filed a landmark lawsuit against South Korean Government and Holt Children’s Services
Did you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans?
View PostBBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine
It was front-page news around the world when a mass grave was discovered at a Mother and Baby Home in Ireland. The remains of almost 800 babies were found. But research by Paul Redmond showed that this was only “the tip of the iceberg”. He collected evidence of high death rates at homes for illegitimate children across Ireland and also …
Korean adoptee died alone searching for his roots.
The child who went on the road to adoption 37 years ago, temporarily returned home in his middle age, anxiously searched for his biological parents and at the end turned to ashes. He who wandered the whole country searching for his blood relatives, he could not feel the affection of his blood relatives and died alone, and even in death, …
Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
“We are the parents of the missing children. …I am a parent of a missing child. I don’t know where she is. I’ve had a reunion. I’ve seen her for five minutes in 32 years. I don’t know where she is.” Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostThe book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostA Brief History of Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home
The third floor also had a few ‘private’ rooms where well-off families who could afford to pay handed over the huge sum of £100 for privacy and a speedy exit. 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. The Order was invited …
2021 Adoption Concerns
Reasons why people may register a complaint and what to watch out for with unethical adoptions. Keep in mind that though adoption may be legal in the United States or other European countries, what happens behind ‘closed’ doors or in foreign countries to obtain ‘your’ child is not always ethical and could lead to child trafficking. If your agency does …
Exposing India’s Illegal Baby Trade – Journeyman
“I wept. I tried to hang myself, so I could die. Everything was pointless without my kids. I swallowed medicines, drank kerosene oil. I was admitted to a hospital for a month. Then I swallowed pills, so I could die.” recalls Sunama. She didn’t know where they were, or if they were even alive. Sunama grieved, hoped, and lost hope …
Children for Sale – Vice International
“Children shouldn’t serve a couple’s need to have a baby.”
Adoption Stories: Excerpts from Adoption Books for Adults
Information is Power. Adopted people are diverse individuals with differing points of view, yet have been stigmatized into one type of people by the industry leaders. Even though we come from various backgrounds, we’ve been stereotyped as if all of us are somehow ungrateful if we don’t show enough appreciation, labeled as if having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we …
10+ Hidden Adoption Surprises in 2021
Are you thinking about adopting a child? Do you have any questions about adoption? Don’t know who to ask? Join the FREE discussion first before you write the $30,000 check. It’s free to join.
Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostMeet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
BLUE BAYOU – Coming Soon!
An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and step-dad to …
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.
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostFor 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 …
Meet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
BLUE BAYOU – Coming Soon!
An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and step-dad to …
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”
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostA Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family
Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostI’m looking for you MUM!!
Hi, my name is Rossella Carrara Hürlemann and I’m looking for my biological parents. I was born in Peru. Rossella was adopted 44 years ago and wants to find biological parents. She lives in Germany, has three daughters, and says that at six months she was given up for adoption to an Italian woman. She says that since she was …
Mother Reunites With Her Daughter After 42 Years Of Searching for Her | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN
Linda was 15 years old when she was forced to place her baby girl for adoption. In 2010, genealogist Pam Slaton helped Linda find her daughter, Laura. It had been 42 years since Laura was born, and Laura flew more than 2,000 miles to meet the woman who gave her life. Here, witness the emotional mother-daughter reunion that brought Oprah …
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
Susan Lohan: Philomena Cheered by Stars While the State Turns Deaf Ear
THE ‘real’ Philomena Lee, subject of the film Philomena, deserves the admiration and thanks of Ireland’s forgotten adopted people and their natural mothers for her undaunting campaign to have this dark chapter of our history highlighted. Thanks to the determination of this dignified 80-year-old lady, her daughter Jane, writer Martin Sixsmith, film producer Steve Coogan and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, …
Adoption Trafficking Presentation CCARHT 2021
Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert Arun Dohle. 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.
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostFor 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, …
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
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.
How I Survived Adoption.
We offer global news on adoption based on the stories of families separated by adoption. The website was initiated in 2014 in conjunction with the anthology, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, the first book to address issues that adoption agencies were too afraid to face or trying to hide–the families left behind and individuals adopted. Who are we? We are …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostAdoption Stories: Excerpts from Adoption Books for Adults
Information is Power. Adopted people are diverse individuals with differing points of view, yet have been stigmatized into one type of people by the industry leaders. Even though we come from various backgrounds, we’ve been stereotyped as if all of us are somehow ungrateful if we don’t show enough appreciation, labeled as if having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we …
Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostSavior or Neocolonialism
A Still from Vanessa Beecroft’s The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins. Photograph: Vanessa Beecroft Film by Pietra Brettkelly “Without the knowledge of her husband, on her third visit to South Sudan, Vanessa attempts to adopt the twins. In a shell-shocked building the father of the twins puts his thumbprint to 10 copies of an affidavit.” Pietra Brett Kelly followed …
The Child Citizenship Act of 2000
December 1, 2000 The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 On October 30, 2000, President Clinton signed into law H.R. 2883, the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. The new law, Public Law 106-395, amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to permit foreign-born children—including adopted children —to acquire citizenship automatically if they meet certain requirements. It becomes effective on February 27, …
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, …
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View Post2021 Adoption Concerns
Reasons why people may register a complaint and what to watch out for with unethical adoptions. Keep in mind that though adoption may be legal in the United States or other European countries, what happens behind ‘closed’ doors or in foreign countries to obtain ‘your’ child is not always ethical and could lead to child trafficking. If your agency does …
10 Reasons Why You Should Be Careful Before Adopting Overseas in 2021
Free Information Before You Pay the $30,000 Adoption Cost for Your Child: Adopted children are not asked if they want to leave their families, country of origin, and communities. Child finders (the middleman) are paid salaries to find the perfect child for the paying consumer. Many children are stolen or kidnapped for overseas adoption. Children are not commodities. Many vulnerable …
Fusion Investigates International Adoption
Fusion, The Traffickers “I didn’t know I was going to go to a new place. When I went to the orphanage I thought I just stay there to do some something, but then I noticed I was never coming back.” Adopted Child “One thing is clear about international adoption is that nothing is straight forward, nothing is as it seems. …
Long Lost Family (UK) Season 7, Episode 6
View PostGirl in Return: A Teenager Reclaims her Identity and Fights the Adoption System.
Years after being adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark, a teenager reclaims her identity and fights the adoption system.
They rescue 23 victims of trafficking in “a factory to make babies” in Nigeria
The Nigerian Police rescued 19 pregnant women and 4 children victims of human trafficking in a “factory to make babies” in the city of Lagos, where they were forced to become pregnant and sell their newborns, said Monday police spokesman
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
Adoption Trafficking Presentation CCARHT 2021
Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert Arun Dohle. 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.
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostFor 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, …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostMeet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
BLUE BAYOU – Coming Soon!
An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and step-dad to …
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostFor 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, …
A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family
Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View Post#SorryJungIn
Abusive Adoptive Parents: The Case of Jung In & Why BTS’s Jimin Apologized #정인아_미안해 #SorryJungin #Jimin Ever wondered what Korean adopted people are saying today about adoption? This is a powerful and important read for all. The adoptee voice is all too often silenced, and it can literally be life or death for some to be heard and seen.” – Claire, Amazon …
Holt Children’s Services Takes Heat in Abuse Death Case
#SorryJungin The Last Letter to Jungin #SorryJungin 정인이에게 보내는 우리의 마지막 편지 (The Last Letter to Jungin)ㅣ그알PICK SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) — Children’s rights activists on Thursday urged the health ministry to look into the role, if any, of a major adoption agency in the death of a 16-month-old adoptee. At a press conference near Cheong Wa Dae, the activists, …
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 book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View Post2021 Adoption Concerns
Reasons why people may register a complaint and what to watch out for with unethical adoptions. Keep in mind that though adoption may be legal in the United States or other European countries, what happens behind ‘closed’ doors or in foreign countries to obtain ‘your’ child is not always ethical and could lead to child trafficking. If your agency does …
10 Reasons Why You Should Be Careful Before Adopting Overseas in 2021
Free Information Before You Pay the $30,000 Adoption Cost for Your Child: Adopted children are not asked if they want to leave their families, country of origin, and communities. Child finders (the middleman) are paid salaries to find the perfect child for the paying consumer. Many children are stolen or kidnapped for overseas adoption. Children are not commodities. Many vulnerable …
Al Jazeera: Canada’s Dark Secret
Al Jazeera | Canada’s Dark Secret | Featured Documentary “In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant “Canadian” culture. Over more than a century, tens of thousands of families have torn …
Destroy all birth registrations created by the adoption process…
Photo credit: Craig Wallace Recently, I decided to apply for a certified copy of my “Long Form” birth certificate. (The “Long Form” contains such information as your parent’s names, the hospital you were born in, etc.) While working on the online application, one area I had to complete was “Parent(s) information at the time of this child’s birth.” There is …
Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostBabies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
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.
They Took Us Away From Our Mom.
“They came marching right in and literally took us and thousands of other children from their homes.” The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”. Toward the end of the 19th century, the US took thousands of Native American children and enrolled them in off-reservation boarding schools, stripping them of their …
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostHow I Survived Adoption.
We offer global news on adoption based on the stories of families separated by adoption. The website was initiated in 2014 in conjunction with the anthology, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, the first book to address issues that adoption agencies were too afraid to face or trying to hide–the families left behind and individuals adopted. Who are we? We are …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostAdoption Stories: Excerpts from Adoption Books for Adults
Information is Power. Adopted people are diverse individuals with differing points of view, yet have been stigmatized into one type of people by the industry leaders. Even though we come from various backgrounds, we’ve been stereotyped as if all of us are somehow ungrateful if we don’t show enough appreciation, labeled as if having Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) when we …
Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostMy Journey into Truth, Transparency, and Adoptionland
From the more than 160,000 children flown overseas by agency facilitators, 400 of us arrived in our motherland intending to celebrate, and contemplate, fifty years of intercountry adoption.
Adoption Trafficking Presentation CCARHT 2021
Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert Arun Dohle. Read his contribution in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, Chapter, “I Can Never Forget“.
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
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, …
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostThe 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. …
2021 Adoption Concerns
Reasons why people may register a complaint and what to watch out for with unethical adoptions. Keep in mind that though adoption may be legal in the United States or other European countries, what happens behind ‘closed’ doors or in foreign countries to obtain ‘your’ child is not always ethical and could lead to child trafficking. If your agency does …
10 Reasons Why You Should Be Careful Before Adopting Overseas in 2021
Free Information Before You Pay the $30,000 Adoption Cost for Your Child: Adopted children are not asked if they want to leave their families, country of origin, and communities. Child finders (the middleman) are paid salaries to find the perfect child for the paying consumer. Many children are stolen or kidnapped for overseas adoption. Children are not commodities. Many vulnerable …
The Lost Children of Cold War Greece
With English Subtitles Watch this important documentary that explores a subject considered taboo until now: the adoptions of over 3,000 Greek children to the US and another 600 to the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. “Nobody paid attention to the facts. The only important thing was that the children would go to America quickly and without much paperwork. That …
Susan Lohan: Philomena Cheered by Stars While the State Turns Deaf Ear
THE ‘real’ Philomena Lee, subject of the film Philomena, deserves the admiration and thanks of Ireland’s forgotten adopted people and their natural mothers for her undaunting campaign to have this dark chapter of our history highlighted. Thanks to the determination of this dignified 80-year-old lady, her daughter Jane, writer Martin Sixsmith, film producer Steve Coogan and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, …
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.
A Brief History of Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home
The third floor also had a few ‘private’ rooms where well-off families who could afford to pay handed over the huge sum of £100 for privacy and a speedy exit. 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. The Order was invited …
Chile’s stolen children: American woman finds her Chilean mother 36 years after birth
By Rafael Romo Senior Latin American Affairs Editor (CNN) Growing up in Minneapolis, Alisa Clare Cohen constantly wondered whether her birth parents in Chile really abandoned her. Nearly four decades passed before she learned the truth. “The story that I was told was that my (biological) family had essentially never meant to keep me,” Cohen said. Her now-deceased adopted parents, Sheila and Steve …
Scores of Children Illegally Adopted
Dr. Irene Creedon took in babies from vulnerable mothers at her surgery She allowed adoptive parents to register children as their own Operations uncovered by mother-of-two when she began tracing her birth A well-known family doctor arranged scores of illicit and illegal adoptions across the nation over at least two decades, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Dr. Irene …
The ‘orphan’ I adopted from Uganda already had a family – CNN
“CNN investigation has uncovered children purposely being orphaned, Mothers thinking they are temporarily giving up their children to be educated, instead, they’re sold to adoptive families who think they are taking an orphan in need.” Anderson Cooper For original CNN investigational report, visit here. Adam and I thoroughly researched at each step of the process in the hopes of ensuring …
Death of toddler adopted from India prompts calls to end intercountry adoptions — Reuters
Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The death in Texas of a three-year-old girl adopted from India a year ago has prompted renewed calls for an end to international adoptions, which campaigners say put vulnerable children at risk of abuse. The girl’s adoptive father, Wesley Mathews, was charged on Monday with injury to a child, a first-degree felony that …
Inter-Country Adoption Racket Exposed!
For tourists the pediatric ward resembled a supermarket When a DNA database is created it was certain that our papers were fraud, because through DNA we have the proof of family ties. Sometimes these contact persons say I have located your mother, but they don’t reveal the address. The adoption agencies from western countries treated me as a …
African Children being sold to U.S. families — CNN report
The Davises shared their story exclusively with CNN, saying they believe that Ugandan children like Mata are being trafficked, with American families not knowing the real stories behind their adoptions. An investigation by CNN into this alleged trafficking scheme found that children are being taken from their homes in Uganda on the promise of better schooling, placed into orphanages even …
3-Year-Old adopted child from India Missing Since Saturday
FBI Evidence Team Now at Home of Missing 3-Year-Old The search is continuing for the child, who was reportedly last seen by her father, 37-year-old Wesley Mathews, at about 3 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Sunningdale in Richardson. An Amber Alert was discontinued Monday afternoon, because there has been no new information in the case, but authorities said …
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.
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostA Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family
Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostI’m looking for you MUM!!
Hi, my name is Rossella Carrara Hürlemann and I’m looking for my biological parents. I was born in Peru. Rossella was adopted 44 years ago and wants to find biological parents. She lives in Germany, has three daughters, and says that at six months she was given up for adoption to an Italian woman. She says that since she was …
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. …
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, …
They Took Us Away From Our Mom.
“They came marching right in and literally took us and thousands of other children from their homes.” The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”. Toward the end of the 19th century, the US took thousands of Native American children and enrolled them in off-reservation boarding schools, stripping them of their …
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostBlood Memory Documentary
A Story of Removal and Return Blood Memory Website here.
Al Jazeera: Canada’s Dark Secret
Al Jazeera | Canada’s Dark Secret | Featured Documentary “In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant “Canadian” culture. Over more than a century, tens of thousands of families have torn …
A Chilean Adoptee intends to initiate the legal process after scandal
Now the criticism is growing among adoptees from Chile. Tommy Leite is one of those who sees himself as a victim of human trafficking after SVT’s and Chilean journalists’ review. He demands that those responsible be held accountable and now plans to initiate a legal process. We meet Tommy Leite at his adoptive parents’ home in an apartment in central …
Children Stolen for Adoption from Guatemala
https://adoptionland.org/9828/lets-talk-adoption-2/ Did you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans, but have been given the label….
Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption
“FORGET YOUR SON”: BRAZIL IS FORCIBLY TAKING INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND PUTTING THEM UP FOR ADOPTION Élida smiled when I asked for an interview, but she was hesitant to allow her youngest child to leave her lap as we recorded. As a researcher, I had prepared to attend the sixth annual Kuñangue Aty, a large gathering of women from the Kaiowá …
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 …
Meet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
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.
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostFor 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, …
A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family
Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.
They Took Us Away From Our Mom.
“They came marching right in and literally took us and thousands of other children from their homes.” The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”. Toward the end of the 19th century, the US took thousands of Native American children and enrolled them in off-reservation boarding schools, stripping them of their …
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.
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. …
#SorryJungIn
Abusive Adoptive Parents: The Case of Jung In & Why BTS’s Jimin Apologized #정인아_미안해 #SorryJungin #Jimin Ever wondered what Korean adopted people are saying today about adoption? This is a powerful and important read for all. The adoptee voice is all too often silenced, and it can literally be life or death for some to be heard and seen.” – Claire, Amazon …
Holt Children’s Services Takes Heat in Abuse Death Case
#SorryJungin The Last Letter to Jungin #SorryJungin 정인이에게 보내는 우리의 마지막 편지 (The Last Letter to Jungin)ㅣ그알PICK SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) — Children’s rights activists on Thursday urged the health ministry to look into the role, if any, of a major adoption agency in the death of a 16-month-old adoptee. At a press conference near Cheong Wa Dae, the activists, …
Exposing India’s Illegal Baby Trade – Journeyman
“I wept. I tried to hang myself, so I could die. Everything was pointless without my kids. I swallowed medicines, drank kerosene oil. I was admitted to a hospital for a month. Then I swallowed pills, so I could die.” recalls Sunama. She didn’t know where they were, or if they were even alive. Sunama grieved, hoped, and lost hope …
Children for Sale – Vice International
“Children shouldn’t serve a couple’s need to have a baby.”
A Chilean Adoptee intends to initiate the legal process after scandal
Now the criticism is growing among adoptees from Chile. Tommy Leite is one of those who sees himself as a victim of human trafficking after SVT’s and Chilean journalists’ review. He demands that those responsible be held accountable and now plans to initiate a legal process. We meet Tommy Leite at his adoptive parents’ home in an apartment in central …
When 6700 children were adopted from India to Sweden, irregularities may have occurred
Swedish authorities failed to ensure compliance with rules. Now an independent investigation and government grants are required for adopted people who want to search for their roots. Due to recent reporting in international and Swedish media such as Sweden’s Television concerning unethical adoptions from Chile and Sri Lanka to Sweden, we set aside from India the question: What is happening now? Over the …
A Daughter’s Journey
Follow the twists and turns of an inter-country adoptee from Zimbabwe to Australia, looking for answers.
Meet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Susan Lohan: Philomena Cheered by Stars While the State Turns Deaf Ear
THE ‘real’ Philomena Lee, subject of the film Philomena, deserves the admiration and thanks of Ireland’s forgotten adopted people and their natural mothers for her undaunting campaign to have this dark chapter of our history highlighted. Thanks to the determination of this dignified 80-year-old lady, her daughter Jane, writer Martin Sixsmith, film producer Steve Coogan and movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, …
Adoption Trafficking Presentation CCARHT 2021
Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert Arun Dohle. 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.
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
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 …
A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family
Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.
Meet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Babies for Sale: South Koreans Makes Them, Americans Buys Them
Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them by Matthew Rothschild The Progressive, January 1988 Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory …
BLUE BAYOU – Coming Soon!
An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and step-dad to …
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.
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostFor 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, …
They Took Us Away From Our Mom.
“They came marching right in and literally took us and thousands of other children from their homes.” The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”. Toward the end of the 19th century, the US took thousands of Native American children and enrolled them in off-reservation boarding schools, stripping them of their …
The book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostWe Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostMeet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Adoption Trafficking Presentation CCARHT 2021
Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert Arun Dohle. Read his contribution in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, Chapter, “I Can Never Forget“.
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.
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostFor 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, …
A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family
Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.
How I Survived Adoption.
We offer global news on adoption based on the stories of families separated by adoption. The website was initiated in 2014 in conjunction with the anthology, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, the first book to address issues that adoption agencies were too afraid to face or trying to hide–the families left behind and individuals adopted. Who are we? We are …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostMeet Me on the Bridge
Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. “My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge in Hangzhou in 10 or …
BLUE BAYOU – Coming Soon!
An official selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival from award-winning writer/director Justin Chon, Blue Bayou is the moving and timely story of a uniquely American family fighting for their future. Antonio LeBlanc (Chon), a Korean adoptee raised in a small town in the Louisiana bayou, is married to the love of his life Kathy (Alicia Vikander), and step-dad to …
Adoption Trafficking Presentation CCARHT 2021
Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT) Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert Arun Dohle. Read his contribution in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, Chapter, “I Can Never Forget“.
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.
The Crime of Adoption
SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
View PostCanada’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 …
A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family
Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.