Korean Adoptees Request to Stop International Adoptions from South Korea

Adoption: South Koreans Makes Them and Americans Buys Them

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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 is called Ae Ran Won, and it is one of a dozen homes for unmarried women in South Korea. Ae Ran Won can hold fifty pregnant women in its ten rooms, but when I was there in November, it had only thirty-five.

BLUE BAYOU - Official Trailer - Only in Theaters September 17 Written by Justin Chon

BLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon

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Read about both Monte Haines and Adam Crapser’s adoption stories: Want to know the true-life stories of deported adoptees from Seoul, South Korea? If you watched Justin Chon’s film titled Blue Bayou, you should know the background history of not only deported adoptees, like Adam Crapser and Monte Haines but the typical childhood narratives of adoptees like them. his collection, compiled …

Susan Lohan: Philomena Cheered by Stars While the State Turns Deaf Ear

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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, …

Against Child Trafficking - Arun Dohle

Adoption Trafficking Presentation

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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“.

Forced Adoption The Scottish Parliament Monica Lennon

History Forced Adoptions, Monica Lennon

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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”