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We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!

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DO YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT AGAINST AN ADOPTION AGENCY? Although adoption may appear legal or follow certain bureaucracy, this does not make the adoption ethical according to many parents-of-loss, and [birth] families within the local and global community. Adoption agencies tend to blame the victims to keep the attention off of their own unethical activities. Also, when entering foreign countries, …

I’m looking for you MUM!!

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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.

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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. …

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Mother Reunites With Her Daughter After 42 Years Of Searching for Her | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN

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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 …