Intercountry adoptee, Patrick Noordoven, has successfully been granted some justice for his illegal adoption!

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Intercountry adoptee, Patrick Noordoven, has successfully been granted some justice for his illegal adoption! Patrick Noordoven is an inspiration for his persistence to fight for his right to identity and break new ground in an area that until now, had remained impossible for many intercountry adoptees! This outcome is historical and paves the way for other intercountry adoptees! Visit here …

Korean Adoptee Reunites With Her Mother

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Melissa Konomos had always felt a longing to connect with her parents and to understand why she had been placed for adoption. She spent seven years searching for her mother until she received the call that they had found her mother and that she wanted to meet. This is the story of Melissa’s journey and the challenges that come with …

Real Parents Don’t Celebrate Adoption

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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about adoption.  Books by Janine Myung Ja. Although adoption may appear legal or follow certain bureaucracy, this does not make the adoption ethical according to many parents-of-loss, and long-lost 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 …

Adoption Lobby

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“One has to understand why these programs are made.  This is done by an adoption agency that first needs money, and this kind of emotions obviously brings a lot of money.  With this money, one can open children’s homes.  First, with donations homes will be built. Then children will be lured into them away from their families.  At the end …

Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption

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“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 …