Ethiopian government to ban child adoption by foreigners

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borkena, Ethiopian News October 12,2017 Ethiopian parliament is to review draft Ethiopian family law which will make it impossible for foreigners to adopt a child from Ethiopia, reported Ethiopian Reporter. The review is predicated on “widespread case of identity crisis that children adopted by foreign families face and based on the premise that foreign families could not offer relatable family environment …

Inter-Country Adoption Racket Exposed!

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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

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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 …

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3-Year-Old adopted child from India Missing Since Saturday

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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 …

Canada to Pay Millions in Indigenous Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions

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By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world. On Friday, the Canadian government took a step to make amends for that adoption program, which began in the 1960s and lasted till the 1980s, by agreeing to pay …