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Hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were systematically and often violently separated from their babies simply because of their marital status. Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments funded draconian adoption policies that harmed unmarried mothers across Canada. This is being referred to by scholars as the “adoption mandate” or the “Baby Scoop …
Compiled by the Vance Twins, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, is an indispensable contribution to adoption literature. The essays, poems and letters in this compilation reflect the thoughts, the feelings, the souls of those who inhabit AdoptionLand — a place of truth and acceptance for the casualties of the demand for children. “I feel like a stolen heart from a corpse, …
By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …
SYRACUSE, NY – Forty-eight boxes on wooden pallets take up a space 15 yards long and six yards wide in the basement of lawyer Robert Lahm’s office building in Syracuse. Inside them are about 1,000 files carrying information about Central New Yorkers who were adopted over the past 20 years – their medical histories, their adoptive parents’ finances, and in …
Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico have been left devastated by the affair, they said tonight. While the lawyer at the centre of the baby trafficking plot remains on the run, the families who returned home last weekend have insisted they believed they were acting legally. Offices belonging to the Lopez Y Lopez firm …
