Grandmothers protest worst ever stealing of Australian Aboriginal children

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Aboriginal grandmothers(link is external) have protested to Australian politicians about the increasing removal of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed in homes or with foster families, many of them non-Indigenous. Grandmothers were among about 100 Indigenous protesters who marched from the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra to parliament house on Friday, 13 February. In 2008, then [Labor] prime minister, Kevin …

Stolen babies, Stolen Lives, Spanish Justice Served Cold

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Stolen from their mothers at birth, sold to be brought up by another. We meet Juani and Paloma, two Spanish women caught up in Spain’s scandal of stolen babies. They’re among many struggling to come to terms with crimes done to them and their biological parents decades ago. Advocates say there were thousands of false adoptions, beginning during the Franco …

Living with Dead Hearts: Chinese Missing Kids

CHINA: Illustrates Tragedy of Child Abductions

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In a country where many families are allowed only one child, the notion that one’s son or daughter could be abducted and sold feels almost impossibly horrible. And yet, as a new documentary makes clear, it happens in China with stunning frequency. “Most foreigners don’t know this is happening at all,” says Charlie Custer, a blogger who co-produced and directed …

Mom: “I screamed and cried and watched them take my child away”

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MOBILE, AL (WALA) – Kimberly Rossler says the most traumatizing experience of her life happened less than a month after she delivered her baby. Rossler gave birth to James Elliot Rossler in May, but three weeks later, she said Sheriff’s deputies were knocking on her door to take the baby from her. “They let me finish breastfeeding him, and I put him in …

China’s Hidden Children

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Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2016 Will Publish March 2016    In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States.  It’s generally assumed that this diaspora …