Rehoming: Dan Rather Reports

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“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …

Out of 30 adopted Ethiopians, 9 of them are homeless in Seattle

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Adopted from Ethiopia, Hana found dead in her back yard, bruises on her body where she was beaten and her adoptive parents starved her to death.  Adoption Advocates International (AAI) based in Seattle is closed now.  Many of the adoptions from AAI the Ethiopian children are homeless.  Unfortunately when their is no supervision or regulations after the children are placed, …

Your baby is dead: Mothers say their supposedly stillborn babies were stolen from them

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This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an injection. She blacked out, and when she started to come to, a male voice said: “knock her out.” She claimed she woke up sometime later and …

Indian Adoption Era: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

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This is a work sample trailer of the research and development footage for Blood Memory, a feature-length documentary film exploring the Indian Adoption Era and the controversial role of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). For full website visit here. Adoptionland.org provide current (and past) issues in adoption. We offer a deeper and wider description of adoption as opposed to …

Father Begins Legal Fight To Get Infant Back From Adoptive Parents

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LOGAN — Utah’s controversial laws regarding a father’s rights in adoption procedures are in the spotlight again. On Friday, a 20-year-old man who claims he just lost his newborn daughter to an unwanted adoption began the legal fight to get her back.The attorney hired by Colby Nielsen called a press conference Friday afternoon to make his arguments to the public, …