Harry Holt the Godfather of Holt International Adoption Agency

Who are Harry and Bertha Holt?

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The Couple Behind Korean International Adoption: Saints or Sinners? You Decide. A Brief Historical Overview of the Life and Times of Harry and Bertha Holt and the Origin of International Adoption. 1954-1955: Discovering Amerasian Children Bertha Marian Holt was born in 1905 to Clifford and Eva Holt. She married Harry Holt, a first cousin (Mark Baker, 2006), on December 31, …

Adoptees Sold by Nuns Worldwide

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Nun’s Habits in Spain It started with a whisper in Spain. A Catholic nun was charged for the first time with abducting a baby from an unwed mother which was sold to a childless couple. Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena told the mother that the baby had died at first, later admitting that it had been adopted. There had been whispers …

Adoption Politics

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the untold story of the Romanian ‘ orphans’ gives an insider’s look into the adoption kitchen, where the most used ingredients are political pressure and emotional blackmail. Post kept a diary on her work for the European Commission that aimed to help Romania reform its child protection. She soon found out that the intercountry adoption system in place was nothing …