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(Former) Washington State Senator Paull Shin, French digital economy minister Fleur Pellerin and French Senator Jean-Vincent Place. They all have something in common. All three are Korean adoptees who have become successes in their adopted countries. Behind the success stories of those people, however, are others who suffer emotional distress after being adopted by foreign parents. Adoptees’ rights activists say …
For Adam’s narrative on the adoption experience, see here: Amazon “If I could say anything to politicians, I would beg them–implore them–to please amend the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 so that those of us who were adopted as children before then but were not granted US citizenship–would finally be covered. Please do this for my children, so they don’t …
Adam Crapser, a Korean American adoptee who was placed in deportation proceedings at the beginning of 2015, was placed in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma Washington by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on February 8, 2016. READ Latest News here – Adam Crapser to be Deported Adam was adopted from a Korean orphanage by U.S. citizen parents at age three, …
As tourism has boomed in Bali, it has had a strange side-effect, doubling the number of orphanages on the island in 20 years. Tourists’ donations keep the orphanages going – but some are effectively rackets, exploiting children and holidaymakers alike. I met Pam and Samantha, an Australian mother and daughter who had traveled all the way from Perth, with a …
