Adoption Scams in the United States

Baby Brokers: Adoption Scams in the United States

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Private Adoptions in the United States: What Adoption Profiteers Don’t Want You to Know A web of consultants, facilitators, and other middlemen have made private adoption a lucrative business. But the profit motives can leave mothers feeling coerced, and nationwide, a lack of regulation creates opportunities for exploitation. In partnership with TIME, this Newsy report shows the murky world of …

The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions

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South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …

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Madonna Investigated for Human Trafficking of Her Adopted Children

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Visit here for Against Child Trafficking’s Achievements. Against Child Trafficking was founded in 2008, and since then, we have, among other things, helped challenge Madonna in Court in Malawi, blocked the toxic “European Adoption Policy,” challenged the Hague Adoption Convention, exposed the intercountry adoption industry in Ethiopia, and highlighted illegal practices in India. Against Child Trafficking: Category – Madonna Executive …

Holt International Adoption Agency in Seoul Korea

Court Orders Holt to Compensate Crapser for Overseas Adoption

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A local court has ordered Holt Children’s Services to pay compensation to a South Korean adoptee who was illegally sent overseas despite having biological parents in the country. The Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday sided with the plaintiff, 48-year-old Adam Crapser, born Shin Song-hyuk, ordering the agency to pay 100 million won, or 75-thousand U.S. dollars, plus delayed interest. …

Tyler Graf, returns to his homeland and find out he was stolen from his mother in Chile at birth.

Tyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium

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Tyler Graf and fellow panelists at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium. Adopted? Your opinion matters. Fill out the survey here. What are adult adoptees saying about adoption today? Hear the stories from across the nation and overseas, representing the U.S., First Nations, India, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Haiti, New Zealand, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, and Colombia for an all-day private event …