We want all adopters from Chile to be reviewed

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Social workers in Chile have pressed mothers to leave their children. Sometimes they have been told that the children were born dead. This is what we call more than deficiencies in the review, this is human trafficking, writes Maria Diemar and Tommy Leite from the group chileadoption.se. OPINION In Chile, judge Mario Carroza investigates about 500 cases of what he suspects are …

Child Trafficking Through International Adoption Continues Despite Regulations

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Global adoption is a big business, fraught with loose regulations and profit incentives that have made it a target for kidnappers, human traffickers, and pedophiles. Despite regulations on international adoptions, and with some countries even banning all foreign adoptions, the problem has continued. Kidnappers continue to fuel the trade, and adoption agencies continue to skirt the laws. “What I stumbled …

I never consented for my son to be adopted

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I appeal for your good heart with understanding and compassion for the pain and anguish I feel as a father who has been unjustly kept away from my son. I hope that you can find it in your heart to empathize and agree to my request. Went to Malaysia after residing in Singapore from 2010 till 2015. Had a relationship …

We Demand an Independent Review of Adoption

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Earlier, 92 adoptees from Chile wrote about unethical adoptions from that same country. They are not the only ones. Today, 40 Colombian adoptees are coming together, sharing that the unethical adoptions were not limited to Chile. Recently, we witnessed how 92 adult adoptees from Chile started questioning what is to come after they found out that several of the adoptions …

A search warrant to the adoption agency, Holt Child Welfare Foundation

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A SEARCH WARRANT TO THE ADOPTION AGENCY, HOLT CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION “Police find 22 missing children and disabled people with 100 days intensive investigation (Seoul-Yonhap News) Kwon, Yeong-jeon, a police officer, has conducted a 100-day intensive investigation into children and disabled persons who have been missing for over a year. The National Police Agency said on July 4 that a …