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The ‘Speak up for South Korea’s waiting Children’ youtube video was made by an adoption agency’s CEO and a Korean Pastor in hopes of encouraging American’s support of gaining more children for international adoption. This is a response video to them. Agencies should not be allowed to label children as “orphans” unless the agency can provide proof with the death …
When we revealed the agony of mothers made to give up their babies, the response from readers was huge – and heartbreaking. Susan Smith, 61, Lancaster The stigma and devastation still haunt me, at the age of 61. I was 13 when I got pregnant in 1967, and my boyfriend was 14. Neither of us had any idea what we’d …
From 1924 through 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, from a stately home on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. She used it as a front for an illegal foundling home and adoption agency that placed over 5,000 newborn infants and children, from toddlers up to age 16, to sell to what she called “high type” families in …
Interview in 2015 from the Riley Blog: At this year’s Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) Summit, David Smolin, Law Professor, was invited along as the “critic” of the movement to take part in one of the breakout sessions between him and Jedd Medicind, President of CAFO. The session lasted one hour and both Jedd and David had equal amounts of …
