She’ll get US citizenship 60 years after being adopted, but thousands more must still wait

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In January, after 13 months in limbo, Ella Purkiss was finally granted survivor benefits from her deceased husband. She says if it had taken even one month longer she would have been evicted from her trailer home in Pahrump, Nevada. Next Friday, after 60 years of living in the US, she will finally be granted American citizenship. Purkiss, 62, was …

Myka Stauffer rehomes inter-country adoptee from China

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Adoption Disruption, Abandonment, Trauma… As I’m sure many of you know I’m a strong-minded individual who values the voices of adoptees and to know that a YouTube Influencer and her hubby (Myka and James Stauffer) decided to showcase their lives so the world could witness their flashy dashy ways…I’m shaking my head hard. For all the Huxley’s of the world, …

India/Denmark Adoption Trafficking

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A lot went wrong in the adoptions of the 70s and 80s. At the time, adoptive children from both India, Bangladesh, and China were brought to the Netherlands without the knowledge of their parents. The children’s papers were also tampered with.  It has, therefore, become very complicated for them to find their biological family.  But what was the role and …

Adopter sentenced to life in prison for the death of the 3-year-old girl he adopted from India.

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Wesley Mathews, the father of his adopted child Sherin Mathews – who was three years old when she was found dead in 2017 in Texas, was sentenced to life in prison by a jury last week, after he pled guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child by omission.