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By ARON HELLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS The stories have been circulating in Israel for decades: Newborn babies and young children of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries mysteriously disappeared shortly after arriving in the country, purportedly snatched away and given to childless couples of European backgrounds. Although a series of inquiries have dismissed claims of abductions, the accusations of a conspiracy have lingered. …
By Kim Jae-won Pastor Kim Do-hyun is helping adoptees find their biological parents through DNA testing. He said that the tests will change the way adoptees search for their origins, which has so far relied on poorly kept documents from adoption agencies. “We call the DNA test the game changer because we expect this to make a difference in adoptees …
Children taken under guise of one-child policy and sent to be adopted abroad By Anthony Germain, CBC News. Forty-seven year old Yang Li Bing puffs on a cigarette as he shuffles through photos of a daughter he hasn’t seen in seven years. “After she was taken in 2004, I could hardly sleep and I asked my wife if we could have …
Monte Haines was born in 1970 in Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa through Holt International. Contributor of The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now, Monte was born in 1970 in South Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa in 1978 through Holt International on an IR-4 visa. His …
