What is the true cost of adoption?

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How much does an adoption cost? The average cost of an adoption is $30,000 maybe even up to $50,000 and is billion dollar business. The price of a newborn baby runs to tens of thousands. covering the costs of agencies, legal fees, and covering the costs of the mother.  Louis Theroux meets a family paying out huge amounts of money in the …

BBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine

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It was front-page news around the world when a mass grave was discovered at a Mother and Baby Home in Ireland. The remains of almost 800 babies were found. But research by Paul Redmond showed that this was only “the tip of the iceberg”. He collected evidence of high death rates at homes for illegitimate children across Ireland and also …

‘I was looking for my mother but found my twin instead’

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By Shaili Bhatt BBC News Gujarati “The first time I saw my brother, I just froze. “I couldn’t say anything. We sat down on the sofa in his house. There was silence. Then I started to cry. “The first words he said to me were ‘don’t cry’. Then he took my hand. Everyone who was there cried as well. It …

Hold the adoption agencies and authorities responsible for unethical adoptions

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The adoption scandal in Chile has made Swedish media pay attention to the more complex aspects of adoption and finally, people are being made aware of the fact that many adoptions were carried through unethically. It ranges from discrepancies in the documents, lack of information and coercion of first parents to downright kidnapping and trafficking. We demand of the Swedish …

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 …