Media Contact: Info@AdoptionHistory.org
Fatima and Salya are the parents of four children. In 1998, one of them, then two-year-old was kidnapped then sold to a corrupt adoption agency that forged records to make it appear she had been abandoned. She was adopted by a family in Queensland, Australia. Indian police uncovered the scam in 2005 and arrested the child-stealers who provided details of …
ICA is largely the response to a demand for children in developed countries rather than to absence of care in the countries of origin. Taking children away does not lead to any improvement of the protection of children in those countries but rather the contrary. (Chou and Browne, 2008) Inter-country adoption (ICA) occupies a very marginal place within the UNCRC. …
“Parents are targeted by recruiters and children are bought or stolen or sold.” ‘Millions of children in overseas orphanages … would dearly love to have parents’, claims Tony Abbott, and his government is making intercountry adoption easier. Screenshot/Intercountry Adoption Australia Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be …
With news that Vietnam is once again going to allow their children to be adopted out of country, reading a collection of essays by people who were uprooted and transplanted into new cultures is ice water on all those squishy ideals of what intercountry (or international adoption) does. The writers whose essays come together in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists …
By Katy Migiro and Tom Esslemont KAMPALA/LONDON, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The first time Jaja, a Ugandan woman, saw her one-year-old granddaughter, she was in the arms of an American man who she was told had “bought” the child. The toddler was sitting with the man and his wife, eating biscuits and drinking juice, as they sought legal …
