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Gift of Hope

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No parent should ever have their child stolen to meet the intercountry-adoption market demand. Through our Family Reunification Program, you can help bring together parents with their taken children. In most cases, the children are adults by the time they have learned the truth about their origin. Gift of Hope supports the most vulnerable families targeted by adoption traffickers. Your …

Adoption: Is it about the Money?

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Child ‘protection’ is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. A recent CDC study, The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention, found the total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of cases associated with child protection services is approximately $124 billion. [1] …

Adoption disruptions a secretive, misunderstood trend

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It’s a dark and secretive adoption trend that parents are afraid to admit to, agencies don’t like to talk about, but experts say is happening more than we know: adoption disruptions, in which desperate couples put their adopted children up for adoption … again. “I think adoption disruptions are far more prevalent than the few cases reported,” says Karen Moline, an adoption reform advocate. “In Canada, in …

Why Do Black Babies Cost Less To Adopt?

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Americans adopt thousands of children each year. And as the nation has become increasingly diverse, and with the growth of international adoption in recent decades, many of those children don’t look like their adoptive parents. That intersection of race and adoption has prompted many people to submit their six words to The Race Card Project, including this submission from a …

Chinese Adoptions and Rehoming

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Internet ‘Rehoming’: The Dark Side of International Adoptions They call it “adopting from disruption,” and you can find forums and mailing lists devoted to the topic across the Internet—everywhere from Facebook to until recently, Yahoo Groups. “My husband and I have never actually visited another country to adopt a child. Yet, our family includes Russian, Ethiopian, and Mexican born children,” …