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HATO MAYOR DEL REY, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC—Miguel and Rosa Ramirez’s shack is located at the end of an isolated road in the interior of the Dominican Republic. It is far away from the scenes found on postcards, in the middle of nowhere. A piece of plywood is nailed to the narrow facade of the shack. Miguel has scribbled an address in …
Support for inter-country adoption appears to have taken on a religious fervour. But in a world where families are targeted by recruiters and children are bought and stolen, reunification and in-country options must be considered first. Patricia Fronek writes. Imagine for one moment your child went missing. Surely you would expect no stone to be left unturned to find your …
Last year German based adoption-activist Arun Dohle was handed a file of a young Australian woman who wanted to find her birth family in India. Years of searching had proved fruitless up until then. Mr Dohle sent the brief to his Indian colleague Anjali Pawar. With scant details, just the name of the village and the birth date, Ms Pawar …
Kriste Hughes has wondered about her birth parents since she was a teenager. But it was years later that she learned her adoption was far from typical — a doctor in Georgia essentially sold her to her adoptive parents. For Hughes, who is now 51, finding a sibling or even a relative, “would make me feel like I’ve found a …
The High Court has stopped two Swedish couples and a Danish couple from taking three Kenyan children out of the country. This was after it was discovered that the minors were not abandoned orphans but had families. Consequently, the court ordered the adoption proceedings stopped until an application filed by their birth families determined. Issuing the order on Friday, vacation …