How do you know if you adopted a real orphan or a kidnapped child?

Adoptionland NewsAdoption Trafficking, Excerpts, Featured

China: 200,000 children abducted and sold yearly Around 200,000 children disappear every year, only 0.1% found back, “According to various different statistics, in China the incomplete statistical figure of disappeared children every year is about 200,000. “Those found and returned roughly account for only 0.1% of the figure. “Behind the figure of disappeared children, there are stories of various different …

Adopted girl wins right to return to biological family after abuse

Adoptionland NewsExcerpts, Rights

‘Highly exceptional’ ruling allows 14-year-old who was abused by adoptive couple’s relatives to revert to legal status of birth family A 14-year-old girl has won a “highly exceptional” legal ruling that revokes an adoption order made more than 10 years ago. The teenager was also given the go-ahead by a high court judge in London to change her surname to …

An executive order to restore original birth certificates to adult adoptees by enacting the Adoptees Restoration Act

Adoptionland NewsExcerpts, Featured, Rights

For the President to enact an executive order which would restore the Original Birth Certificate to every adult adoptee in America in one fell swoop because it is a civil and constitutional right! Petition Background For almost an entire century, adopted adults have been denied access to their medical history, their culture, their genealogy and ancestry and the answer to …

Why did an adoption agency tell Angelina Jolie I had died of AIDS when they gave her my baby?

Adoptionland NewsAdoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Excerpts

By STEPHEN BEVAN, November 25, 2007 Her credentials as a caring superstar could hardly be bettered. Angelina Jolie, a mother of four, is as famous for her well-publicized adoptions of children from Third World countries as she is for her Oscar-winning movies and marriage to Brad Pitt. As a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees for the …

Against Child Trafficking

Chennai couple’s last-ditch effort to meet kidnapped daughter adopted in Australia 14 years ago

Adoptionland NewsAdoption Trafficking, Excerpts

The last time Fatima saw her two year-old daughter Zabeen in the flesh was in 1998 when she was playing with her four year-old brother Hussain outside a tea shop near their house in Washermanpet in Chennai. Sixteen years down the line, Zabeen now lives over 7000 kilometres away in Australia under a different name with her Australian adoptive parents. …