Politics & Law They Steal Babies, Don’t They?

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Ethiopia, the Hague, and the rise and fall of international adoption. An exclusive investigation of internal U.S. State Department documents describing how humanitarian adoptions metastasized into a mini-industry shot through with fraud, becoming a source of income for unscrupulous orphanages, government officials, and shady operators—and was then reined back in through diplomacy, regulation, and a brand-new federal law.    E.J. Graff  …

Adoptionland: Brutal essays by adult adoptees expose the truth of intercountry adoption

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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 …

Now 70 Women Say Their Babies May Have Been Taken from them at Homer G. Phillips

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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Some 70 women have come forward in less than 24 hours to tell St. Louis city officials they fear their babies were taken from them at birth and then given away. Jaqueline Butler called our newsroom to tell us her story about the birth of her daughter, “If she’s alive I would love to be united …

Ugandan woman’s agony as granddaughter ‘sold’ to Americans

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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 …

Foreigners exploiting law loophole to adopt, say Ugandan MPs

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Kampala (AFP) – Uganda MPs have raised fresh concerns that hundreds of children have left the country through “dubious circumstances” as a result of foreigners working with local lawyers to exploit a loophole in the law, allowing them to be adopted.  Last September, an official report said a boom in Uganda’s “international adoption industry” had led to some children who …