Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption

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“FORGET YOUR SON”: BRAZIL IS FORCIBLY TAKING INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND PUTTING THEM UP FOR ADOPTION Élida smiled when I asked for an interview, but she was hesitant to allow her youngest child to leave her lap as we recorded. As a researcher, I had prepared to attend the sixth annual Kuñangue Aty, a large gathering of women from the Kaiowá …

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Closed Adoptions: A Form of Violence

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“The era of closed adoption is not behind us yet, not by a long shot, however that urgently needs to change.” A team of scholars says the legal practice of closed adoption raised “disconnected” people and is a form of violence. The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming …

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

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“We are the parents of the missing children. …I am a parent of a missing child. I don’t know where she is. I’ve had a reunion. I’ve seen her for five minutes in 32 years. I don’t know where she is.” Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

It’s Time to Reassess Adoption

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To whom it may concern: Please consider reassessing the practice of adoption. For every family created by adoption, another family is forever torn For every baby sent overseas today, his/her identity is forever altered thereafter. Against Child Trafficking specifically, addresses child trafficking. Processing children reap the highest payouts, sometimes surpassing $60 – $70,000 per child. All other trafficking focuses on …

Being called ‘anti-adoption’?

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Back home, I started to question the way babies were obtained for adoption. During the process of researching and writing, I tried to remain as neutral as possible and gave the facilitators the benefit of the doubt (even giving them my trust) over the course of full decade of reflection and study. I truly believed that they were saints and …