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It was front-page news around the world when a mass grave was discovered at a Mother and Baby Home in Ireland. The remains of almost 800 babies were found. But research by Paul Redmond showed that this was only “the tip of the iceberg”. He collected evidence of high death rates at homes for illegitimate children across Ireland and also …
by Samuel Thomi – Northwestern Switzerland The officials Switzerland knew already in the early 1980s of irregularities in adoptions of babies from Sri Lanka. Swiss adoptee-led association “Back to the Roots,” asks for immediate action by the Swiss government: English translation: After Canton of St.Gallen admits to illegal adoption practices, victims’ representatives call for federal and cantonal support. The conclusion …
Social workers in Chile have pressed mothers to leave their children. Sometimes they have been told that the children were born dead. This is what we call more than deficiencies in the review, this is human trafficking, writes Maria Diemar and Tommy Leite from the group chileadoption.se. OPINION In Chile, judge Mario Carroza investigates about 500 cases of what he suspects are …
Global adoption is a big business, fraught with loose regulations and profit incentives that have made it a target for kidnappers, human traffickers, and pedophiles. Despite regulations on international adoptions, and with some countries even banning all foreign adoptions, the problem has continued. Kidnappers continue to fuel the trade, and adoption agencies continue to skirt the laws. “What I stumbled …
The adoption scandal in Chile has made Swedish media pay attention to the more complex aspects of adoption and finally, people are being made aware of the fact that many adoptions were carried through unethically. It ranges from discrepancies in the documents, lack of information and coercion of first parents to downright kidnapping and trafficking. We demand of the Swedish …
