When Alisha was returned to us, it was as if gold had been laid at our feet.

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This is Alisha’s Story     “Some people came and said they could provide good education.”  Alisha’s mother said. Alisha’s father thought his daughter had been adopted abroad or had died.  He had lost hope. “It’s often difficult to locate the parents. We travel to remote places.  Even when we find the parents, they do not recognize their children and …

Church says sorry over forced adoptions

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The Catholic Church in Australia has issued a national apology over past adoption practices that have been described as a “national disgrace”. The apology was prompted by an ABC investigation into claims of abuse and trauma in Newcastle. It is believed at least 150,000 Australian women had their babies taken against their will by some churches and adoption agencies between …

Filmmaker Was Documenting Abuses in CPS and Children Murdered under State Custody Before He Died

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Health Impact News Editor Comments In 2009, Bill Bowen released a trailer for a documentary film he was producing exposing the corruption within Child Protection Services across the United States. The film is called Innocence Destroyed. Bill Bowen died unexpectedly the next year, in 2010, reportedly from a heart attack, before he was able to finish the film. The segments …

Christian World Adoption (CWA)

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2009 special report on Ethiopian child adoption agencies and how they exploit Ethiopian children and families. “This is Tegene, he’s a little abandoned child,”  says the presenter on Christian World Adoption’s DVD catalogue of orphans. On the other side of the world, Lisa Boe fell in love. She adopted Tegene, who one day identified his real ‘mom’ in a photograph. …

Fly Away Home

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How does it feel for a child, who already has a family, to be adopted by strangers never to go back home? Here’s the harrowing reality behind the practices of some international adoption agencies. Journee Bradshaw was already 13 and came from a large, middle-class Ethiopian family when she arrived in the US. She thought she was going on a …