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# Global Adoption News

Voices of Families Separated by Adoption

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- [Who are Harry and Bertha Holt?](https://adoptionland.org/412/a-critique-of-harry-and-bertha-holts-work-while-setting-up-intercountry-adoption-in-south-korea/) - A Brief Historical Overview of the Life and Times of Harry and Bertha Holt and the origin of International Adoption. 1954-1955 Discovering Amerasian Children...
- [Korea Plans to End International Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/13922/korea-plans-to-end-international-adoptions/) - Korean Adoptees Worldwide Demand an End to the International Adoption Business. S Korea plans to end foreign adoptions as UN urges Seoul to address past abuses.
- [South Korea plans to end foreign adoptions as U.N. urges Seoul to address past abuses](https://adoptionland.org/13917/south-korea-plans-to-end-foreign-adoptions-as-u-n-urges-seoul-to-address-past-abuses/) - South Korea's government said it plans to end its waning foreign adoptions of Korean children, while United Nations investigators voiced "serious concern" over what they described as Seoul's failure to ensure truth-finding and reparations for widespread human rights violations tied to decades of mass overseas adoptions.
- [Samoan Adoption Scandal](https://adoptionland.org/1891/samoan-adoption-scandal/) - Between 2002 and 2005, parents in Samoa were tricked by an American adoption agency into giving up their children. They were falsely told that signing their children up for this "program", their children could benefit from an American education; they would receive photographs and regular communication; and the children would return at age eighteen. The adoption
- [About Corrupt Adoptions from Kenya](https://adoptionland.org/13862/about-corrupt-adoptions-from-kenya/) - Articles of Corrupt International Adoptions from Africa.
- [What South Korean Adoptees Are Saying Today About Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/13835/what-south-korean-adoptees-are-saying-today-about-adoption/) - Nearly 250,000 S. Korean children were adopted to the West as “orphans” in the 60+ years following the Korean War. What are Korean Adult Adoptees saying today?
- [The Korean Adoption Crisis](https://adoptionland.org/13880/corrupt-korean-adoptions/) - The history of Korean international adoptions is increasingly viewed not as a humanitarian success story but as a deeply rooted global adoption scandal.
- [How is International Adoption a Human Rights Issue?](https://adoptionland.org/13157/adoption-from-a-human-rights-perspective/) - When most people think about adoption, they think of young children being saved, rescued & sent to loving, forever homes. End of Story, but such is not the case
- [Kenya - Babies for Sale](https://adoptionland.org/2686/kenya-babies-for-sale/) - Many cases of missing children, some barely a few days old, are reported in Kenya. While some eventually end up as cases of kidnapping by ransom seekers, many children are literally sold to buyers seeking a shorter route to child adoption or to traffickers eyeing international child markets. Citizen's TV Michael Njenga went undercover to unmask
- [Netherlands Will No Longer Allow International Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/13451/netherlands-will-no-longer-allow-international-adoptions/) - In the Netherland adoption policies came under scrutiny after increasing numbers of adult adoptees found that their birth documents had been forged, lost, or illegal.
- [International Adoption: A Global Scandal](https://adoptionland.org/13823/a-global-scandal-international-adoptions/) - Western families have adopted over a million orphans, but now are learning many of them are now discovering that they were stolen for international adoption.
- [Holt Children's Services Under Fire For Alleged Sham Adoptions ABC's Eye-Opening Investigation Sparks Outcry](https://adoptionland.org/13360/unveiling-the-truth-holt-childrens-services-under-fire-for-alleged-sham-adoptions-abcs-eye-opening-investigation-sparks-outcry/) - In the decades since the Korean War ended, 200,000 children have been adopted by families worldwide. Now, as adults, many adoptees are coming back, desperate...
- [Betrayed Trust: Holt International's Troubling Associations and Their Impact on Adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/13032/betrayed-trust-holt-internationals-troubling-associations-and-their-impact-on-adoptees/) - In international adoption, Holt International Children Services has long been regarded as a beacon of hope for hopeful adoptive parents seeking loving children.
- [Fraud and Heartbreak Can Plague Adoptions From Africa](https://adoptionland.org/5205/fraud-and-heartbreak-can-plague-adoptions-from-africa/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEeDL70WKOA&ab_channel=NTVUganda Government officials say sometimes parents are told their children will get an education abroad, but the youths are being adopted through shady agencies. KAMPALA, Uganda—When impoverished mother Nakiwala Hasifa signed legal guardianship papers to let a Christian pair from Mississippi have custody of her five-year-old son, Stuart Bukenya, in 2009, she thought she would
- [Newsweek: Number of International Adoptions in U.S. Plummets](https://adoptionland.org/13805/newsweek-number-of-international-adoptions-in-u-s-plummets/) - Victims of adoption trafficking are excited that International adoptions to the United States have fallen to a record low, marking a 94 percent decline since the 2000s.
- [South Korean Adoption Trafficking Meant Babies Were Stolen From Their Families](https://adoptionland.org/13754/south-korean-adoption-trafficking-meant-babies-were-stolen-from-their-families/) - Marketed to the world as orphans, countless babies were forcibly separated from their families and sent abroad to meet the growing demand for adoptable children, often to satisfy Western ideals of charity and salvation,
- [Manipulative Counseling Tactics On How To Give Informed Consent For Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/1516/adoption-lobby-alert-counseling-on-how-to-give-informed-consent-for-intercountry-adoption/) - A disturbing video of the ethical Hague Adoption Convention way to relinquish children. Adoption agencies use the HAC industry stamp of approval to create orphans.
- [Associated Press: Korean Adoption Stories](https://adoptionland.org/13708/associated-press-korean-adoption-stories/) - An investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) finds that fraud – fake paperwork, stolen babies, switched identities - was pervasive throughout a program that sent 200,000 Korean babies for adoption to the West.
- [Why Did You Adopt Me to a Pedophile? In An Unfamiliar Land, as The Only Asian...](https://adoptionland.org/12560/why-did-you-adopt-me-to-a-pedophile-in-an-unfamiliar-land-as-the-only-asian-in-the-village/) - We examine the brutality of overseas adoption in Korea, which has adopted about 250,000 children around the world over the past 60 years, many of who were...
- [Unveiling the Truth in Adoptionland: Vance's Journey to Resilience and Activism](https://adoptionland.org/13342/unveiling-the-truth-in-adoptionland-vances-journey-to-resilience-and-activism/) - Korean-born adoptee's raw journey, struggles, resilience, and activism. Uncover the truth behind intercountry adoption and find empowerment in Adoptionland.
- [Vatican Sent Italian Children to America Labeled as Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/13611/vatican-sent-italian-children-to-america-labelled-as-orphans/) - Unwed mothers in Italy were pressured to give up children born out of wedlock. Thousands were sent to America. Families are reuniting and looking for answers.
- [Paper Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/1772/paper-orphans/) - Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5QiFFxAu4 Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0adJdVBPvto Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsUWaToRWuQ Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Fyy3UY_U0 For more Paper Orphan articles, visit here.
- [Adoption: South Koreans Makes Them and Americans Buys Them](https://adoptionland.org/11728/south-koreans-makes-them-americans-buys-them-by-matthew-rothschild/) - "Just after delivery, the Korean mothers are very upset," says Kim Yong Sook, a social worker, and counselor for Holt Children's Services, an adoption agency...
- [CHINA HALTS FOREIGN OVERSEAS ADOPTION!](https://adoptionland.org/13598/china-halts-foreign-overseas-adoption/) - By The Associated Press BEIJING — The Chinese government is no longer allowing foreign adoptions of the country’s children, a spokesperson said Thursday. The only exception will be for blood relatives adopting a child or a stepchild, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said. She didn’t explain the decision other than to say that it was in
- [Dan Rather Reports: Adopted or Abducted](https://adoptionland.org/13585/dan-rather-reports-adopted-or-abducted/) - Leslie Mackinnon spoke on the panel at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium in 2022 with the Vance Twins. In her next event, she will be on the panel discussion, Conceiving Christian America/Deceiving Vulnerable Mothers, at the Concerned United Birthparents in September 2024.
- [Korea Baby Exporting Nation](https://adoptionland.org/869/korea-baby-exporting-nation/) - This is the first critical documentary to come out of Korea about inter-country adoption. A month ago we received an urgent request from a mother to help find her baby...
- [South Korea remains one of the largest exporters of overseas adoptees in the world](https://adoptionland.org/3198/south-korea-remains-one-of-the-largest-exporters-of-overseas-adoptees-in-the-world/) - When she finally tracked down the hospital where her son was taken ― which was affiliated with adoption agents ― it had been abruptly closed. After crying for days, she descended into depression with frequent suicidal thoughts.
- [Bethany Christian Services: Accused Of Manipulation, Negligence, Trafficking...](https://adoptionland.org/13399/bethany-christian-services-accused-of-manipulation-negligence-and-trafficking/) - Explore the dark allegations against Bethany Christian Services, a prominent Christian adoption firm, accused of manipulation, negligence, and trafficking....
- [Harry Holt's Adoption Program](https://adoptionland.org/13384/harry-holts-adoption-program/) - Adoptionland Commentary on the groundbreaking investigation by ABC, Holt Children's Services faces intense scrutiny over alleged sham adoptions in South Korea.
- [More Than 300 Korean Adoptees Demand the Truth From Holt International About Their Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/12533/korean-adoptees-demand-the-truth-from-holt-international/) - "In the documents that the Danish authorities & our parents have received, the adoption agencies lied about our age, our hometown & that we were orphans..."
- [The Hague Adoption Convention (HAC) vs. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)](https://adoptionland.org/12699/the-hague-convention-vs-uncrc/) - This video is an extremely informative presentation on the Adoption Hague Convention (HAC) versus the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
- [Concerns on Harry Holt and His 1954 Overseas Adoption Program](https://adoptionland.org/12934/holt-international-adoption-agencies/) - One of the most profound problems that have always bothered me is the way children have been deceptively called orphans throughout history by the adoption...
- [Chinese Parents Reunite After Child Trafficked For Adoption.](https://adoptionland.org/13347/chinese-parents-reunite-after-child-trafficked-for-adoption/) - Chinese parents found their missing son after he was stolen for adoption. Watch this emotional reunion as they reunite for the first time in years.
- [The Hollywood Baby Snatcher, Georgia Tann.](https://adoptionland.org/1075/the-hollywood-baby-snatcher-the-sinister-story-of-the-woman-who-stole-children-sold-them-to-the-stars/) - Discover how Georgia Tann preyed on vulnerable families, falsified records, and sold thousands of children. Uncover the harrowing journey of those torn from their homes
- [BBC Unveiling the Untold Realities of Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/13320/bbc-unveiling-the-untold-realities-of-adoption/) - Embark on a thought-provoking journey as we delve deep into the complexities of adoption in BBC's latest podcast episode. This eye-opening discussion uncovers..
- [The History of Harry Holt & International Adoption Program](https://adoptionland.org/12884/how-did-international-adoption-start-in-seoul-korea/) - Learn How Harry Holt Started The Overseas Adoption Program in South Korea, Which Now Serves As The Foundation of International Worldwide. What are Korean Ado...
- [Monte Haines: SBS Interview about Korean Adoptee Deportations](https://adoptionland.org/11831/sbs-interview-about-korean-adoptee-deportations-monte-haines-justin-chon-blue-bayou/) - The Unknown Culture Club: Korean Adoptee Monte Haines was born in 1970 in South Korea & was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa through Holt International.
- [Unveiling the Dark Realities of International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/13265/unveiling-the-dark-realities-of-international-adoption/) - Unveiling the Dark Realities of International Adoption: Exploitation, Deception, & Identity Loss. Stop the injustice that affects families and their children...
- [South Korea National Assembly Conference on International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/12760/national-assembly-debate-to-seek-the-current-status-of-international-adoptees-human-rights-and-ways-to-guarantee-human-rights/) - Korea National Assembly Debate to Seek the Current Status of International Adoptees’ Human Rights and Ways to Guarantee Human Rights. Plus powerful book on...
- [SBS Interview about Adoptee Deportations - Monte Haines](https://adoptionland.org/4258/sbs-interview-about-adoptee-deportations-monte-haines-story/) - Monte Haines, a contributor to the Korean Adoptees Anthology, was born in 1970 in Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa through Holt International
- [Cambodia-Adoption Scandal](https://adoptionland.org/871/cambodia-adoption-scandal/) - Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
- ['Poverty Porn' and 'Pity Charity' The Dark Underbelly Of a Cambodia Orphanage](https://adoptionland.org/4965/poverty-porn-and-pity-charity-the-dark-underbelly-of-a-cambodia-orphanage/) - South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media, Lindsay Murdoch Phnom Penh: She looks dirty, disheveled, and miserable and is labeled a sex worker. Many Australians responded to a plea to save the pretty Cambodian girl called Pisey from child predators. "Teach a sex worker to sew," declares a glossy internet advertisement for Sunrise Cambodia, an Australian charity
- [Cruelty That Left Me With a Lifetime of Guilt](https://adoptionland.org/1098/when-we-revealed-the-agony-of-mothers-made-to-give-up-their-babies-the-response-from-readers-was-huge-and-heartbreaking/) - When we revealed the agony of mothers made to give up their babies, the response from readers was huge - and heartbreaking. Susan Smith, 61, Lancaster The stigma and devastation still haunt me, at the age of 61. I was 13 when I got pregnant in 1967, and my boyfriend was 14. Neither of us
- [Baby Brokers: Adoption Scams in the United States](https://adoptionland.org/13089/adoption-scams-in-the-united-states/) - Private adoptions in the United States: Learn what adoption profiteers don't want you to know and seven crucial signs of grooming and relinquishment tactics.
- [BBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine](https://adoptionland.org/8220/bbc-hardtalk-interview-with-paul-redmond-the-adoption-machine/) - The Adoption Machine: The Dark History of Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes and the Inside Story of How 'Tuam 800' Became a Global Scandal by Paul Redmond
- [Destroy all birth registrations created by the adoption process...](https://adoptionland.org/10795/craig-wallace-origianl-birth-certificate/) - Photo credit: Craig Wallace Recently, I decided to apply for a certified copy of my “Long Form” birth certificate. (The “Long Form” contains such information as your parent’s names, the hospital you were born in, etc.) While working on the online application, one area I had to complete was “Parent(s) information at the time of
- [The Dark Side of International Adoption and Barbie's Past Involvement](https://adoptionland.org/13000/the-dark-side-of-international-adoption-and-barbies-past-involvement/) - Mattel joined forces with the Chinese-owned White Swan Hotel back in the day when international adoption was at its height. This seemingly innocent collabora...
- [The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/12917/international-adoption-history/) - Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn't until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that...
- [The Real Monte Haines Deportation Story](https://adoptionland.org/6515/montehaines-deportation-story/) - "They made me undress and sent me outside completely naked, tied my hands & feet to two trees, & hollered for their two black Dobermans to nip..." Monte Haines
- [Korean Canadian Adoptees Learn Their Adoption Was a Lie: "I Want the Truth".](https://adoptionland.org/13102/korean-canadian-adoptees-learn-their-adoption-was-a-lie-i-want-the-truth/) - Canadian Korean Adoptee Kelly grew up believing she was an orphan & that both her parents had died. "I may never know what it feels like to have a blood re..."
- [Madonna Investigated for Human Trafficking of Her Adopted Children](https://adoptionland.org/12932/madonna-investigated-for-human-trafficking-of-her-adopted-children/) - Against Child Trafficking helped challenge Madonna in Court in Malawi, blocked the toxic “European Adoption Policy”, & challenged the Hague Adoption Convention.
- [What are Families Separated by Adoption Saying Today?](https://adoptionland.org/12122/what-are-adult-adoptees-saying-about-adoption/) - Taken children--now adults--are critiquing a global man-made market. Facilitators have denied adoptees access to documents that could lead them back to their...
- [The Perverse Effects of the Hague Adoption Convention](https://adoptionland.org/966/the-perverse-effects-of-the-hague-adoption-convention/) - I was quoted as saying that intercountry adoption was legalized child trafficking. This is not a popular statement and many placed me in the anti-adoption camp.
- [BBC Sounds: Adoptees from South Korea Call for an Investigation](https://adoptionland.org/12477/bbc-news-korean-adoptees-call-for-investigation-into-false-family-histories/) - BBC Sounds interview: Adoptees from S. Korea call for an investigation into false adoption records. Join the special request to the Korean government to stop IA
- [Are Korean Adoptees Labeled as Orphans? Investigation needed.](https://adoptionland.org/12459/are-korean-adoptees-labeled-as-orphans-investigation-needed/) - Why are Korean Adoptees worldwide concerned? Adult adoptees born in S. Korea are asking for an investigation into their adoption files for suspicion of fraud.
- [Rehoming: Dan Rather Reports](https://adoptionland.org/2364/rehoming-dan-rather-reports/) - "Rehoming" is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic...
- [Tyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium](https://adoptionland.org/12220/tyler-graf-at-the-adoption-trafficking-awareness-symposium/) - What are adult adoptees saying about adoption today? Hear the stories from across the nation and overseas, representing the U.S., Chile, First Nations, and...
- [“Do you understand that your baby goes away and never comes back?”](https://adoptionland.org/533/do-you-understand-that-your-baby-goes-away-and-never-comes-back-2/) - Nurses traded horror stories involving tearful and confused new mothers, who asked whether they were allowed to hold or feed their babies. On July 29, 2014, Maryann and Dexter Koshiba, 32 and 37 years old, sat, utterly exhausted, in a recovery room at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. That morning, Maryann had given
- [Adoption Documents Forgery: Korean Social Services](https://adoptionland.org/12596/adoption-document-forgery-korean-social-services/) - Korean Social Service sent me an email saying they regretted falsifying the adoption information that I was an orphan, and they said that I was born, raised...
- [Korean Adopted People to Norway Demand Justice and Truth](https://adoptionland.org/12678/korean-adopted-people-to-norway-demand-justice-and-truth/) - The Norwegian Korean Rights Group (NKRG) is a group of adult Korean adoptees established to investigate the degree to which adoptees' human rights are protected
- [Court Orders Holt to Compensate Crapser for Overseas Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/12848/court-orders-holt-to-compensate-crapser-for-overseas-adoption/) - The Seoul Court sided with the plaintiff, 48-year-old Adam Crapser, born Shin Song-hyuk, ordering Holt agency to pay 100 million won or 75 thousand U.S. dollars
- [New Adoptionland Youtube Channel](https://adoptionland.org/12281/announcing-new-adoptionland-youtube-channel/) - Adoptionland Youtube channel by the Adoption Truth & Transparency Worldwide Information Network to protect families from the crisis of adoption trafficking.
- [Read This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/12324/dont-adopt-until-you-read-this/) - Adoption What You Should Know covers the history of adoption, including South Korea, and uncovers shocking secrets that agencies don't want you to know about.
- [Holt International President and CEO Phil Littleton Resigns from Adoption Agency](https://adoptionland.org/12549/holt-international-president-and-ceo-phil-littleton-resigns-from-adoption-agency/) - Littleton, 59, said in the release it was "an honor and a privilege to serve Holt" and did not offer any reason for his departure.
- [China's Adoption Trafficking Crisis](https://adoptionland.org/12747/chinas-adoption-trafficking-crisis/) - Why do thousands of children in China disappear every year? Adoption Trafficking. Is believed that 200,000 children are stolen from China every year.
- [Tribute to Roelie Post](https://adoptionland.org/8659/tribute-to-roelie-post/) - Author Janine reviews Roelie Post's book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of the Romanian 'Orphans'. Roelie Post's book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of the Romanian ‘Orphans’, exposes the formation of an unjust legalized system called inter-country adoption, in which children are taken from their families and sent to foreigners. By reading
- [Holt’s Front Door](https://adoptionland.org/5575/holts-front-door/) - My sister and I entered through the front door. (The entry for adoptees is through an alleyway located at the back.) And while doing so, I could feel brewing questions...
- [The Crisis of Adoption Trafficking in Ethiopia](https://adoptionland.org/9363/adoption-trafficking-in-ethiopia/) - Our story causes us heartbreak not only because of what happened to our child and her family but how selfish and naive we were. We didn't know--we hadn't found the forums
- [BBC interviews Against Child Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/6292/bbc-interviews-against-child-trafficking/) - Arun Dohle a contributor of Adoptionland, "I Can Never Forget: AFTERNOON. HOLIDAY. SUN IS SHINING. Normal people would spend this time with their family, but...
- [Danish International Adoption Has Been Reported to the Police](https://adoptionland.org/12641/danish-international-adoption-has-been-reported-to-the-police/) - Danish International Adoption has been reported to the police after the information came to light that several children may have been trafficked to Denmark.
- [A search warrant to the adoption agency, Holt Child Welfare Foundation](https://adoptionland.org/7919/a-search-warrant-adoption-agency-holt-international-childrens-services/) - A Seoul police officer has conducted a 100-day intensive investigation into children & disabled persons who have been missing, possibly trafficked for adoption.
- [Afghan couple sues U.S. Marine for allegedly abducting baby](https://adoptionland.org/12567/afghan-couple-sues-u-s-marine-for-allegedly-abducting-baby/) - An Afghan couple are suing a U.S. Marine for allegedly abducting their baby. The Marine asked a federal judge to dismiss the case, insisting that he and his wife are the child's legal parents.
- [10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Adopt Overseas in 2022](https://adoptionland.org/10908/why-you-should-be-careful-before-adopting-overseas/) - Has the global man-made market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, & communities? Free info before you pay the $70,000 adoption cost for a child
- [European Adoption Consultants Guilty of Defrauding the U.S.](https://adoptionland.org/12521/european-adoption-consultants-guilty-of-defrauding-the-u-s/) - The former executive director of an Ohio-based international adoption agency pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Ohio to defrauding the U.S. and...
- [S. Korean adoptees allege they are wrongfully adopted.](https://adoptionland.org/12401/s-korean-adoptees-allege-they-are-wrongfully-adopted/) - Danish adoptees call for S. Korea to investigate adoptions. Adopted from Korea to the U.S. through Holt or KSS in the 70s or 80s? Join the investigations here.
- [Priyangika will stop all foreign adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/12445/priyangika-will-stop-all-foreign-adoptions/) - The adoption activist demands an end to adopting children from abroad. The governing authorities assess whether the adoption system should be scrutinized...
- [Adoption Town Hall Meeting](https://adoptionland.org/12027/educating-the-public-on-human-rights-for-people-impacted-by-adoption/) - If there is enough interest Adoption Truth & Transparency Worldwide Information Network will host an "all hands-on discussion" on the underside of adoption...
- [Missing Children in Korea](https://adoptionland.org/11840/korean-father-searching-for-his-child/) - Chae Pilseok is looking for his daughter. Adopted Korean. "Korea was very poor at the time. There was no way to find the child if you lost your child. What I did was report it to the police station. I went to all the orphanages to find my daughter. I cried a lot because I
- [Three Identical Strangers Trailer](https://adoptionland.org/8156/three-identical-strangers/) - Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to inter...
- [Adoption Trafficking Presentation](https://adoptionland.org/11658/adoption-trafficking-presentation-arun-dohle/) - Cambridge Centre for Applied Research in Human Trafficking (CCARHT). Against Child Trafficking presentation on June 29th, 2021. Expert and investigator in the field, Arun Dohle, talks about adoption trafficking. Read his contribution in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, Chapter, "I Can Never Forget". https://youtu.be/GCmFE4RbMbk
- [Adam Crapser Filed a Landmark Lawsuit Against the South Korean Government and Holt Children's Services](https://adoptionland.org/9537/adam-crapser-filed-a-landmark-lawsuit-against-south-korean-government-and-holt-childrens-services/) - Adam Crapser filed a landmark lawsuit against South Korean Government and Holt Children's Services
- [BLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon](https://adoptionland.org/11718/blue-bayou-justin-chon/) - Read about both Monte Haines and Adam Crapser's adoption stories: Want to know the true-life stories of deported adoptees from Seoul, South Korea? If you watched Justin Chon's film titled Blue Bayou, you should know the background history of not only deported adoptees, like Adam Crapser and Monte Haines but the typical childhood narratives of adoptees
- [Bringing Children Adopted By Foreigners And Indian Parents Together, One Reunion At A Time](https://adoptionland.org/11859/bringing-children-adopted-by-foreigners-and-indian-parents-together-one-reunion-at-a-time/) - Adopted from India? Help is now at hand. By Anupriya Suhas Munshi 29 November 2021 A few years ago, in Delhi, I saw a father who had given up his two-month-old daughter for adoption to an orphanage, meet his child after 35 years. It was an electric moment. The two didn’t exchange any word—the girl
- [Gift of Hope](https://adoptionland.org/2634/gift-of-hope/) - No parent should ever have their child stolen to meet the intercountry-adoption market demand. Through our Family Reunification Program, you can help bring together parents with their taken children. In most cases, the children are adults by the time they have learned the truth about their origin. Gift of Hope supports the most vulnerable families
- [Against Child Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/984/against-child-trafficking/) - About ACT: Against Child Trafficking is an international nonprofit organization, registered in the Netherlands. ACT’s main focus is the prevention of child trafficking for intercountry adoption. ACT advocates child rights based social policies that are in compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the universal standard and the
- [China Adoption Trafficking: Mother Reunites with Missing Son After 32-year Search](https://adoptionland.org/11940/china-adoption-trafficking-mother-reunites-with-missing-son-after-32-year-search/) - "So if you ever have any doubts about your birth, that you were kidnapped or adopted, then you should come forward to look for your birth parents. If you don't, then it's very difficult for your parents to find you." Chinese Mother, searching for her son missing for 32 years. 10:50 https://youtu.be/00pVF4dHfxY 7:41 "To me,
- [Mo Farah Reveals a Secret](https://adoptionland.org/12191/olympic-champion-mo-farah/) - Olympic champion Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked as a child | Nightline Four-time Olympic Gold Medalists, Moses, one of the fastest long-distance runners, shares his secret from his past. Born in Somalia, brought into the UK illegally using another child's name. This is also called Adoption Trafficking. Watch the video below to learn he
- [MSNBC: Abortion Rights](https://adoptionland.org/12176/msnbc-abortion-rights/) - Adoption is NOT the answer. What are adopted people and families separated by adoption saying about adoption? https://youtu.be/GCmFE4RbMbk
- [Li'l Adoption Truth Seeker](https://adoptionland.org/1163/lil-adoption-truth-seeker/) - The 'Speak up for South Korea's waiting Children' youtube video was made by an adoption agency's CEO and a Korean Pastor in hopes of encouraging American's support of gaining more children for international adoption. This is a response video to them. Agencies should not be allowed to label children as “orphans” unless the agency can
- [Philomena author on scandal of Ireland's 60,000 babies 'sold' by nuns to rich American families](https://adoptionland.org/3806/philomena-author-on-scandal-of-irelands-60000-babies-sold-by-nuns-to-rich-american-families/) - The film Philomena, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan, tells the true story of a mother’s quest to find the son taken from her by the Catholic Church in 1950s Ireland. She was one of an estimated 60,000 women whose babies were given to new parents in exchange for cash donations. As part of a
- [Christian World Adoption (CWA)](https://adoptionland.org/2748/christian-world-adoption/) - 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
- [A Brief History of Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home](https://adoptionland.org/11164/a-brief-history-of-castlepollard-mother-baby-home-2/) - The third floor also had a few ‘private’ rooms where well-off families who could afford to pay handed over the huge sum of £100 for privacy and a speedy exit. The Order of the Sacred Heart nuns arrived in Ireland in 1922 within months of the formation of the Irish Free state after the civil
- [Tyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium](https://adoptionland.org/12057/tyler-graf/) - Tyler Graf and fellow panelists at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium. Adopted? Your opinion matters. Fill out the survey here. What are adult adoptees saying about adoption today? Hear the stories from across the nation and overseas, representing the U.S., First Nations, India, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Haiti, New Zealand, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, and Colombia
- [FBI Begins Investigation into Girls Home.](https://adoptionland.org/11912/nbc-news-a-mother-finds-her-lost-child-after-a-40-year-search/) - A Mother Finds Her Lost Child After a 40-years Search: 'She Was Always There.' "They would bring the girls to Hattiesburg, they would be pregnant and then they would move the girls out to another state to stay in a foster home, and then the adoption in another jurisdiction, so there was no way to
- [This book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.](https://adoptionland.org/11395/adoption-book-is-mind-blowing/) - This short book deconstructs the industry and acknowledges the families left behind. Has the global push for adoption exploited mothers worldwide? Review: It has been over a century since the practice of adoption was introduced. While it seems that it has been a highly beneficial practice that has helped children grow in better environments and
- [Catholic Mass Grave Sites of 350,800 Missing Children Found in Ireland, Spain, Canada](https://adoptionland.org/3443/catholic-mass-grave-sites-of-350800-missing-children-found-in-ireland-spain-canada/) - Catholic Mass Grave Sites of 350,800 Missing Children Found in Ireland, Spain, Canada
- [Spain's Stolen Babies](https://adoptionland.org/1365/this-world-spains-stolen-babies/) - Up to 300,000 babies in Spain were stolen from ‘undesirable’ families and trafficked by an unholy alliance of doctors, the Catholic Church, and Franco’s Secret police. Now, decades on, some of these stolen children are trying to find their biological families. The racket began shortly after the Spanish Civil War as a way of stopping
- [Greek-born Adoptee Advocate - Mary Cardaras](https://adoptionland.org/12024/greek-born-adoptee-advocate-mary-cardaras/) - Feb 25, 2022 • Recorded at CSUEB in Hayward, California on February 21, 2022.
- [Adoption: Disposable Children](https://adoptionland.org/7825/adoption-disposable-children/) - The original trailer was taken off of the air. But below is the transcription of the original documentary: [Fashion show of children in an Evangelical Church, Pennsylvania. Presenter describes children ] Each year an association organizes a fashion show of children: children parade to find parents. Some of the children are sometimes in their third
- [Christian Alliance for Orphans  Questions & Answers](https://adoptionland.org/1022/christians-alliance-for-orphan-q-a/) - Interview in 2015 from the Riley Blog: At this year's Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) Summit, David Smolin, Law Professor, was invited along as the “critic” of the movement to take part in one of the breakout sessions between him and Jedd Medicind, President of CAFO. The session lasted one hour and both Jedd and
- [Susan Lohan: Philomena Cheered by Stars While the State Turns Deaf Ear](https://adoptionland.org/4602/susan-lohan-philomena-cheered-by-stars-while-the-state-turns-deaf-ear/) - THE ‘real' Philomena Lee, subject of the film Philomena, deserves the admiration and thanks of Ireland's forgotten adopted people and their natural mothers for her undaunting campaign to have this dark chapter of our history highlighted. Thanks to the determination of this dignified 80-year-old lady, her daughter Jane, writer Martin Sixsmith, film producer Steve Coogan
- [Adoption Scandal in Indonesia - Baby Trade Closed](https://adoptionland.org/11953/adoption-scandal-in-indonesia-baby-trade-closed/) - Rumors of adoption scandals in Bangladesh and Indonesia. On August 8th, 1979 Dutch media write about the trade-in of hundreds of Indonesian babies, these babies are put up for adoption with falsified papers to Dutch and other foreign couples. The telegram reports, Illegal babies from Indonesia can stay in the Netherlands. The department of Justice
- [Screaming Rooms and Banished Babies: Ireland](https://adoptionland.org/4163/screamingroomsandbanishedbabies/) - The sad history of where I was born.... THE ORDER OF the Sacred Heart nuns arrived in Ireland in 1922 within months of the formation of the Irish Free state after the civil war. They were invited over from England by the newly-formed Irish government to deal with the ‘problem’ of women having babies outside
- [International Adoption Corruption](https://adoptionland.org/970/international-adoption-corruption/) - There is nothing that matters more to human beings than knowing our biological roots. Children, who are moved from their biological families or their birth environment, live with a big gaping hole in their hearts that nobody or nothing could ever fill. Orphan children are children who lost one or two of their parents. They
- [Exhibition on forced adoption prompts outpouring from women moved by loss](https://adoptionland.org/1115/exhibition-on-forced-adoption-prompts-outpouring-from-women-moved-by-loss/) - The trauma of separation from their babies faced by 19th century unmarried mothers is still raw in responses to the Foundling Museum’s forthcoming show. Donations to fund an exhibition on unmarried women who were forced to give away their babies – dubbed “fallen women” in the 19th century – have been accompanied by poignant comments
- [I never consented for my son to be adopted](https://adoptionland.org/7958/i-never-consented-for-my-son-adoption/) - I appeal for your good heart with understanding and compassion for the pain and anguish I feel as a father who has been unjustly kept away from my son. I hope that you can find it in your heart to empathize and agree to my request. Went to Malaysia after residing in Singapore from 2010
- [We thank you for your donation!](https://adoptionland.org/8586/we-thank-you-for-your-donation/) - Gift of HopeThank you for donating! The ACT USA Team Your Gift of Hope is another step forward.
- [History Forced Adoptions, Monica Lennon](https://adoptionland.org/11641/history-forced-adoptions-monica-lennon/) - Marion McMillan finally getting her experiences heard at the Parliament. Her story deserves to be acknowledged and her personal account can be read in detail in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists. Marion McMillan's (Scotland) chapter is titled, "On Behalf of Scottish Mothers." page 119, Part 3: "Abandoned" https://youtu.be/0SJ-K8uMi4A
- [Ricki's Promise.](https://adoptionland.org/11878/chinese-adoption/) - A Film by Changfu Chang "After Mengting was born, we did everything we could to hide her and to keep her. We never intended to abandon her. When we went outside, we would put our child in a big grocery bag, with one person holding both of her hands and the other holding both her
- [Kara Bos' Journey to Find her Mother](https://adoptionland.org/11572/kara-bos-journey-to-find-her-mother/) - The reunion after such a long time, only lasted 8 minutes. "So he left and I just broke down because that was really my last chance of knowing anything...because I worked so hard to get to this meeting with him." Kara Bos. After 6 months, her father passed away at the age of 87 years
- [Phil Donahue asks the hard questions about adoption.](https://adoptionland.org/8525/the-phil-donahue-show-adoption/) - "Fighting for Rights After a Forced, Unethical Adoption." From the historical archives of CUB (Lee Campbell) Caller: "I am a social worker and I worked for several (one in particular) adoption agencies. And a point that needs to be made here is that we are not allowed under any circumstances to give alternative information, and we
- [Korean Adoptee Reunites With Her Mother](https://adoptionland.org/9757/korean-adoptee-reunites-with-her-mother/) - https://youtu.be/2hfT8PJYG4U Melissa Konomos had always felt a longing to connect with her parents and to understand why she had been placed for adoption. She spent seven years searching for her mother until she received the call that they had found her mother and that she wanted to meet. This is the story of Melissa's journey
- [How I Survived Adoption.](https://adoptionland.org/11306/interview-form/) - We offer global news on adoption based on the stories of families separated by adoption. The website was initiated in 2014 in conjunction with the anthology, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, the first book to address issues that adoption agencies were too afraid to face or trying to hide--the families left behind and individuals adopted.
- [We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!](https://adoptionland.org/11288/adoption-trafficking/) - DO YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT AGAINST AN ADOPTION AGENCY? Although adoption may appear legal or follow certain bureaucracy, this does not make the adoption ethical according to many parents-of-loss, and [birth] families within the local and global community. Adoption agencies tend to blame the victims to keep the attention off of their own unethical activities.
- [Ring in Columbia Kidnaps Children for Sale Abroad](https://adoptionland.org/11791/ring-in-columbia-kidnaps-children-for-sale-abroad/) - By Warren Hoge, Special To the New York Times 8-16-81 The authorities have uncovered a multimillion-dollar international ring in which hundreds of poor Andean children were kidnapped or bought from their mothers and sold under forged birth certificates and adoption papers to childless couples from the United States and Europe. A Bogota lawyer has been jailed
- [Holt Children’s Services Takes Heat in Abuse Death Case](https://adoptionland.org/11176/sorryjungin-holt-childrens-services-takes-heat-in-abuse-death-case/) - #SorryJungin The Last Letter to Jungin #SorryJungin 정인이에게 보내는 우리의 마지막 편지 (The Last Letter to Jungin)ㅣ그알PICK SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Yonhap) — Children’s rights activists on Thursday urged the health ministry to look into the role, if any, of a major adoption agency in the death of a 16-month-old adoptee. At a press conference near
- [Fusion Investigates International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/10984/fusion-investigates-international-adoption/) - Fusion, The Traffickers "I didn't know I was going to go to a new place. When I went to the orphanage I thought I just stay there to do some something, but then I noticed I was never coming back." Adopted Child "One thing is clear about international adoption is that nothing is straight forward,
- [Agency Complaint](https://adoptionland.org/10731/agency-complaint/) - This is a free public online place for people who feel they have been treated unfairly, to share your story. You can make a complaint as an individual, as a public representative, and/or as a business or organization. This is a way to raise awareness and avoid unjust adoptions from happening to others. Need your
- [Adoption: Is it about the Money?](https://adoptionland.org/2506/adoption-it-is-about-the-money/) - Child ‘protection’ is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. A recent CDC study, The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention, found the total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of cases associated with child protection
- [Adoption Bonuses: The Money Behind the Madness](https://adoptionland.org/5101/adoption-bonuses-the-money-behind-the-madness/) - By Nev Moore Massachusetts News Child "protection" is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. The money goes to tens of thousands of a) state employees, b) collateral professionals, such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and c) DSS contracted vendors such
- [The Netherlands will immediately suspend adoptions from abroad.](https://adoptionland.org/11243/the-netherlands-will-immediately-suspend-adoptions-from-abroad/) - The Netherlands will immediately suspend adoptions from abroad. The outgoing Minister for Legal Protection Dekker announced this in response to the report of the Joustra Committee on the Dutch adoption culture and the role of the government. Ongoing adoption procedures will still be completed, after an additional test. The State will also no longer rely
- [Meet Me on the Bridge](https://adoptionland.org/11735/meet-me-on-the-bridge/) - Filmed and directed by Changfu Chang. "My little girl was born in 1995, on July 24th, in the morning, in Suzhou. Because of poverty and other problems, we had no choice but to abandon our little girl on the street. If you have sympathy for us parents, please let us meet on the Broken Bridge
- [Canada's Forced Adoption Practices Released](https://adoptionland.org/11496/canada-forced-adoption-practices-release/) - Press conference: The Shame Is Ours | Conférence de presse : Honte à nous | Canada's forced adoption practices released July 19, 2018 "It is time to begin the healing process for unwed mothers and the children they were pressured into giving up in the decades after the Second World War, the Senate Committee on
- [Mercy Mercy](https://adoptionland.org/1529/mercy-mercy/) - Grierson Nominees 2015: by Katrine W. Kjaer Five years ago I met Henriette and Gert through research I was doing for another project. They were facing adoption, and showed me a photo of their prospective children, Masho and Roba, together with their biological parents, whom the adoption agency had explained, were dying of AIDS. At
- [An Against Child Trafficking Success Story](https://adoptionland.org/6594/an-against-child-trafficking-success-story/) - An Excerpt from "Inside Story of an Adoption Scandal" by Arun Dohle gives reason for the need for searches and reunions: "In historical terms, intercountry adoptions from India have had a short run. Within thirty years of its inception, murky scandals of child kidnapping, falsifying paperwork, outright trading, and other tragic stories have ridden these intercountry adoptions.
- [Al Jazeera: Canada's Dark Secret](https://adoptionland.org/10854/al-jazeera-canadas-dark-secret/) - Al Jazeera | Canada's Dark Secret | Featured Documentary "In 1996, the last residential school in Canada was closed down, bringing to light horrifying stories about the methods used to sever indigenous children from the influence of their families and to assimilate them into the dominant "Canadian" culture. Over more than a century, tens of
- [Private Adoption Industry Reaps Profits](https://adoptionland.org/11621/private-adoption-industry-reaps-profits/) - A web of consultants, facilitators, and other middlemen have made private adoption a lucrative business. But the profit motives can leave mothers feeling coerced, and, nationwide, a lack of regulation creates opportunities for exploitation. In partnership with TIME, this Newsy report shows the murky world of the private adoption industry. This story was reported and
- [Did you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans?](https://adoptionland.org/8518/the-revolutionary-orphan-collective/) - Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja Ph.D. does an amazing job outlining in a logical fashion the roots and causes of adoption. Her writing creates a clear understanding of why adoption started and what perpetuated its momentum into the lucrative business of adoption trafficking.
- [The adoption business - snatched from parents, sold as orphans](https://adoptionland.org/7952/adoption-busines-snatched-from-parents-sold-as-orphans/) - To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz "The adoption business - snatched from parents, sold as orphans", on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz "The adoption business - snatched from parents, sold as orphans", on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 Interview with Dorrit
- [USA pushes Congo to allow adoptions despite trafficking fears](https://adoptionland.org/1159/usa-pushes-congo-to-allow-adoptions-despite-trafficking-fears/) - A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in May found that child traffickers bribed, tricked and coerced Ugandan families into giving up their children for adoption. NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Legislators in the United States are lobbying the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to give 400 adopted children exit visas, after it suspended
- [DR Congo's Lost Children](https://adoptionland.org/9570/dr-congos-lost-children-adoption-trafficking/) - Lost children abducted from DR Congo and put up for adoption in Belgium.
- [The Crime of Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/11615/the-crime-of-adoption-barbara-sumner/) - SPEAKERS’ CORNER: THE CRIME OF ADOPTION (2021) Auckland Writers Festival https://vimeo.com/557360281?fbclid
- [Fly Away Home](https://adoptionland.org/2688/fly-away-home/) - 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
- [Fly Away Children Response](https://adoptionland.org/6569/fly-away-children-response/) - CHRISTIAN WORLD ADOPTION (CWA) “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. “I would have never brought home a child
- [The Truth About Our ‘Abandonment’  By Kara Bos](https://adoptionland.org/10954/kara-bos-korean-adoptee-holt/) - The Korean Nationality Act Article 12 states: "Any national of the Republic of Korea who falls under one of the following subparagraphs shall lose his or her nationality (1948-presently Art. 15) -2. A person who has been adopted by an alien and has acquired the parent’s nationality..." I was adopted in 1984 from South Korea,
- [For the Creation of a Committee Investigating the Illicit Intercountry Adoptions Since '70s](https://adoptionland.org/11553/for-the-creation-of-a-committee-investigating-the-illicit-intercountry-adoptions-since-70s/) - Collective for the Recognition of Illicit Adoptions in France launched this petition addressed to the National Assembly and to 3 others (National Assembly representatives, French Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs). CHANGE.ORG Petition is Here. Many of us have been asking, for a few years now, for an investigation into the illegal practices of intercountry adoption
- [Twin Brothers Stolen and Sold to the Black Market: Interviewed by Oprah](https://adoptionland.org/11203/oprah-interviews-twin-brothers-by-georgia-tannstolen-and-sold-to-the-black-market/) - In the 1930s and '40s, a woman named Georgia Tann, a ruthless baby thief, ran a black-market ring stealing over 5,000 children and selling them to the highest bidder. In 1991, Twin brothers James and Thomas White, opened up to Oprah about the horrific abuse and torment they suffered from the moment that Georgia Tann's
- [Closed Adoptions: A Form of Violence](https://adoptionland.org/8281/closed-adoptions-a-form-of-violence/) - "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
- [Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.](https://adoptionland.org/9192/the-revolutionary-adoptee-collective/) - Adoption History 101 summarizes the inception and expansion of the adoption industry, focusing on its roots and consequences kept from public awareness. For years, facilitators have denied adoptees access to documents that could lead them back to their families.
- [Mexico: Twins Who Were Separated At Birth Meet Up After 20 Years](https://adoptionland.org/4496/twins-who-were-separated-at-birth-meet-up-after-20-years/) - Adriana Scott was adopted from Mexico when she was just weeks old. While growing up on Long Island, N.Y., she noticed that she looked nothing like her cousins. She had no idea why she excelled at certain things. "I'm very into music and into dancing," she says. "My family's not like that, really." And she
- [Chinese Adoptions and Rehoming](https://adoptionland.org/2439/internet-rehoming-the-dark-side-of-international-adoptions/) - Internet 'Rehoming': The Dark Side of International Adoptions They call it "adopting from disruption," and you can find forums and mailing lists devoted to the topic across the Internet—everywhere from Facebook to until recently, Yahoo Groups. "My husband and I have never actually visited another country to adopt a child. Yet, our family includes Russian,
- [Filmmaker Was Documenting Abuses in CPS and Children Murdered under State Custody Before He Died](https://adoptionland.org/2884/filmmaker-was-documenting-abuses-in-cps-and-children-murdered-under-state-custody-before-he-died/) - 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
- [Why Do Black Babies Cost Less To Adopt?](https://adoptionland.org/2488/black-babies-cost-less-to-adopt/) - Americans adopt thousands of children each year. And as the nation has become increasingly diverse, and with the growth of international adoption in recent decades, many of those children don't look like their adoptive parents. That intersection of race and adoption has prompted many people to submit their six words to The Race Card Project,
- [Adopted Child Sent Back to Russia Alone](https://adoptionland.org/7682/adopted-child-sent-back-to-russia-alone-reported-by-diane-sawyer/) - ABC - NEWS, Reported by Diane Sawyer https://youtu.be/jzUOU6usHAk Adoption: What You Should Know https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08H5V7342/ref
- [10+ Hidden Adoption Surprises in 2021](https://adoptionland.org/9828/hidden-adoption-surprises/) - Are you thinking about adopting a child? Do you have any questions about adoption? Don't know who to ask? Join the FREE discussion first before you write the $30,000 check. It's free to join.
- [Why did an adoption agency tell Angelina Jolie I had died of AIDS when they gave her my baby?](https://adoptionland.org/1171/why-did-an-adoption-agency-tell-angelina-jolie-i-had-died-of-aids-when-they-gave-her-my-baby/) - 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
- [We Demand an Independent Review of Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/7967/we-require-an-independent-review-of-the-adoption-center/) - Earlier, 92 adoptees from Chile wrote about unethical adoptions from that same country. They are not the only ones. Today, 40 Colombian adoptees are coming together, sharing that the unethical adoptions were not limited to Chile. Recently, we witnessed how 92 adult adoptees from Chile started questioning what is to come after they found out
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- [A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family](https://adoptionland.org/11458/a-stolen-twin-reunites-with-her-family/) - Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.
- [Family adopt a 5 yr old girl but when she learns to speak english they discover the horrifying truth](https://adoptionland.org/11463/family-adopt-a-5-yr-old-girl-but-when-she-learns-to-speak-english-they-discover-the-horrifying-truth/)
- [They Took Us Away From Our Mom.](https://adoptionland.org/11420/native-american-adoption-era/) - "They came marching right in and literally took us and thousands of other children from their homes." The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man”. Toward the end of the 19th century, the US took thousands of Native American children and enrolled them in off-reservation boarding
- [I’m looking for you MUM!!](https://adoptionland.org/11263/looking-for-my-mum/) - Hi, my name is Rossella Carrara Hürlemann and I’m looking for my biological parents. I was born in Peru. Rossella was adopted 44 years ago and wants to find biological parents. She lives in Germany, has three daughters, and says that at six months she was given up for adoption to an Italian woman. She
- ['Making mistakes with people's lives': the ethics of orphanages and voluntourism](https://adoptionland.org/1409/making-mistakes-with-peoples-lives-the-ethics-of-orphanages-and-voluntourism/) - Tara Winkler thought she was doing the right thing when she travelled to Cambodia to volunteer in an orphanage, but she unwittingly became part of an industry that relies on taking children from their families and keeping them in institutions. Now she hopes to raise awareness of the problems with both orphanage tourism and other
- [Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists](https://adoptionland.org/2978/adoptionland-from-orphans-to-activists/) - “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
- [Savior or Neocolonialism](https://adoptionland.org/5795/savior-or-neocolonialism/) - A Still from Vanessa Beecroft's The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins. Photograph: Vanessa Beecroft Film by Pietra Brettkelly "Without the knowledge of her husband, on her third visit to South Sudan, Vanessa attempts to adopt the twins. In a shell-shocked building the father of the twins puts his thumbprint to 10 copies of an
- [The Child Citizenship Act of 2000](https://adoptionland.org/8060/the-child-citizenship-act-of-2000/) - December 1, 2000 The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 On October 30, 2000, President Clinton signed into law H.R. 2883, the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. The new law, Public Law 106-395, amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to permit foreign-born children—including adopted children —to acquire citizenship automatically if they meet certain requirements. It
- [She'll get US citizenship 60 years after being adopted, but thousands more must still wait](https://adoptionland.org/5321/shell-get-us-citizenship-60-years-after-being-adopted-but-thousands-more-must-still-wait/) - In January, after 13 months in limbo, Ella Purkiss was finally granted survivor benefits from her deceased husband. She says if it had taken even one month longer she would have been evicted from her trailer home in Pahrump, Nevada. Next Friday, after 60 years of living in the US, she will finally be granted
- [Adoption Stories: Excerpts from Adoption Books for Adults](https://adoptionland.org/10411/adoptees-stories/) - Information is Power. Adopted people are diverse individuals with differing points of view, yet have been stigmatized into one type of people by the industry leaders. Even though we come from various backgrounds, we've been stereotyped as if all of us are somehow ungrateful if we don't show enough appreciation, labeled as if having Reactive
- [Intercountry Adoption is a Cloak for Child Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/10748/intercountry-adoption-is-a-cloak-for-child-trafficking/) - Ever wondered what adopted people are saying today about adoption?
- [Little boy taken for adoption embarks on journey to find family](https://adoptionland.org/10772/little-boy-taken-for-adoption-embarks-on-journey-to-find-family/)
- [Adoption Annulment Movement](https://adoptionland.org/10807/adoption-annulment-movement/) - https://youtu.be/xjgWRcbmPio What are your thoughts? Feel free to comment below. Ever wondered what adopted people are saying today about adoption? https://adoptionland.org/adoptionland-from-orphan-to-activist/
- [Exposing India's Illegal Baby Trade - Journeyman](https://adoptionland.org/10994/exposing-indias-illegal-baby-trade/) - "I wept. I tried to hang myself, so I could die. Everything was pointless without my kids. I swallowed medicines, drank kerosene oil. I was admitted to a hospital for a month. Then I swallowed pills, so I could die." recalls Sunama. She didn't know where they were, or if they were even alive. Sunama
- [Real Parents Don't Celebrate Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/8489/how-to-adopt-overseas/) - Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about adoption. Books by Janine Myung Ja. Although adoption may appear legal or follow certain bureaucracy, this does not make the adoption ethical according to many parents-of-loss, and long-lost families within the local and global community. Adoption agencies tend to blame the victims to keep the attention off of their
- [When 6700 children were adopted from India to Sweden, irregularities may have occurred](https://adoptionland.org/8103/when-6700-children-were-adopted-from-india-to-sweden-irregularities-may-have-occurred/) - Swedish authorities failed to ensure compliance with rules. Now an independent investigation and government grants are required for adopted people who want to search for their roots. Due to recent reporting in international and Swedish media such as Sweden's Television concerning unethical adoptions from Chile and Sri Lanka to Sweden, we set aside from India the question: What
- [Mother Reunites With Her Daughter After 42 Years Of Searching for Her | The Oprah Winfrey Show | OWN](https://adoptionland.org/11238/mother-reunites-with-her-daughter-after-42-years-of-searching-for-her-the-oprah-winfrey-show-own/) - Linda was 15 years old when she was forced to place her baby girl for adoption. In 2010, genealogist Pam Slaton helped Linda find her daughter, Laura. It had been 42 years since Laura was born, and Laura flew more than 2,000 miles to meet the woman who gave her life. Here, witness the emotional
- [Spanish nuns accused of taking babies](https://adoptionland.org/4716/spanish-nuns-accused-of-taking-babies/) - By Hannah Tooley A pair of nuns in Spain are under investigation over allegations of stealing 13 babies whose mothers gave them up for adoption. Sister Carmen Longatela Latas, 82, and Sister Carmen Vazquez Lamela, 88, have been indicted by a court on suspicion of tricking or forging mothers to give up their children. The
- [Stolen babies, Stolen Lives, Spanish Justice Served Cold](https://adoptionland.org/3106/stolen-babies-stolen-lives-spanish-justice-served-cold/) - Stolen from their mothers at birth, sold to be brought up by another. We meet Juani and Paloma, two Spanish women caught up in Spain’s scandal of stolen babies. They’re among many struggling to come to terms with crimes done to them and their biological parents decades ago. Advocates say there were thousands of false
- [Spain's Secret Shame: Baby Black Market Exposed](https://adoptionland.org/1493/spains-secret-shame-baby-black-market-exposed/) - By Dale Hurd BARCELONA, Spain -- At a cemetery in Barcelona, trucks arrived for a court-ordered exhumation. All across Spain, officials are opening the coffins of dead newborn babies to see if there are any human remains inside.They have discovered that many of the coffins are empty. Spain is reeling from one of the worst
- [The Story of Stolen Babies for Adoption, Georgia Tann](https://adoptionland.org/5776/stolen-babies-for-adoption-trafficking/) - Georgia Tann: Memphis Baby Adoption Scandal Video by Jerry Skinner "She used manipulation, deception, pressure tactics, threats, and brute force to take children from mainly poor single mothers in a 5 state area to sell to wealthy parents up until outrage, lawsuits, and complaints spurred a state investigation into her tactics closed her down in
- [Georgia Tann - The Baby Thief](https://adoptionland.org/1065/georgia-tann/) - From 1924 through 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society, from a stately home on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. She used it as a front for an illegal foundling home and adoption agency that placed over 5,000 newborn infants and children, from toddlers up to age 16, to sell to what she
- [#SorryJungIn](https://adoptionland.org/11188/sorryjungin/) - Abusive Adoptive Parents: The Case of Jung In & Why BTS's Jimin Apologized #정인아_미안해 #SorryJungin #Jimin Ever wondered what Korean adopted people are saying today about adoption? This is a powerful and important read for all. The adoptee voice is all too often silenced, and it can literally be life or death for some to be heard
- [Children for Sale - Vice International](https://adoptionland.org/10992/children-for-sale-vice-international/) - "Children shouldn't serve a couple's need to have a baby."
- [2021 Adoption Concerns](https://adoptionland.org/11131/adoption-concerns/) - Reasons why people may register a complaint and what to watch out for with unethical adoptions. Keep in mind that though adoption may be legal in the United States or other European countries, what happens behind 'closed' doors or in foreign countries to obtain 'your' child is not always ethical and could lead to child
- [Chinese Adoption Trafficking: Stolen Twin Girls](https://adoptionland.org/11158/chinese-adoption-trafficking-stolen-twin-girls/) - In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her real family and her twin sister. Ever wondered what adopted people are saying today about adoption? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JK4TXA0/ref/ref
- [Adam Crapser 41 and Deported to Korea](https://adoptionland.org/9239/adam-crapser/) - Want to know why so many adopted people no longer tolerate the business of adoption? This book uncovers why so many adoptees, like Adam Crapser, have decided to disapprove of the adoption industry and the adoption agencies that play" God" and take children away from their homelands.
- [Over 9,000 Irish women or ‘inmates’ went through these doors, forced to repent](https://adoptionland.org/3420/over-9000-irish-women-or-inmates/) - Originally known as Pelletstown and later as Saint Patrick’s Mother and Baby home, 361 Navan Road, Dublin 7, it was originally a public Workhouse and probably designated a ’Special institution’ exclusively for single mothers in 1904. It was converted for such usage in 1906 by George Sheridan at a cost of £11,000. Pelletstown was owned
- [Adoption needs overhaul or abandoning say people adopted as children](https://adoptionland.org/881/adoption-needs-overhaul-or-abandoning-say-people-adopted-as-children/) - LOUISE MILLIGAN: This is what has angered many adult adoptees: Tony Abbott with actor and adoptive parent Deborra-Lee Furness promoting fast-tracking inter-country adoption. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: The benefits of inter-country adoption seem obvious when a child from the developing world is given a chance at a better life. It's had widespread celebrity endorsement of
- [A grandmother's 36-year hunt for the child stolen by the Argentinian junta](https://adoptionland.org/895/a-grandmothers-36-year-hunt-for-the-child-stolen-by-the-argentinian-junta/) - In 1977 Estela Carlotto’s pregnant daughter was arrested. The Argentinian regime let her live long enough to have the baby before killing her. With others, Estela formed the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to search for the grandson she’d never known. Uki Goñi reports Practically all of Argentina has cried on this one,” says Ignacio
- [A Chilean Adoptee intends to initiate the legal process after scandal](https://adoptionland.org/10821/chilean-adoptee-child-trafficking/) - Now the criticism is growing among adoptees from Chile. Tommy Leite is one of those who sees himself as a victim of human trafficking after SVT's and Chilean journalists' review. He demands that those responsible be held accountable and now plans to initiate a legal process. We meet Tommy Leite at his adoptive parents' home
- [Is Adoption a Baby Business?](https://adoptionland.org/8392/adoption-baby-international-domestic/) - How demand from US families seeking to adopt babies from abroad has paved the way for exploitation and fraud. The only place Florence and Jennifer see their children now is in photos. Five years ago, they sent them to stay with their sister Mariam. But when they returned to collect them their children had disappeared.
- [Kidnapped and Sold: Inside the Dark World of Child Trafficking in China](https://adoptionland.org/1346/kidnapped-and-sold-inside-the-dark-world-of-child-trafficking-in-china/) - CHARLIE CUSTER Some Americans have unknowingly adopted Chinese babies taken from their parents and sold to orphanages. But can Congress do anything about it? In March 2011, Rose Candis had the worst lunch of her life. Sitting at a restaurant in Shaoguan, a small city in South China, the American mother tried hard not to
- [The Lost Children of Cold War Greece](https://adoptionland.org/11024/the-lost-children-of-cold-war-greece/) - With English Subtitles Watch this important documentary that explores a subject considered taboo until now: the adoptions of over 3,000 Greek children to the US and another 600 to the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. "Nobody paid attention to the facts. The only important thing was that the children would go to America quickly
- [India/Denmark Adoption Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/10022/adoption-trafficking-india-denmark/) - A lot went wrong in the adoptions of the 70s and 80s. At the time, adoptive children from both India, Bangladesh, and China were brought to the Netherlands without the knowledge of their parents. The children's papers were also tampered with. It has, therefore, become very complicated for them to find their biological family. But
- [Living with Dead Hearts](https://adoptionland.org/689/living-with-dead-hearts/) - "We saw a person grab my son and take him away. No one could find him, it was as if he had evaporated." A Chinese Father "The feeling of losing your child, it's like ...like being hopeless. We are living with dead hearts." A Chinese Mother "The orphanages classified the children as 'orphans' or 'abandoned'....and
- [CHINA: Illustrates Tragedy of Child Abductions](https://adoptionland.org/3079/china-illustrates-tragedy-of-adoption-trafficking/) - In a country where many families are allowed only one child, the notion that one’s son or daughter could be abducted and sold feels almost impossibly horrible. And yet, as a new documentary makes clear, it happens in China with stunning frequency. “Most foreigners don’t know this is happening at all,” says Charlie Custer, a
- [Babies for sale on Facebook](https://adoptionland.org/4144/babies-for-sale-on-facebook/) - PETALING JAYA: Babies are now available for sale through Facebook. Checks by the Sun showed more than 600,000 hits through Google which displayed both open and closed Facebook pages with details such as infants' age, gender, and health. Potential adopters are provided with details of the mother's pregnancy stage, and, based on a case-by-case basis,
- [Chinese baby trafficking leaves farmers forlorn](https://adoptionland.org/4377/chinese-baby-trafficking-leaves-farmers-forlorn/) - Children taken under guise of one-child policy and sent to be adopted abroad By Anthony Germain, CBC News. Forty-seven year old Yang Li Bing puffs on a cigarette as he shuffles through photos of a daughter he hasn’t seen in seven years. "After she was taken in 2004, I could hardly sleep and I asked my
- [Watch How Thousands of Children Are Being Stolen From Africa Under the Guise of Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/4864/watch-how-thousands-of-children-are-being-stolen-from-africa-under-the-guise-of-adoption/) - Each year hundreds of African children are abducted and brought to the United States..... Source: Watch How Thousands of Children Are Being Stolen From Africa Under the Guise of Adoption https://adoptionland.org/huffingtonpost-article/ https://adoptionland.org/p/6471/manufactured-orphans/ For news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here.
- [Blood Memory Documentary](https://adoptionland.org/10945/blood-memory-documentary/) - A Story of Removal and Return Blood Memory Website here.
- [Adoption Healing](https://adoptionland.org/3888/adoption-healing-post/) - Understanding the Wound In this important series you will begin to understand how having been adopted may be affecting many aspects of your life. It is encouraged that all three parts are viewed. Part 1: In this episode Shavasti shares his work with adoptees and introduces us to a fresh way of looking at
- [A Search for Family in Haiti Raises Questions about Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/2099/a-search-for-family-in-haiti-raises-questions-about-adoption/) - November 27, 2015 | Ben Fox | AP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsSkjJWVMpI PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Mariette Williams waited for her flight from South Florida to Haiti, she paced the departure lounge, folding and re-folding her ticket and clutching the handle of a bag sagging with gifts. She was excited but terrified: For the first time in nearly
- [Adoption Agencies Are Separating African Children From Their Parents](https://adoptionland.org/7673/adoption-agencies-are-separating-african-children-from-their-parents/) - Fly Away Home (2010): Exposing the harrowing reality behind the practices of some international adoption agencies.
- [Child Trafficking and Adoption in Haiti](https://adoptionland.org/5229/child-trafficking-and-adoption-in-haiti/) - Earthquake in Haiti: The Pornography of Poverty and the Politics of Development by JULIAN VIGO UNICEF estimates that approximately 300,000 Haitian children are restavèk (child slaves) and that 3,000 children are trafficked out of Haiti each year. However, these figures are widely considered conservative both because there are no serious studies to date on this
- [International adoption: Stolen from Africa just like a slave](https://adoptionland.org/7675/international-adoption-stolen-from-africa-just-like-a-slave/) - MSNBC - Melissa Victoria Harris-Perry is an American writer, professor, television host, and political commentator with a focus on African-American politics. https://youtu.be/ufmQygpOhn0 https://adoptionland.org/adoptionland-from-orphan-to-activist/
- [Parents sue after adopting Chinese girl, 8, with spina bifida only to find she is also deaf, blind, has hepatitis C, epilepsy, and scoliosis](https://adoptionland.org/4551/parents-sue-after-adopting-chinese-girl-8-with-spina-bifida-only-to-find-she-is-also-deaf-blind-has-hepatitis-c-epilepsy-and-scoliosis/) - The front featured photo: Robert Meeker with his adopted daughter, Carys. Robert and Amy Meeker, from Dallas, Texas, agreed to adopt Chinese girl Parents told Carys, eight, had spinda bifida but agreed to take her anyway But when she arrived at their home, couple found a host of other issues They say girl is blind,
- [Your baby is dead: Mothers say their supposedly stillborn babies were stolen from them](https://adoptionland.org/2276/your-baby-is-dead-mothers-say-their-supposedly-stillborn-babies-were-stolen-from-them/) - This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an injection. She blacked out, and when she started to come to, a male voice said: “knock her out.” She claimed she
- [Georgia Tann Adoption Scandal](https://adoptionland.org/10065/georgia-tann-adoption-scandal/) - Ever wondered what adopted people are saying today about adoption? https://adoptionland.org/adoptionland-from-orphan-to-activist/
- [Co-workers for two years discover they're father and son](https://adoptionland.org/10282/co-workers-discover-they-are-father-and-son/) - Ever wondered what adopted people are saying today about adoption? https://adoptionland.org/adoptionland-from-orphan-to-activist/
- [Girl in Return: A Teenager Reclaims her Identity and Fights the Adoption System.](https://adoptionland.org/9939/girl-in-return-a-teenager-reclaims-her-identity-and-fights-the-adoption-system/) - Years after being adopted from Ethiopia to Denmark, a teenager reclaims her identity and fights the adoption system.
- [Designer Conception](https://adoptionland.org/10111/designer-conception/) - Designer Conception w/ DC activist Zave Fors Hosted by Not Your Orphan: Today I was lucky to speak with Designer-Conceived activist Zave Fors; about the similarities and differences between Adoptee and DC identity, trauma, and legal restrictions. It is VERY important that our discussions include how child rights are affected not just through adoption and
- [Briefing You Should Listen to About Forced Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/10440/forced-adoption/) - A briefing is given to New Zealand Social Services and Community Committee on matters relating to forced adoption, July 1st, 2020 "Dear friends in our worldwide adoption community. I'm in New Zealand. I gave evidence before a government committee briefing on matters relating to forced adoptions. The committee paid close attention. They asked good questions
- [Long Lost Family (UK) Season 7, Episode 6](https://adoptionland.org/10069/long-lost-family-uk-season-7-episode-6/) - Long Lost Family UK Season 07 Episode 06 features two stories of childhood loss: a daughter whose only link to her father is a letter and a woman searching for her twin sisters after more than 60 years apart. Presented by Davina McCall, Nicky Campbell Networks: ITV, STV Executive producers: Colette Flight, Leanne Klein, Sally
- [Operation Babylift](https://adoptionland.org/3279/operation-babylift/) - Cath Turner is a reporter for Al Jazeera news channel. Cath also happens to be a victim of the "Operation Babylift" that was organized by the US Government during the Vietnam war, flying-out thousands of babies during the conflict. Cath has been a subject of an award-winning documentary that investigates her life story of searching
- [Magdalene Laundries: 20 years since the last laundry closed in Ireland, five survivors tell their heartbreaking stories](https://adoptionland.org/5787/magdalene-laundries/) - THIS weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland. On September 25 1996, Ireland’s final laundry, which was located on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin and run by the Sisters of Our Lady, closed its doors for good. While it’s not known for definite, it’s estimated that 10,000 women were institutionalised in
- [Saving the World's "Orphans"](https://adoptionland.org/6241/saving-the-worlds-orphans/) - In the years leading up to its accession to the EU, Romania was forced to reform its child rights policy. It was one of the many conditions for its future EU membership. From 1999 to 2006, a brave woman called Roelie Post, a public servant at the European Commission, worked tirelessly on the Romanian case
- [Intercountry adoptee, Patrick Noordoven, has successfully been granted some justice for his illegal adoption!](https://adoptionland.org/8365/intercountry-adoptee-patrick-noordoven-has-successfully-been-granted-some-justice-for-his-illegal-adoption/) - Intercountry adoptee, Patrick Noordoven, has successfully been granted some justice for his illegal adoption! Patrick Noordoven is an inspiration for his persistence to fight for his right to identity and break new ground in an area that until now, had remained impossible for many intercountry adoptees! This outcome is historical and paves the way for
- [We want all adopters from Chile to be reviewed](https://adoptionland.org/8096/we-want-all-adopters-from-chile-to-be-reviewed/) - 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
- [What is Adoption Trafficking?](https://adoptionland.org/7755/what-is-adoption-trafficking/) - A mother who is a monk must borrow money. The lender tells her of a Christian home that would provide and train her two children for nothing. So the mother can work more to pay back the loan faster. But her children will not see her again for many years. They have been sold to
- [Child Trafficking for International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/9090/child-trafficking-for-international-adoption/)
- [They rescue 23 victims of trafficking in “a factory to make babies” in Nigeria](https://adoptionland.org/9745/victims-of-trafficking-in-a-factory-to-make-babies-in-nigeria/) - The Nigerian Police rescued 19 pregnant women and 4 children victims of human trafficking in a “factory to make babies” in the city of Lagos, where they were forced to become pregnant and sell their newborns, said Monday police spokesman
- [Myka Stauffer rehomes inter-country adoptee from China](https://adoptionland.org/10132/myka-stauffer-rehomes-inter-country-adoptee-from-china/) - Adoption Disruption, Abandonment, Trauma... As I'm sure many of you know I'm a strong-minded individual who values the voices of adoptees and to know that a YouTube Influencer and her hubby (Myka and James Stauffer) decided to showcase their lives so the world could witness their flashy dashy ways...I'm shaking my head hard. For all
- [The Dark Side of Chinese Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/766/the-dark-side-of-chinese-adoptions/) - Six orphanages were found to have been buying babies who were then adopted by families from other countries. One of the convicted middlemen in that case is now out of jail. He and his mother spoke to our China correspondent, Marketplace's Scott Tong. SCOTT TONG: As Chen Zhijing tells it, her family stumbled into the
- [Donor Dad](https://adoptionland.org/10106/donor-dad/) - In the space of a few seconds, Ken Allen’s life was turned upside down, changed forever. The schoolteacher was on a lunch break when he got the startling news - he was the father of eleven children he never knew he had. Steve Pennells takes us on a highly emotional journey as Ken meets his
- [Bethany Christian Adoption Services](https://adoptionland.org/9862/bethany-christian-adoption-services/) - Are you thinking about adopting a child? Do you have any questions about adoption? Don't know who to ask? Join the FREE discussion first before you write the $30,000 check. It's free to join.
- [Children Stolen for Adoption from Guatemala](https://adoptionland.org/9970/children-stolen-for-adoption-from-guatemala/) - https://adoptionland.org/9828/lets-talk-adoption-2/ https://adoptionland.org/8518/the-revolutionary-orphan-collective/
- [Dr. Hicks and Adoption Trafficking: Taken at Birth](https://adoptionland.org/9792/dr-hicks-and-adoption-trafficking-taken-at-birth/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=ESyhEzX7WNo TLC's "Taken at Birth" shares untold stories of the "Hicks Babies," more than 200 newborn babies illegally sold or given away from the back steps of a small-town Georgia clinic run by Dr. Thomas J. Hicks during the 1950s and 1960s. The three-night special airs Wednesday, October 9 through Friday, October 11 from 9PM-11PM
- [A Daughter's Journey](https://adoptionland.org/9398/a-daughters-journey/) - Follow the twists and turns of an inter-country adoptee from Zimbabwe to Australia, looking for answers.
- [Oprah Reveals She Has A Sister | Oprah Winfrey Show | Oprah Winfrey Network](https://adoptionland.org/9418/oprah-reveals-she-has-a-sister-oprah-winfrey-show-oprah-winfrey-network/) - Patricia: "All these years I wondered who my birth mother was, and she lived 10 minutes from me in the same city, amazing."
- [Baby mix-up scandal women now planning legal action against adoption society](https://adoptionland.org/9496/baby-mix-up-scandal-legal-action-against-adoption-agency/) - by Shane Phelan The women at the center of the St Patrick's Guild baby mix-up scandal are seeking court approval to bring lawsuits against the former adoption society. A joint application on behalf of Helen Maguire (71) and Christine Skipsey (52) was filed with the High Court by their solicitors last week, the Irish Independent
- [Adopter sentenced to life in prison for the death of the 3-year-old girl he adopted from India.](https://adoptionland.org/9281/holt-3-year-old-adoptee-murdered-adopter-sentenced-life-in-prison/) - Wesley Mathews, the father of his adopted child Sherin Mathews – who was three years old when she was found dead in 2017 in Texas, was sentenced to life in prison by a jury last week, after he pled guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child by omission.
- [International Adoption Could Disappear within Four Years](https://adoptionland.org/9258/international-adoption-could-disappear-within-four-years/) - It is estimated by the owner of adoption.com that International Adoption will phase out in 4 years.
- [Adopted Child, Deported Adult. Wazulu's Story](https://adoptionland.org/9073/adopted-child-deported-adult-wazulus-story/) - Wazulu was born in India and adopted as a child. He was taken to the USA at the age of 12 to live with American parents and for the next twenty years he studied and lived as an American. A brilliant musician, Wazulu was gaining recognition as a performer and producer of an original style
- [What is the true cost of adoption?](https://adoptionland.org/8547/how-much-does-it-cost-for-an-adoption-cost-2019/) - How much does an adoption cost? The average cost of an adoption is $30,000 maybe even up to $50,000 and is billion dollar business. The price of a newborn baby runs to tens of thousands. covering the costs of agencies, legal fees, and covering the costs of the mother. Louis Theroux meets a family paying out huge
- [Adoption Lobby](https://adoptionland.org/8298/adoption-lobby/) - "One has to understand why these programs are made. This is done by an adoption agency that first needs money, and this kind of emotions obviously brings a lot of money. With this money, one can open children's homes. First, with donations homes will be built. Then children will be lured into them away from
- [Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/8275/indigenous-children-forcibly-removed-from-their-mothers-and-placed-into-adoption/) - “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
- [Adoption Mafia](https://adoptionland.org/8241/adoption-mafia/) - Roelie Post is a whistleblower who has worked more than 35 years for the European Commission but has recently been fired because she refused to put up with the threats and bullying she has received after exposing a child trafficking scandal in Romania.
- [Child Trafficking: Victim representatives call for immediate help for adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/8227/child-trafficking-immediate-help-for-adoptees/) - 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
- [Chile's stolen children:  American woman finds her Chilean mother 36 years after birth](https://adoptionland.org/8199/chiles-stolen-children-american-woman-finds-her-chilean-mother-36-years-after-birth/) - By Rafael Romo Senior Latin American Affairs Editor (CNN) Growing up in Minneapolis, Alisa Clare Cohen constantly wondered whether her birth parents in Chile really abandoned her. Nearly four decades passed before she learned the truth. "The story that I was told was that my (biological) family had essentially never meant to keep me," Cohen said. Her now-deceased
- ['I was looking for my mother but found my twin instead'](https://adoptionland.org/8171/i-was-looking-for-my-mother-but-found-my-twin-instead/) - By Shaili Bhatt BBC News Gujarati "The first time I saw my brother, I just froze. "I couldn't say anything. We sat down on the sofa in his house. There was silence. Then I started to cry. "The first words he said to me were 'don't cry'. Then he took my hand. Everyone who was
- [The Netherlands should facilitate DNA research in adoptive countries: 'Take responsibility now'](https://adoptionland.org/8130/the-netherlands-should-facilitate-dna-research-in-adoptive-countries-take-responsibility-now/) - In recent times, the discussion about the role of the Dutch government in adoption cases has flared up, partly because some adoptees want to hold the state liable for damage suffered. Adoption of foreign children started in the seventies and was organized for a long time by private foundations with good contacts in countries such
- [Child Trafficking Through International Adoption Continues Despite Regulations](https://adoptionland.org/8080/child-trafficking-through-international-adoption-continues-despite-regulations/) - 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
- [Hold the adoption agencies and authorities responsible for unethical adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/8025/hold-the-adoption-agencies-and-authorities-responsible-for-unethical-adoptions/) - 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.
- [Most of the children still have parents](https://adoptionland.org/7897/most-of-the-children-still-have-parents/) - An orphanage using the name of an Australian Bali bombing victim has been accused of sourcing children with living parents from a remote island to help solicit donations from western tourists. Former workers at Jodie O’Shea House, one of Bali’s biggest institutions for children, made a detailed complaint about its activities to Save the Children, which passed it
- [Adoptive parents pass on unwanted children to strangers via internet](https://adoptionland.org/7845/adoptive-parents-pass-on-unwanted-children-to-strangers-via-internet/) - "Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been alerted by the media to the worrying trend of so-called online re-homing for adopted children. The term describes transactions between foster parents who want to get rid of kids they regret adopting, to strangers who can't or won't adopt through legal channels. Marina Portnaya investigates what turns out to
- [Scores of Children Illegally Adopted](https://adoptionland.org/7816/scores-of-children-illegally-adopted/) - Dr. Irene Creedon took in babies from vulnerable mothers at her surgery She allowed adoptive parents to register children as their own Operations uncovered by mother-of-two when she began tracing her birth A well-known family doctor arranged scores of illicit and illegal adoptions across the nation over at least two decades, the Irish Mail on
- [Korean adoptee died alone searching for his roots.](https://adoptionland.org/7813/korean-adoptee-holt-international-died-alone-searching-for-his-roots/) - The child who went on the road to adoption 37 years ago, temporarily returned home in his middle age, anxiously searched for his biological parents and at the end turned to ashes. He who wandered the whole country searching for his blood relatives, he could not feel the affection of his blood relatives and died
- [Ethiopia bans foreign adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/7804/ethiopia-bans-foreign-adoptions/) - Ethiopia has banned the adoption of children by foreigners amid concerns they face abuse and neglect abroad. Ethiopia is one of the biggest source countries for international adoptions by US citizens, accounting for about 20% of the total. Celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are among those who have adopted children from Ethiopia. However, in
- [India suspends U.S. adoption agency](https://adoptionland.org/7795/india-suspends-u-s-adoption-agency/) - Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi took the decision to suspend Holt International, the authorized foreign adoption agency. The Centre has suspended an American adoption agency for “negligence” in its assessment of adoptive parents of three-year-old India-born Sherin Mathews who died in the U.S., government sources said. Sherin Mathews, who was adopted by an
- [Adopted man found dead after returning to Korea to find his biological parents](https://adoptionland.org/7777/adopted-man-found-dead-after-returning-to-korea-to-find-his-biological-parents-2/) - A 45-year-old man was found dead in a goshitel (cheap one-bedroom intended for students to live in to focus solely on studying). The man was sent to Norway at the age 8 for adoption. Four years ago in 2013, the man with Norweigan citizenship returned to his motherland to find his biological parents. Unfortunately, he
- [Adopted Chinese children search for biological parents in bid to understand past](https://adoptionland.org/7773/adopted-chinese-children-search-for-biological-parents-in-bid-to-understand-past/) - "I am 200 percent sure that she is my daughter… Now I'm calling all of my relatives," a father from East China's Jiangxi Province wrote on October 19 after spending 24 years searching for his second daughter, who was sent to a foster home and adopted in the US in 1993. The message was sent
- [ACT USA Reflections of 2017](https://adoptionland.org/7866/actusa-reflections-of-2017/) - To read the whole article click here: ACT USA 2018 Newsletter If you would like to give a Gift of Hope to help families reunite, please donate.
- [What happens to Indian children after they are given up for adoption to overseas adopters?](https://adoptionland.org/9287/what-happens-to-indian-children-after-they-are-given-up-for-adoption-to-overseas-adopters/) - Megha Varier, The NEWS Minute Saraswati was an infant when she was abandoned by her parents in Gaya district in Bihar. She was taken in by an NGO based out of Nalanda. When she was two-and-half years old, a Kerala couple Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews, adopted her in July 2016. Saraswati became Sherin and
- [The 'orphan' I adopted from Uganda already had a family - CNN](https://adoptionland.org/7664/the-orphan-i-adopted-from-uganda-already-had-a-family-cnn/) - "CNN investigation has uncovered children purposely being orphaned, Mothers thinking they are temporarily giving up their children to be educated, instead, they're sold to adoptive families who think they are taking an orphan in need." Anderson Cooper For original CNN investigational report, visit here. Adam and I thoroughly researched at each step of the process
- [Death of toddler adopted from India prompts calls to end intercountry adoptions -- Reuters](https://adoptionland.org/7662/death-of-toddler-adopted-from-india-prompts-calls-to-end-intercountry-adoptions-reuters/) - Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The death in Texas of a three-year-old girl adopted from India a year ago has prompted renewed calls for an end to international adoptions, which campaigners say put vulnerable children at risk of abuse. The girl’s adoptive father, Wesley Mathews, was charged on Monday with injury to a
- [Does India follow up on kids adopted abroad?](https://adoptionland.org/7656/does-india-follow-up-on-kids-adopted-abroad/) - What happens to Indian children after they are given up for adoption to NRI/ overseas parents? Saraswati was an infant when she was abandoned by her parents in Gaya district in Bihar. She was taken in by an NGO based out of Nalanda. When she was two-and-half years old, a Kerala couple Wesley Mathews and
- [Ethiopian government to ban child adoption by foreigners](https://adoptionland.org/7591/ethiopian-government-to-ban-child-adoption-by-foreigners/) - borkena, Ethiopian News October 12,2017 Ethiopian parliament is to review draft Ethiopian family law which will make it impossible for foreigners to adopt a child from Ethiopia, reported Ethiopian Reporter. The review is predicated on “widespread case of identity crisis that children adopted by foreign families face and based on the premise that foreign families could
- [Inter-Country Adoption Racket Exposed!](https://adoptionland.org/7585/inter-country-adoption-racket-exposed/) - For tourists the pediatric ward resembled a supermarket When a DNA database is created it was certain that our papers were fraud, because through DNA we have the proof of family ties. Sometimes these contact persons say I have located your mother, but they don’t reveal the address. The adoption agencies from western
- [African Children being sold to U.S. families -- CNN report](https://adoptionland.org/7581/african-children-being-sold-to-adoption-families-cnn/) - The Davises shared their story exclusively with CNN, saying they believe that Ugandan children like Mata are being trafficked, with American families not knowing the real stories behind their adoptions. An investigation by CNN into this alleged trafficking scheme found that children are being taken from their homes in Uganda on the promise of better
- [3-Year-Old adopted child from India Missing Since Saturday](https://adoptionland.org/7556/3-year-old-indian-adopted-child-missing-since-saturday/) - FBI Evidence Team Now at Home of Missing 3-Year-Old The search is continuing for the child, who was reportedly last seen by her father, 37-year-old Wesley Mathews, at about 3 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Sunningdale in Richardson. An Amber Alert was discontinued Monday afternoon, because there has been no new information in
- [Canada to Pay Millions in Indigenous Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/7547/canada-to-pay-millions-in-indigenous-lawsuit-over-forced-adoptions/) - By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world. On Friday, the Canadian government took a step to make amends for that adoption program, which began in the 1960s and lasted till the
- [Adoption Agency Complaint](https://adoptionland.org/7499/adoption-agency-complaint-government/) - Would you like to help? Email admin@adoptiontruth.org
- [It's Time to Reassess Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/6391/reassess-adoption/) - 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.
- [American To Stand Trial Over Guatemalan Adoptions - NPR News](https://adoptionland.org/6754/american-to-stand-trial-over-guatemalan-adoptions-npr-news/) - Guatemala was once one of the world's most popular adoption destinations, but stopped the practice after mass corruption was exposed. An American woman is set to stand trial over related charges. To hear the NPR news visit this site. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Guatemala was once one of the most popular countries for foreign adoption, just
- [China’s Child Laundering Industry](https://adoptionland.org/6706/chinas-child-laundering-industry/) - Parents in China have for years faced an agonizing prospect: having their child abducted and sold into a trafficking ring. The problem is remarkably common and intractable, with tens of thousands of children going missing in the country every year. The industry that has sprung up around child trafficking—involving the police, doctors, nurses, and hospitals—explains
- [Newborn traffickers preyed on unwed mothers, booked babies in advance for sale](https://adoptionland.org/6696/newborn-traffickers-preyed-on-unwed-mothers-booked-babies-in-advance-for-sale/) - Racket operators took advance money from a couple just by showing them a pregnant woman whose baby they would have passed on to them. The newborn traffickers of Jalpaiguri were constantly on the lookout for unwed mothers who were not in a position to keep and rear their children, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths have
- [West Bengal: Child trafficking accused BJP leader held near Nepal border](https://adoptionland.org/6686/child-trafficking-nepal-border/) - BJP leader Juhi Chowdhury, suspected to be involved in the sensational child trafficking racket in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, was arrested on Monday night close to the India-Nepal border in Darjeeling district by CID sleuths, police said.Chowdhury, who was on the run for the last few days after her name was linked to the case
- [Invisible Woman](https://adoptionland.org/6638/invisible-woman/) - I definitely recommend Grace Harstad's Invisible Woman: A Birth Mother's Memoir for the public and particularly for young women—if we as a global society want to protect mothers from adoption loss. As someone who has researched adoption internationally, historically, from the front door through to the back, nothing seems to surprise me anymore when it
- [In Hyunsu's Memory](https://adoptionland.org/6618/in-hyunsus-memory/) - I am writing this letter on behalf of Hyunsu’s life and in his memory. This letter is to Hyunsu’s Korean mother, Foster mother and ALL Mothers who want to protect their children, because I believe our children are an extension of ourselves. First, I am so sorry of his tragic death and my greatest hope
- [Jolie's adoption nightmare](https://adoptionland.org/6613/jolies-adoption-nightmare/) - By Mark Baker , Asia Editor Phnom Penh Angelina Jolie with her adopted Cambodian son, Maddox. Photo: AAP An American agent who arranged a controversial Cambodian adoption for actress Angelina Jolie is reportedly planning to surrender to US authorities to face charges of visa fraud and money laundering. Lauryn Galindo, a former Hawaiian hula dancer,
- [International Adoption Agency Raided by the FBI](https://adoptionland.org/6537/international-adoption-agency-raided-by-the-fbi/) - Chris Tye, WKYC 11:14 PM. EST February 14, 2017 Strongsville – The FBI has confirmed to Channel 3 News that they executed a raid on a Strongsville international adoption agency Tuesday morning. Back in December the U.S. Department of State debarred European Adoption Consultants (EAC) from continued operation citing “a pattern of serious, willful, or
- [Manufactured Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/6471/manufactured-orphans/) - The documentary Manufactured Orphans will air on Jan. 31 at 8pm Singapore time. "Nearly 90% of the estimated 143 million children in orphanages worldwide are not orphans at all. They are systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. The adoption industry is a huge market driven by money where orphans are ‘manufactured’.
- [Orphan Adoption or Child Trafficking?](https://adoptionland.org/6433/orphan-adoption-or-child-trafficking/) - The Truth. Published on Jan 15, 2017 Today's video is about a sensitive issue: orphanages and adoption. Is our Western demand for orphans fueling an international adoption industry? I discuss what I've learned, and alternatives that exist. https://adoptionland.org/p/6279/being-called-anti-adoption/ To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here or to read the Huffington Post article on
- [President Barack Obama](https://adoptionland.org/6372/president-barack-obama/) - January 10, 2017 President Barack Obama Attn: Neil Eggleston, Senior White House Counsel 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20500 We ask that you please pardon Sandy Musser. Sandy lost a child to adoption in 1954 during a time called the Baby Scoop Era. This era started after the end of World War II. A
- [“Certificate of Orphanhood”](https://adoptionland.org/6332/certificate-of-orphanhood/) - Every child who enters an orphanage comes from a family—a family who needs help and could provide care if the money spent on adoption was used to uplift and rebuild the family. Many parents in other countries perceive orphanages to be community centers, boarding schools, temporary housing, hostels, hospitals. Do not assume that the children
- [Being called 'anti-adoption'?](https://adoptionland.org/6279/being-called-anti-adoption/) - 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
- [Baby Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/6260/roelie-post-in-the-traffickers/) - When my sister and I were sent to the United States from South Korea in 1972, the pioneering adoption agency gave our adoptive parents a document called “Certificate of Orphanhood”. This piece of paper gave the impression that we were orphans. Because this document implied that we had no Korean family, we wore whole new
- [Story of Tingert](https://adoptionland.org/5960/international-adoption-story-of-tingert/) - Contributor - Rebecca Hailemeskel The 36-year-old, Tingert, was born in Wonji Shoa. She is a healthy-looking young woman and is an Orthodox Christian. Her mother and father came to Wonji Shoa to look for a job. They got employed for a blue-collar work in Wonji sugar factory and stayed in Wonji Shoa. She was raised
- [Story of Meseret](https://adoptionland.org/5964/international-adoption-story-of-meseret/) - Contributor – Rebecca Hailemeskel Her name is Messert, an Orthodox believer. She is 35 years old and was born in Wonji Shoa located 110 km from Addis Ababa. Her parents used to work in the sugar factory that is located in the area. She has two brothers: one brother lives in Adama 10 km from
- [Story of Lemlem](https://adoptionland.org/5968/international-adoption-story-of-lemlem/) - Contributor – Rebecca Hailemeskel Lemlem’s story is narrated by herself as well as her brother Bisrat since Lemlem is having a depression for which she is being treated at the center for victims of human trafficking. Lemlem remembers what has happened to her. However, it is difficult for her to narrate her story as there
- [First Light](https://adoptionland.org/5800/first-light/) - "Imagine your about to have a little one...the love you have for that little one...then imagine somebody outside of your family you don't even know, making claims on your little one....they don't like the way you live...and they are going to take your little one by force. Imagine what the loss is when this is
- [Adam Crapser to be Deported](https://adoptionland.org/5974/adam-crapser-to-be-deported-update/) - In the spring of 1979, Adam Crapser (today a father of three children), was adopted from South Korea to the United States. Despite being adopted by two sets of United States citizens and believing for decades he was a citizen of the United States, he is in the process of being deported back to South Korea. Adam does not speak the Korean language and will
- [Understanding the Complexities of Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/5746/understanding-the-complexities-of-adoption/) - Mae was trafficked from Haiti by white adoptive parents who purchased a birth certificate of a deceased child. That birth certificate became her identity. Her earliest memory of Haiti was going to a vodoo ceremony when her new parents returned to complete the adoption. She also remembers falling off the bunk bed in her new home in Haiti, hitting her head, and her
- [Official Involved in Birth Certificate Fraud Turns Himself In](https://adoptionland.org/5668/official-involved-in-birth-certificate-fraud-turns-himself-in/) - By Fan Yiying In China, fake documents obtained from the black market can be used to legitimize trafficked children. Government official who for years sold fake birth certificates has surrendered himself to the authorities, Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper reported on Thursday. Falsified documents can be used to legitimize trafficked children and babies born
- [China’s Illicit Adoption Market Goes Online](https://adoptionland.org/5652/chinas-illicit-adoption-market-goes-online/) - by Cai Yiwen Children traded through chat groups and forums could be trafficked, warns lawyer. With China’s often long and cumbersome adoption process, many prospective parents are turning to internet chat groups to buy children instead, The Beijing News reported Tuesday. On messaging app QQ, the more than 470 members of the “Home to Fulfill Your
- [Adoption - Given or Taken](https://adoptionland.org/5713/adoption-given-or-taken/) - Four Corners ABC 2-3-12 "People think your a bad person because you gave your baby away, they need to know we didn't give our babies away. We weren't given our babies in the first place.....can't give away something you didn't get." Mother of adoption loss Follow us: @adoptiontraffic / Adoption Trafficking – FB For more news on
- [Tears for Views: Reality TV for Loved Ones Lost](https://adoptionland.org/5658/china-adoption-tears-for-views-reality-tv-for-loved-ones-lost/) - by Owen Churchill and Li You ‘Waiting for Me’ helps desperate families track down missing relatives, provided they are willing to relive trauma on stage. Song Xianzhong is talking through the photos of his grandchildren that hang above the bed. “This one is my granddaughter. Everyone says she looked like a boy when she was
- [East African Nations To Ban Foreigners From Adopting African Children](https://adoptionland.org/5569/east-african-nations-to-ban-foreigners-from-adopting-african-children/) - By: Divta Asiimwe AFRICANGLOBE – Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, who are currently sitting in Kampala, want EAC partner states to abolish international child adoption to stop the likelihood of children falling into the hands of traffickers. EALA on August 19 passed a general-purpose report on the rights of the child, which wants
- [One Man's Search For Home](https://adoptionland.org/5516/one-mans-search-for-home/) - "Lion" Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Dev Patel Movie Starring: Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, Dev Patel Lion Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Dev Patel Movie Follow us: @adoptiontraffic / Adoptionland – FB For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org
- [Fusion: AdoptionTrafficking](https://adoptionland.org/6679/fusion-adoptiontrafficking/) - Roelie Post interviewed here: The Traffickers, The Dark Side of Adoption, available on Netflix here. FUSION PRESENTS: The Trafficker Click on the link below for the episode preview: The Dark Side of Adoption Inside the underworld of international adoption Who’s really profiting from international adoptions? Is this adoption agency selling children? In many developing countries the
- [When I Met my Twin and Biological Family in Korea after Separation since Birth](https://adoptionland.org/5482/when-i-met-my-twin-and-biological-family-in-korea-after-separation-since-birth/) - My Adoption Story This video shows when I learned of my adoption story. I am a Korean adoptee who was separated since birth from my family. I grew up in the U.S. and met my twin and biological family for the first time last May of 2015. Now, after a year, I am living in
- [Dateline asks whether these children are being saved, or stolen.](https://adoptionland.org/7671/dateline-asks-whether-these-children-are-being-saved-or-stolen/) - Why are so many parents in Norway claiming that the state is kidnapping their children? With a spike in cases in recent years and accusations of racial intolerance, Dateline asks whether these children are being saved, or stolen.
- [The Trouble with International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/4953/the-trouble-with-international-adoption/) - by Goorish Wibneh Imagine one of the millions of children orphaned by AIDS finding a loving home with a well-to-do Seattle couple who desperately want to become parents. But the real picture isn’t always so pretty. Corruption and fraud mean waiting orphans may never get the chance to have a second family. Meanwhile, other children whose parents are still alive, but
- [Toddler’s murder reopens old wounds for Korean adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/5311/toddlers-murder-reopens-old-wounds-for-korean-adoptees/) - Shannon Heit, 33, trembled with rage as she recalled the moment two months ago when she heard that a Korean boy had been killed by his adoptive father in the U.S. Heit, a freelance translator in Seoul, is not related to the boy. But she said that, as a Korean-American adoptee herself, she felt a
- [Korean American adoptees furious at light sentence for toddler killer](https://adoptionland.org/5282/korean-american-adoptees-furious-at-light-sentence-for-toddler-killer/) - DAMASCUS, MD (WUSA9) — - Advocates for children adopted from South Korea are furious about the light sentence handed on Tuesday to a Marine Corps vet who killed his 3-year-old adopted son. Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan was buried here in an all but unmarked grave. Adult adoptees from South Korea want to know how it's possible that the
- [Israel Delves Into Charged 1950s Missing Children Saga](https://adoptionland.org/5258/israel-delves-into-charged-1950s-missing-children-saga/) - By ARON HELLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS The stories have been circulating in Israel for decades: Newborn babies and young children of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries mysteriously disappeared shortly after arriving in the country, purportedly snatched away and given to childless couples of European backgrounds. Although a series of inquiries have dismissed claims of abductions, the accusations
- [A Ring of Scammers Is Trolling Adoption Websites and Duping Desperate Couples](https://adoptionland.org/5266/a-ring-of-scammers-is-trolling-adoption-websites-and-duping-desperate-couples/) - By Anna Merlan South Carolina’s Post and Courier has a bizarre and heartbreaking story today about adoption scammers, who are tricking desperate childless couples and then vanishing. The truly weird thing: some of them aren’t doing it for money, but instead, as the paper puts it, “for the sheer sport of breaking some stranger’s heart.”
- [The American babies sold for as little as $100 in black-market adoption trade](https://adoptionland.org/4928/the-american-babies-sold-for-as-little-as-100-in-black-market-adoption-trade/) - By Philip Sherwell, New York Gertrude Pitkanen conducted illegal abortions and sold unwanted babies in Montana from the 1920s for three decades. Now "Gertie's Babies" are using new DNA-sharing websites to try to find relatives. They call themselves Gertie's Babies, but they are all ageing adults now, connected only by the furtive manner in which
- [Imagine being told your child is dead, only to find out he is actually alive!](https://adoptionland.org/2850/imagine-being-told-your-child-is-dead-only-to-find-out-he-is-actually-alive/) - With orphanages being closed, Grace Center is receiving more and more children in the full-time residential care facility, known to many as the children's home or temporary care center. Six of our children came from one corrupt orphanage when it was closed. All of these children have different stories of how they actually came to
- [KPAI suspects trafficking behind missing "twin" case](https://adoptionland.org/5107/kpai-suspects-trafficking-behind-missing-twin-case/) - The National Commission for Child Protection (Komnas PA) has called on the HJ hospital, where a mother claims one of her twins was stolen after a cesarean section, to explain as the case indicates baby trafficking. Komnas PA chairman Arist Merdeka Sirait said he had received a report from Raudiah Elva Ningsih, 37, and an
- [The Strange History of the Birth Certificate](https://adoptionland.org/4960/the-strange-history-of-the-birth-certificate/) - Recently, my mother unearthed my birth certificate and sent it to me. There, typed on a manual typewriter, were my name, the date and time of birth, the name of the hospital, and the names and race of both my parents. According to the certificate, I was not a twin or triplet, did not have
- [Nigeria’s baby mills victimize vulnerable mothers, sell infants on black market](https://adoptionland.org/5105/nigerias-baby-mills-victimize-vulnerable-mothers-sell-infants-on-black-market/) - By Ali Abare Abubakar - Special to The Washington Times - - Monday, June 13, 2016 Enunu, Nigeria — Four months pregnant, Ugwu Christabel, a scared 17-year-old from Aku in southeastern Nigeria, looked to the heavens for help after her parents threw her out of their home. Then she looked to the Tex Hospital and Maternity
- [The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters](https://adoptionland.org/4957/the-truth-about-chinas-missing-daughters/) - A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons. BY KATHRYN JOYCE June 1, 2016 In 2011, when I was researching a book on international adoption, I met a man who made the incredible claim that he had founded a benevolent child-trafficking ring in China, whisking baby girls away from near-certain infanticide to
- [Politicians close their eyes for adoptions backing](https://adoptionland.org/4987/politicians-close-their-eyes-for-adoptions-backing/) - One country after another closed down adoption because of suspected corruption and child trafficking. Yet Danish politicians are more concerned with ensuring childless families may adopt than to scrutinize the cases where adoption has gone wrong. KRONIKEN 31 MAY. 2016 Ethiopia is now definitively closed to Danish families who want to adopt. In March soc
- [A new narrative of transnational adoption](https://adoptionland.org/4934/a-new-narrative-of-transnational-adoption/) - Uprooting children from a foreign culture to start a new life in Denmark can be fraught with difficulty. Adoptees and experts reflect on the history of transnational adoption and offer their views on how to ease tensions and create a more inclusive society for children brought up in Denmark with complicated cultural ties. By Natasha
- [Former adoption agency owes clients €190,000](https://adoptionland.org/5208/former-adoption-agency-owes-clients-e190000/) - More than 70 prospective parents who wanted to adopt a child from abroad have been left some €190,000 out of pocket following the collapse of an accredited adoption agency. Arc Adoption, which was granted an official licence to facilitate people in Ireland seeking to adopt a child in China, Bulgaria and the US, closed in
- [Fake passport used to take adopted child Home](https://adoptionland.org/4875/fake-passport-used-to-take-adopted-child-home/) - By, Angel Tesorero/Dubai The Philippine consulate officials have caught a Filipina expat using a fake Philippine passport to bring her "adopted baby back home," Consul Ferdinand Flores revealed to reporters on Wednesday night. According to Flores, "the husband of the Filipina expat bought a bogus passport in the Philippines for P75,000 (Dh5,900) to take to
- [Adopted teen denied driving permit](https://adoptionland.org/4859/adopted-teen-denied-driving-permit/) - By, Madison Wade, WBIR A Knox County mother wants answers after her adoptive daughter from Guatemala was denied a driver's license permit twice. 16-year-old Emily Williams is eager to get behind the wheel in East Tennessee. She's been studying hard and practicing often to hopefully get her drivers permit soon. "I'll be like a normal
- [Shocker: Over 20 children go missing in Delhi every day](https://adoptionland.org/4701/shocker-over-20-children-go-missing-in-delhi-every-day/) - New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Over 20 children go missing every day in the national capital and most of them become victims of organised crimes like prostitution, pornography and organ trade, according to a child rights group. Child Rights and You (CRY) said that Delhi Police informed it in reply to a Right to Information
- [Inquiry into postwar adoption policies can start healing process](https://adoptionland.org/4703/inquiry-into-postwar-adoption-policies-can-start-healing-process/) - Hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were systematically and often violently separated from their babies simply because of their marital status. Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments funded draconian adoption policies that harmed unmarried mothers across Canada. This is being referred to by scholars as the “adoption
- [Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists](https://adoptionland.org/2979/adoptionland-from-orphans-to-activists-2/) - Compiled by the Vance Twins, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, is an indispensable contribution to adoption literature. The essays, poems and letters in this compilation reflect the thoughts, the feelings, the souls of those who inhabit AdoptionLand — a place of truth and acceptance for the casualties of the demand for children. “I feel like a
- [Lebanon's disappeared children: The darker side of international adoption](https://adoptionland.org/4689/lebanons-disappeared-children-the-darker-side-of-international-adoption/) - By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT - It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut's St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their
- [Widowed Mother Reunites With Son 25 Years After He Was Kidnapped](https://adoptionland.org/4683/widowed-mother-reunites-with-son-25-years-after-he-was-kidnapped/) - By Frank Fang | March 6, 2016. Even as a child Song Yangzhi somehow felt that he was adopted, even though his parents never told him directly. When he was little, he could recite two poems that his parents never taught him, and other kids called him “orphan boy.” It turns out that Song’s instincts
- [Adoptees have homes; their files can't find one](https://adoptionland.org/4661/adoptees-have-homes-their-files-cant-find-one/) - SYRACUSE, NY - Forty-eight boxes on wooden pallets take up a space 15 yards long and six yards wide in the basement of lawyer Robert Lahm's office building in Syracuse. Inside them are about 1,000 files carrying information about Central New Yorkers who were adopted over the past 20 years - their medical histories, their
- [Mexico adoption-for-cash scheme took babies from poor mothers](https://adoptionland.org/4516/mexico-adoption-for-cash-scheme-took-babies-from-poor-mothers/) - By Mark Stevenson | The Associated Press | Aug. 2015. MEXICO CITY – A child welfare official in northern Mexico took at least nine babies from poor or drug-addicted mothers and offered them to adoptive parents in exchange for payments ranging from $5,000 to $9,000, authorities said Friday. Raul Ramirez, the head of the government
- ["I do buy babies for N1 million and sell them in USA," a 60 year-old woman confesses.](https://adoptionland.org/4511/i-do-buy-babies-for-n1-million-and-sell-them-in-usa-a-60-year-old-woman-confesses/) - A 60-year-old grandmother, Asabi Adebayo, has told the Oyo State Police Command that she had a thriving baby trafficking ring where she allegedly bought five babies for the whopping sum of N5 million, at N1 million per baby, with the sole purpose of taking the babies to the United State of America, for sale. Adebayo
- [Couples devastated by adoption scam](https://adoptionland.org/4599/couples-devastated-by-adoption-scam/) - Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico have been left devastated by the affair, they said tonight. While the lawyer at the centre of the baby trafficking plot remains on the run, the families who returned home last weekend have insisted they believed they were acting legally. Offices belonging to
- [Adopting a Child in Islam](https://adoptionland.org/4541/adopting-a-child-in-islam/) - Islamic legal rulings about foster parenting and adoption By Huda The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said that a person who cares for an orphaned child will be in Paradise with him, and motioned to show that they would be as close as two fingers of a single hand. An orphan himself, Muhammad paid special
- [PART III: SEARCH FOR THEIR MOTHER](https://adoptionland.org/4501/part-iii-search-for-their-mother/) - 48 Hours brought the girls and their mothers to Guadalajara, where local guides, with the help of information from the adoption papers, took them back to the last known address of their birth mother – a woman named Norma De La Cruz. But no one in this working class neighborhood could tell the girls where
- [PART II: THE TWINS REUNION](https://adoptionland.org/4498/part-ii-the-twins-reunion/) - They decided to meet at a neutral spot, a McDonalds parking lot. Tamara brought her ex-boyfriend and her best friend for emotional support. "I see this girl with a big, black bubble jacket with dark long hair, and I'm like, 'That's Tamara.' And I couldn't look," says Adriana. "We both wore bubble jackets, jeans. Mine
- [Centre Lifts Adoption Veil](https://adoptionland.org/4536/centre-lifts-adoption-veil/) - New Delhi, April 30: Arun Dohle took 17 years to find his biological mother. Dohle, 43, was two months old when his mother surrendered him to a Pune-based adoption agency. A couple from Germany later adopted him. Years later, when he returned to India to search for his biological mother, the agency refused to share
- [Couple says adoption agency lied about child’s severe health problems](https://adoptionland.org/4448/couple-says-adoption-agency-lied-about-childs-severe-health-problems/) - A couple who adopted an 8-year-old girl from China knew she had special needs — but they claim they were duped by a Morningside Heights adoption agency about just how dire her health situation really was. Robert and Amy Meeker were aware that little Kaitlyn had spina bifida — a birth defect of the spinal
- [Family of Madonna's adopted daughter, Mercy, says they NEVER wanted to give her up](https://adoptionland.org/4522/family-of-madonnas-adopted-daughter-mercy-says-they-never-wanted-to-give-her-up/) - Madonna may have finally gotten over her rift with son Rocco, but it looks like there's a storm brewing in regards to her adopted Malawian daughter Mercy, who recently turned 10. Agatha Molande, the best friend of Mercy's biological mother, Mwandida Chekechiwa, a teenager who died just eight days after giving birth, is coming forward
- [Confronting the Sixties Scoop](https://adoptionland.org/4442/confronting-the-sixties-scoop/) - From the 1960s to the ’80s, some 20,000 Aboriginal children were removed from their homes and placed with non-Native families. Now adults, many want redress for the loss of cultural identity. By Anne Bokma Sally Susan Mathias was four years old in 1967 when child welfare services removed her and her six-year-old sister, Doris Lynn,
- [Zoe's ark: I am a child stolen at birth](https://adoptionland.org/2440/zoes-ark-i-am-a-child-stolen-at-birth/) - Purchased in Brazil and raised in France by an adoptive family, Kharla battled to trace her origins. The case of Zoé's Ark, tried in mid-February, reminds her how French law does not care. By Kharla Livingston-Lorrenzo, documentary film-maker, February 2014. On Friday February 14 [2014], the deliberation of the case known as "Zoe's Ark" will be released
- [Kids in care 'a billion-dollar business'](https://adoptionland.org/4445/kids-in-care-a-billion-dollar-business/) - Conference in Winnipeg focuses on needs of First Nations children A national advocate for First Nations children wants Manitoba to come clean on what it’s doing with federal child tax credits when kids in the province are put into care. "We’re talking millions and millions of dollars... I don’t know what the exact amount is
- [The Limits of Jurisdiction](https://adoptionland.org/257/the-limits-of-jurisdiction/) - It’s unclear how the two-year-old broke her femur, Dr. Napoleon Castillo Molinedo told me. The Guatemalan pediatrician regularly saw the child, identified as “Karen Abigail Lopéz García” in his office records, for check-up appointments and vaccinations. Firing up a weary PC, the doctor retrieved Karen’s old records, printing out a list: ten visits in the
- [Spanish nuns accused of stealing babies from vulnerable mothers](https://adoptionland.org/4493/spanish-nuns-accused-of-stealing-babies-from-vulnerable-mothers/) - A Franciscan convent in northern Spain is being investigated for selling babies Two Spanish nuns are being investigated under suspicion of stealing 13 babies from mothers who were forced to give them up for adoption. According to a report in The Times, Sisters Carmen Longarela Latas, 82, and Carmen Vázquez Lamela, 88, are being investigated
- [After 1950s forced adoption New Yorker is reunited with his Irish mother](https://adoptionland.org/3348/after-1950s-forced-adoption-new-yorker-is-reunited-with-his-irish-mother/) - Christopher Quirin, 63, was born to a single mother in Ireland in 1950, a time when such a thing was widely considered an unspeakable disgrace. Back then Quirin’s mother was sent by her parents to the now notorious Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, the same mothers and babies home as Philomena Lee. Lee
- [Sixties Scoop still not well-recognized, aboriginal adoptees say](https://adoptionland.org/4425/sixties-scoop-still-not-well-recognized-aboriginal-adoptees-say/) - Experts say exact numbers of aboriginal children adopted by Quebec families unclear By Ainslie MacLellan For decades, thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their parents, often without their consent or even their knowledge, and grew up never knowing their own culture. But a lot of Canadians don't know it. "My parents who adopted me had no idea
- [Korean Pastor helps adoptees find biological parents through DNA testing](https://adoptionland.org/4451/korean-pastor-helps-adoptees-find-biological-parents-through-dna-testing/) - By Kim Jae-won Pastor Kim Do-hyun is helping adoptees find their biological parents through DNA testing. He said that the tests will change the way adoptees search for their origins, which has so far relied on poorly kept documents from adoption agencies. “We call the DNA test the game changer because we expect this to
- [Black Market Babies?](https://adoptionland.org/4391/black-market-babies/) - WRDW-TV News 12 uncovered an alleged black market for babies dating back decades: Part 1:4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lX6rCcJVI Part 2:4 Part 3:4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAKM5fNQV8 Part 4:4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LDamdoJjN4 https://adoptionland.org/p/6471/manufactured-orphans/ For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here.
- [International Adoption: In Whose Best Interest?](https://adoptionland.org/4380/international-adoption-in-whose-best-interest/) - To get a copy of Outer Search Inner Journey visit here. To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here. For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org
- [Canada: Catholic nuns forced women to give up babies for adoption or told moms newborn  was dead](https://adoptionland.org/4384/canada-catholic-nuns-forced-women-to-give-up-babies-for-adoption-or-told-moms-newborn-was-dead/) - Published on Feb 3, 2014 For Origins Canada website, visit here. For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here.
- [Rethinking Foster Care](https://adoptionland.org/4346/rethinking-foster-care/) - Molly McGrath Tierney at TEDxBaltimore 2014 Molly McGrath Tierney was the Director for the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, managing the City's child welfare and public assistance programs. Over the past six years, she has led a massive reform effort to dramatically improve the impact of services to vulnerable citizens of Baltimore. Molly's work
- [Lid lifts on the anguish of China's stolen generation](https://adoptionland.org/4325/lid-lifts-on-the-anguish-of-chinas-stolen-generation/) - TIANXI, China: The man from family planning regularly prowled around the mountaintop village, looking for nappies on clotheslines and listening for the cry of a hungry newborn. One day in spring 2004, he presented himself at Yang Shuiying's doorstep and commanded: ''Bring out the baby.'' Yang wept and argued, but, alone with her four-month-old daughter,
- [Should adopted children have the right to contact their natural mother?](https://adoptionland.org/4290/should-adopted-children-have-the-right/) - HAVING BEEN BORN in a mother and baby home, I am among perhaps a few hundred members of the active adoption community. But there are also about 50,000 silent adoptees in Ireland today, mostly aged 45 and upwards. At present, all natural mothers are “protected” by the constitutional right to privacy, Many do not want
- [Equal Rights for All: It’s Finally Time for Adopted People, Too](https://adoptionland.org/4189/equal-rights-for-all-its-finally-time-for-adopted-people-too/) - As our country has focused enormous attention in recent days on the rights of one minority, gay men and lesbians, we continue (alas) to give short-shrift to the decades-long effort to achieve equality for millions of people in another segment of our population: Americans who were adopted into their families. Change is in the air,
- [Exposing Adoption Lies & Propaganda  #adoptiontrafficking](https://adoptionland.org/4176/exposing-adoption-lies-propaganda-adoptiontrafficking/) - How Much Are American Children Worth? Jennifer Lyn Wachowski exposes lies and propaganda of the multi-billion dollar adoption industry, the selling of newborns to the highest bidders. Amber and Jennifer discuss the intricacies of adoption law - it is in the best interest of adoption attorneys and law-makers to support adoption because selling the babies
- [A Mother’s Love: Creating Gracie’s Bill](https://adoptionland.org/4170/a-mothers-love-creating-gracies-bill/) - A mother’s love, loss and determination has greatly impacted social awareness and created organizations such as MADD, founded by Cindy Lightner, and the well-known Amber Alert system, which Donna Norris created. The power of another mother’s love also created the Make a Wish Foundation. All of these women, and others such as the parents in
- [Aussie do-gooders 'tearing families apart'](https://adoptionland.org/4128/aussie-do-gooders-tearing-families-apart/) - Phnom Penh: Gullible Australians volunteering in Cambodian orphanages are unwittingly tearing families apart, an aid organisation says. The number of orphanages in Cambodia has exploded to an estimated 600 in the past decade, despite a lack of conflict and social upheaval normally associated with such an increase. Aid groups believe the trend is driven by dodgy
- [A letter to my Korean Omma](https://adoptionland.org/3858/a-letter-to-my-korean-omma/) - Annyeonghaseyo! 안녕하세요! Omma, 엄마! My name is Meejin Richart. 제 이름은 미진 리샤에요. This name given to me by my adoptive parents but the name I use when I’m in Korea is Choi Mee Jin. 미진 리샤라는 이름은 제 양부모님이 저에게 지어주신 이름이에요. 하지만, 한국에서 지낼때의 제이름은 최미진이에요. I know I come from you. 제가 엄마에게서
- [The Forgotten Fathers](https://adoptionland.org/4063/the-forgotten-fathers/) - The trauma of forced adoptions for mothers is well documented but the impact on fathers is not. How do fathers fare when babies are adopted out? They can be the forgotten characters in the story. with Ellen Fanning on Radio abc For radio interview of Adoptionland contributor, Cameron Horn listen here. Australian fathers invited to
- [Outrage over child models used to 'sell' adoptee children from broken homes](https://adoptionland.org/4053/outrage-over-child-models-used-to-sell-adoptee-children-from-broken-homes/) - Children offered for adoption are being represented as photogenic child models with attractive personalities in a controversial internet advertising campaign run by a NSW government-funded charity. The marketing campaign by Barnardos has infuriated an adult adoptees support group which claims it is akin to an online sale of children and misrepresents the character and looks
- [My illegal adoption was kept secret for nearly FIVE decades](https://adoptionland.org/4043/my-illegal-adoption-was-kept-secret-for-nearly-five-decades-2/) - Theresa Tinggal reckons the way she was handed over to Kathleen and husband Jimmy – the man she called Dad – was a form of child trafficking For nearly five decades Theresa Tinggal felt like the odd one out in her ­family – but had no idea why, reveals the Sunday People. Then a remark
- [Recovering What Was Left Behind](https://adoptionland.org/3817/recovering-what-was-left-behind/) - This is the moment..... Published on Dec 11, 2012 Photographs and Video Footage Courtesy of Kira Donnell To share your story, write a letter to your original family or start a birth search this site is created for you. Register your story by visiting this page. For news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To
- [Long Lost Family U.S.](https://adoptionland.org/4010/long-lost-family-us/) - March 1st 2016, a U.S. version aired on TLC as a one-hour special hosted by Christopher Jacobs and Lisa Joyner. This version was sponsored by TLC and Ancestry.com and produced by Shed Media which also produces the US version of Who Do You Think You Are. LONG LOST FAMILY WEBSITE VISIT HERE: For news
- [A Journey of Discovery, Truth and Reconciliation](https://adoptionland.org/4002/a-journey-of-discovery-truth-and-reconciliation/) - Published on Mar 10, 2016 Cecelia Reekie shares her very personal journey of adoption, reunion, learning and understanding residential schools and reconciliation. Through her reunion with her Dad she learned he is a survivor of the Residential Schools. Cecelia reminds us that every child has a story and we need to take the time to
- [An Adoptee's Nightmare](https://adoptionland.org/3934/an-adoptees-nightmare/) - As an adoptee my records have been sealed. I have never been able to make contact with my biological family until now. Unfortunately, the results have been my worst nightmare. This is not a comprehensive examination of my entire experience as an adoptee, but rather an expression of what I’m going through right now. Adoptee
- [Crocodile Smiles and Con Tricks](https://adoptionland.org/3924/crocodile-smiles-and-con-tricks/) - Unscrupulous fraudsters persuade vulnerable families to hand over their children – who then disappear into a flourishing ‘orphanage industry’. Fiona Broom reports on efforts to stop the child-trafficking trade. In Nepal’s remote mountain villages, an insidious force has for two decades been destroying young lives and tearing families apart. The devastation visited on these villages is
- [Mothers forced to give up children for adoption deserve apology](https://adoptionland.org/3919/mothers-forced-to-give-up-children-for-adoption-deserve-apology/) - It took months to piece together last night's story about women who were forced to give up their children for adoption during the baby boomer years. I spoke to dozens of mothers who had their babies taken from them. Most are still too traumatised to consider sharing their stories publicly, and Debra Harris should be
- [Thoughts of Donor-conceived Children of Gay Parents in Their Own Words](https://adoptionland.org/5621/thoughts-of-donor-conceived-children-of-gay-parents-in-their-own-words/) - by Katy As stated, ad nauseum, here, there and everywhere my objection to institutionalizing gay marriage is grounded in protecting the rights of children. Human beings have a right to their mother and father and we are designed to long for a relationship with both of our biological parents. There is no denying same-sex attracted parents can be great
- [Adopted overseas as children, they're not U.S. citizens at all](https://adoptionland.org/3851/adopted-overseas-as-children-theyre-not-u-s-citizens-at-all/) - Alexis Stevens liked to describe herself as a model citizen. She was adopted from England by a U.S. military family who moved her to Texas. She raised a family, put herself through college and became a school teacher. Four years ago, Stevens and her husband, Wayne, decided to celebrate their wedding anniversary and Stevens' completion
- [California Man Says He Served as Sex Slave After Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/3830/california-man-says-he-served-as-sex-slave-after-adoption/) - SAN JOSE, Calif. — A man has filed a lawsuit against a California couple he says used him as a sex slave after adopting him from an orphanage in Russia at the age of 9. Denis Flynn, 23, said his father, Ralph Flynn, would abuse him more and more frequently, and his mother, Carolyn Flynn,
- [Los Gatos Man Sues Adoptive Parents Over Alleged Life as a 'Sex Slave'](https://adoptionland.org/3833/los-gatos-man-sues-adoptive-parents-over-alleged-life-as-a-sex-slave/) - A Los Gatos couple is facing criminal charges for years of alleged sexual abuse of their adoptive child. By Robert Handa A Los Gatos man claims he was forced into life as a child sex slave by his adoptive parents. Denis Flynn is now suing the couple for damages. The Los Gatos couple who adopted him
- [Russian senator warns of dangers of international adoption after fresh US scandal](https://adoptionland.org/3823/russian-senator-warns-of-dangers-of-international-adoption-after-fresh-us-scandal/) - The recent scandal in which a Russian-born man sued the US couple who had adopted him as a boy over “years of sexual servitude” is more proof that international adoption is dangerous, upper house MP Yelena Mizulina has said. “With regret, I have to state once again – with frightening persistence such incidents demonstrate the
- [Woman tried to hide child in carry-on bag on Air France flight](https://adoptionland.org/3819/woman-tried-to-hide-child-in-carry-on-bag-on-air-france-flight/) - French authorities say they’ve launched an investigation after a child was found hidden inside a carry-on bag of an Air France passenger. CNN reports a woman was arrested in Paris after allegedly trying to conceal the child in the bag, which she had brought on Air France Flight 1891 from Istanbul to Paris on Monday.
- [Illegal Adoption in Lebanon: Mechanisms & Consequences](https://adoptionland.org/3812/illegal-adoption-in-lebanon-mechanisms-consequences/) - Lebanon’s history of illegal adoption is a long one, as old as its wars. Illegal adoption is, of course, a worldwide phenomenon. Missionary work targeting “orphans” and children “of unknown parentage” began as a result of global wars, famines and epidemics that have plagued humankind throughout history. It should also be noted that the issue
- [Uganda tightens foreign adoption rules to thwart child trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/3801/uganda-tightens-foreign-adoption-rules-to-thwart-child-trafficking/) - May 14, 2015. REUTERS/JAMES AKENA KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Child rights campaigners in Uganda have welcomed a new law that restricts fast-track foreign adoptions in which children - often with living parents - can be whisked overseas in a matter of days. Lawmakers passed a bill this week that requires foreigners seeking to adopt
- [Uganda: New law makes it hard for foreigners to adopt kids](https://adoptionland.org/3798/uganda-new-law-makes-it-hard-for-foreigners-to-adopt-kids/) - AMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill that says only Ugandans can be legal guardians of orphaned or destitute children, in a move aimed at stemming the rising number of adoptions by foreigners. The bill eliminates a legal gap that allowed foreigners to apply for and get legal guardianship within days of arriving
- [Anti-adoption activists defy popular opinion](https://adoptionland.org/3795/anti-adoption-activists-defy-popular-opinion/) - `Scared and vulnerable' "I've never seen anyone more scared and vulnerable than a pregnant woman without resources," he said. The problem is, "if they ask for help, more than likely they are advised to give up their child."
- [Holt's Positive and Negative Adoption Language](https://adoptionland.org/3782/holts-positive-and-negative-adoption-language/) - Positive Negative Adoption triad Adoption triangle Biological parent Natural
- [Long Lost Family](https://adoptionland.org/3772/woman-discovers-her-co-worker-is-her-birth-mom/) - By Andrea Morabito March 3, 2016 | 5:15am Jenny Thomas has known she was adopted since the age of 4. With very little information known about her birth mother (besides that she was from Rochester, NY, where Thomas, 40, still lives), she would find herself peering into women’s faces, wondering if any could be her
- [Korean Adoptee Reunion](https://adoptionland.org/3769/korean-adoptee-reunion/) - 한국 가족과 회 세계한인입양인대회가 동창회 If you want to read more on other Korean adoptees experiences, The “Unknown” Culture Club can be found on Amazon. Follow us: @adoptiontraffic / Adoption Trafficking – FB For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org
- [Chinese Officials Seized and Sold Babies, Parents Say](https://adoptionland.org/3752/chinese-officials-seized-and-sold-babies-parents-say/) - LONGHUI COUNTY, China — Many parents and grandparents in this mountainous region of terraced rice and sweet potato fields have long known to grab their babies and find the nearest hiding place whenever family planning officials show up. Too many infants, they say, have been snatched by officials, never to be seen again. But Yuan
- [China’s Adoption Scandal Sends Chills Through Families in U.S.](https://adoptionland.org/3743/chinas-adoption-scandal-sends-chills-through-families-in-u-s/) - By JOHN LELAND IN almost any adoption, the new parents accept that their good fortune arises out of the hardship of the child’s first parents. The equation is usually tempered by the thought that the birth parents either are no longer alive or chose to give the child a better life than they could provide. On Aug.
- [Merchant law firm launches class-action lawsuit for '60s Scoop' adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/3735/merchant-law-firm-launches-class-action-lawsuit-for-60s-scoop-adoptees/) - Victim of '60s Scoop' shares his experience reuniting with Saskatchewan family The Merchant Law Group served the Federal Government the class-action lawsuit on January 30. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the government ran an Adopt Indian Métis program. That program saw thousands of aboriginal children taken from their homes and adopted into white families in
- [A Native Child's Story: Spirit of the Lakota](https://adoptionland.org/3725/a-native-childs-story/) - Lost Bird of Wounded Knee A Girl Called 'Lost Bird' Is Finally at Rest: History: Lakota infant survived Wounded Knee killing and was adopted by whites. Now she is buried among her people. WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — Nobody knows her birth name. Zintkala Nuni, the Lakota call her. Lost Bird. Today, she is lost no
- [The Adoption Industry - Collusion, Coercion and Confusion](https://adoptionland.org/3692/the-adoption-industry-collusion-coercion-and-confusion/) - SPECIAL TOPIC Night - "For Our Kids" - Deborah Maddison and Eugenea Couture, Canadian activists from British Columbia, will join Bill Murray to lead this evening's discussion about the Rights of Children and Families in North America. ~~ TONIGHT'S TOPIC: " The Adoption Industry - Collusion, Coercion and Confusion." Adoption is a multi-billion dollar industry that profits off of children and
- [The Worldview of International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/3604/the-worldview-of-international-adoption/) - Worldview producer Alexandra Salomon gives us a special look into the world of international adoption, and some of its origins. (Also, we talk to Vali Nasr about a settlement framework for Syria.) Radio interview about the history of international adoption starts in 14:56 of the program. (Photo: Associated Press/Gosia Wozniacka) Original link visit here. Many believe
- [Dark side of inter-racial adoption surfaces](https://adoptionland.org/3573/dark-side-of-inter-racial-adoption-surfaces/) - (Former) Washington State Senator Paull Shin, French digital economy minister Fleur Pellerin and French Senator Jean-Vincent Place. They all have something in common. All three are Korean adoptees who have become successes in their adopted countries. Behind the success stories of those people, however, are others who suffer emotional distress after being adopted by foreign
- [Adam Crapser's Story](https://adoptionland.org/3545/adam-crapsers-story/) - For Adam’s narrative on the adoption experience, see here: Amazon "If I could say anything to politicians, I would beg them--implore them--to please amend the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 so that those of us who were adopted as children before then but were not granted US citizenship--would finally be covered. Please do this for
- [Adam Crapser: Detained for deportation](https://adoptionland.org/3496/adam-crapser-detained-for-deportation/) - Adam Crapser, a Korean American adoptee who was placed in deportation proceedings at the beginning of 2015, was placed in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma Washington by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on February 8, 2016. READ Latest News here - Adam Crapser to be Deported Adam was adopted from a Korean orphanage by U.S.
- [Bali orphanages: How tourist cash funds a racket](https://adoptionland.org/3479/bali-orphanages-how-tourist-cash-funds-a-racket/) - As tourism has boomed in Bali, it has had a strange side-effect, doubling the number of orphanages on the island in 20 years. Tourists' donations keep the orphanages going - but some are effectively rackets, exploiting children and holidaymakers alike. I met Pam and Samantha, an Australian mother and daughter who had traveled all the
- [](https://adoptionland.org/3462/3462/) - Feb 20, 2013 - Uploaded by RTQuestionMore Published on Feb 20, 2013 Roelie Post, from the Foundation Against Child Trafficking, says the whole adoption system in the US is flawed and lacks supervision.
- [Indian children trafficked to United States is a reality, says U.S. diplomat](https://adoptionland.org/3458/indian-children-trafficked-to-united-states-is-a-reality-says-u-s-diplomat/) - Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:19 GMT Author: Nita Bhalla SILIGURI, India, Feb 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cases of Indian children being smuggled to the United States are a reality, a U.S. diplomat said on Friday, reacting to a media report that police had busted an international child trafficking racket
- [Saving Our Sisters from Domestic Adoption Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/3455/saving-our-sisters-from-domestic-adoption-trafficking/) - Amber Geislinger speaks with Lynn Johansenn, adoption reform activist and founder of Saving Our Sisters. Saving Our Sisters is a non-profit grassroots charity saving mommies and babies from domestic adoption trafficking. Lynn is a hero, an inspiration to activists and survivors of adoption trafficking. She tells her personal story as a natural/biological mother who fell
- [The International Adoptions Lobby: an insider’s perspective](https://adoptionland.org/3433/the-international-adoptions-lobby-an-insiders-perspective/) - A review by Rupert Wolfe-Murray Romania – for export only, the untold story of the Romanian ‘orphans’ by Roelie Post There are several unusual things about Roelie Post and her important new book on international adoptions. An employee of the European Commission, between 1999 and 2005 Post handled one of its most controversial dossiers: Romania’s
- [Objections to Closed Adoption; Ethical, Moral, Legal and Practical.](https://adoptionland.org/3424/objections-to-closed-adoption/) - Objections to closed adoption; ethical, moral, legal and practical (Note: This piece was originally written in July 2013 and sent to a Citizens Convention examining the Irish Constitution and making recommendations for changes and additions. Many of the ethical and moral objections to closed adoption are common throughout the world and a few are legal
- [Reunited after 26 years: Forced Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/3392/reunited-after-26-years-forced-adoption/) - Aniella Bonnichsen, author of the book: " My child - where are you?", Which is the first book in Denmark , who unveils what the biological mother experienced when she must give up the child she has brought to the world. Bashy's Corner: Bashy Quraishy is a Civil Rights Activist and focuses on minority people's
- [Owner of Utah County adoption agency arrested](https://adoptionland.org/3301/owner-of-utah-county-adoption-agency-arrested/) - (KUTV) James Charles Webb, owner of the Adoption Center of Center, or ACC, in American Fork, was arrested on Friday, charged with taking $100,400 in payments from four families who expected he would help them adopt babies. The families never adopted the babies but Webb kept the money, according to court documents. Webb was also
- [Not What It Seems: Going Deeper into Ugandan Orphanages](https://adoptionland.org/3297/uganda-orphanages/) - Orphanages are big businesses. Follow us: @adoptiontraffic / Adoptionland.org – FB https://adoptionland.org/p/2276/your-baby-is-dead-mothers-say-their-supposedly-stillborn-babies-were-stolen-from-them/ For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org
- [Heartbreaking moment Chinese adoptive father hugs his daughter as he hands her back to her biological parents after discovering she had been kidnapped from them six years ago](https://adoptionland.org/3286/heartbreaking-moment-chinese-adoptive-father-hugs-his-daughter-as-he-hands-her-back-to-her-biological-parents-after-discovering-she-had-been-kidnapped-from-them-six-years-ago/) - After adopting a young girl years ago, a couple from north-west China's Urumqi city had to do the unimaginable when they discovered she was a child trafficking victim. They gave their adopted daughter back to her biological parents on February 2 after finding out they had been searching for her for a number of years,
- [When Alisha was returned to us, it was as if gold had been laid at our feet.](https://adoptionland.org/3218/when-alisha-was-returned-to-us-it-was-as-if-gold-had-been-laid-at-our-feet/) - 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
- [Houston Attorney Calls CPS an Adoption Mill More Interested in Money than Kids](https://adoptionland.org/3208/houston-attorney-calls-cps-an-adoption-mill-more-interested-in-money-than-kids/) - January 31, 2016 by Randy Wallace MyFoxHouston.com Excerpts: When it comes to protecting children the state agency in charge of that has financial incentives to take kids away from their parents. “For every child that’s taken into custody for at least 6 months is covering 25 peoples’ paychecks,” says veteran family law attorney Julie Ketterman. Judges,
- [Orphanage Trafficking and Orphanage Voluntourism](https://adoptionland.org/3201/orphanage-trafficking-and-orphanage-voluntourism/) - Frequently Asked Questions Why are so many children placed in orphanages in countries like Nepal? The initial rise in orphanages in developing countries cannot be attributed to the same factors. Context specific history, poverty, natural disasters, epidemics (such as AIDS) and conflicts are all things connected to the global rise in orphanages. However, in most
- [In Hunan, Family Planning Turns to Plunder](https://adoptionland.org/2816/in-hunan-family-planning-turns-to-plunder/) - Families in a poor mountainous region have had children seized, and apparently sold, in the name of China's one-child policy By Shangguan Jiaoming, October 2011 (Shaoyang) – On a long journey in search of his lost child, Yang Libing carries a single photograph. It's a faded snapshot of his daughter Yang Ling, who this year
- [Legal Kidnapping](https://adoptionland.org/3162/legal-kidnapping/) - Chris Reynolds is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) -A father is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. Chris Reynolds hasn’t seen his 3-year-old daughter, Brooke, in more than a year. He
- [Grandmothers protest worst ever stealing of Australian Aboriginal children](https://adoptionland.org/3119/grandmothers-protest-worst-ever-stealing-of-australian-aboriginal-children/) - Aboriginal grandmothers(link is external) have protested to Australian politicians about the increasing removal of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed in homes or with foster families, many of them non-Indigenous. Grandmothers were among about 100 Indigenous protesters who marched from the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra to parliament house on Friday, 13 February. In 2008,
- [Mom: "I screamed and cried and watched them take my child away"](https://adoptionland.org/3074/mom-i-screamed-and-cried-and-watched-them-take-my-child-away/) - MOBILE, AL (WALA) - Kimberly Rossler says the most traumatizing experience of her life happened less than a month after she delivered her baby. Rossler gave birth to James Elliot Rossler in May, but three weeks later, she said Sheriff's deputies were knocking on her door to take the baby from her. "They let me finish breastfeeding
- [China's Hidden Children](https://adoptionland.org/3037/chinas-hidden-children/) - Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2016 Will Publish March 2016 In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s
- [Goverment Denies Jolie Pitt Adoption Rumour](https://adoptionland.org/3020/goverment-denies-jolie-pitt-adoption-rumour/) - The Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday denied there was any truth to the suggestion that Angelina Jolie Pitt was in the process of adopting a second child from Cambodia. The rumour, which stemmed from a story published by US gossip website Radar on Monday, claimed Jolie Pitt had pledged to adopt a baby called “Shoun
- [Coerced adoption: Salvation Army launches review of maternity homes that housed unwed mothers](https://adoptionland.org/3015/coerced-adoption-salvation-army-launches-review-of-maternity-homes-that-housed-unwed-mothers/) - The Salvation Army says it is conducting an internal review into its historic maternity homes, just as a retired Calgary judge — who was once a high-ranking child welfare worker in the city — has come forward and corroborated some of the claims mothers have recently made about coercive adoption practices directed at unmarried mothers
- [ADOPTION ATTORNEYS DEFEATED IN ATTEMPT TO REVOKE ICWA](https://adoptionland.org/3001/adoption-attorneys-defeated-in-attempt-to-revoke-icwa/) - Native American families experienced a major legal victory this week, as a federal court judge threw out a case that attempted to argue ICWA violated the civil rights of Indian parents. United States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee dismissed the lawsuit, initially filed by the National Council For Adoption Attorneys, which sought to decimate the
- [Adoption Relinquishment](https://adoptionland.org/2965/adoption-relinquishment/) - Pregnant and Considering Adoption? What The Adoption Agencies Will Not Tell You About Adoption Relinquishment If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and are considering becoming a birthmother and making an adoption plan there are some things you should know about first- as in BEFORE you contact an adoption agency! Adoption relinquishment is a permanent
- [Things I Wish I Knew Before Adoption Entered my Life](https://adoptionland.org/2960/things-i-wish-i-knew-before-adoption-entered-my-life/) - This Grown in My Heart Adoption Carnival Topic was supposed to be “10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was Touched By Adoption”, but I can’t use the feel good wording of “touched”. I was not touched by adoption, it’s more like torched, trampled, traumatized, terrorized, tortured and torn apart by adoption. Overall, I
- [Thinking of Placing Your Baby for Adoption? Think very hard.](https://adoptionland.org/2954/thinking-of-placing-your-baby-for-adoption-think-very-hard/) - Should you give your baby up for adoption? YOU WANT THE BEST FOR YOUR BABY AND YOU’VE HEARD THAT PLACING YOUR BABY FOR ADOPTION WITH AN OLDER, WEALTHIER COUPLE IS BEST. The truth is according to child welfare experts that in most cases staying with you, his mother, is the best for your child. Your
- [Born Scared: When Anxiety was Created in the Womb, at Birth, or in Prior Lifetimes, and How Finding the Cause Leads to the Cure](https://adoptionland.org/2947/born-scared-when-anxiety-was-created-in-the-womb-at-birth-or-in-prior-lifetimes-and-how-finding-the-cause-leads-to-the-cure/) - For those who feel as if they came into this world afraid, or whose child is fearful for no discernible reason and ask, "Why do I have this? Why is it happening to me or my child?" Born Scared provides answers. Through the use of fascinating case stories, hypnotherapist, Julia Ingram, demonstrates that when clients
- [But I adopted my child at birth. What do you mean trauma?](https://adoptionland.org/2944/but-i-adopted-my-child-at-birth-what-do-you-mean-trauma/) - BY: ALEX STAVROS, President and CEO, Calo Family of Programs It is not uncommon for adoptive parents to come to us feeling out of options for their difficult child and overwhelmed about what could have created all of these DSM diagnoses and intense feelings and behaviors. Especially if the child was adopted at or near
- [We are approaching the one year anniversary of Hyunsu's brutal death.](https://adoptionland.org/2938/we-are-approaching-the-one-year-anniversary-of-hyunsus-brutal-death/) - As we welcome the New Year and continue seeking justice for our baby brother Hyunsu, we also are approaching the one year anniversary of his brutal death. I have created this fundraiser page to purchase either a headstone for Hyunsu's gravesite here in the US, or a memorial plaque to be placed in his memory in Korea, depending
- [Couple 'forced to give triplets up for adoption as teenagers' try to find sons 43 years on](https://adoptionland.org/2927/couple-forced-to-give-triplets-up-for-adoption-as-teenagers-try-to-find-sons-43-years-on/) - A couple has launched a heartfelt appeal on social media in a bid to try and find the triplet sons they were forced to give up for adoption 43-years-ago. Cynthia and Brian Bush gave up their three sons in 1972 after Cynthia fell pregnant as a teenager, but after going on to get married and
- [Church says sorry over forced adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/2895/church-says-sorry-over-forced-adoptions/) - 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
- [Searching for Missing Pieces of a Painful Past](https://adoptionland.org/2878/searching-for-missing-pieces-of-a-painful-past/) - A millionaire's son was adopted in the U.S., unknown to his mother. He wants answers. November 2004 | Nora Zamichow Mee Yeon Lee clutched her 4-year-old son's pudgy hand as she led the boy into the lobby of his father's office building. In her other hand, she held a small bag with his clothes. Two men
- ["We gave him up to save his life"](https://adoptionland.org/2836/we-gave-him-up-to-save-his-life/) - For five increasingly horrific years, the adoption agencies insisted that Chad Ostrowski's memory of a father in Korea was fantasy. When Anne Marie and John finally learned the truth about their beloved boy, they made the ultimate sacrifice. By Peg Tyre On August 11, 1989, a pale, anxious 8-year-old boy wearing a thin cotton T-shirt
- [Guatemala arrests US fugitive in illegal adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/2834/guatemala-arrests-us-fugitive-in-illegal-adoptions/) - GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities have arrested an American accused of human trafficking and participating in illegal adoptions. Prosecutors say Nancy Susan Bailey was apprehended in El Salvador and turned over to Guatemalan authorities via Interpol at the border between the two Central American countries. The arrest warrant for Bailey was issued in 2008
- [Guatemalan Kidnapping / American Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/2828/guatemalan-kidnapping-american-adoption/) - Karen Abigail Monahan is ten years old and lives with her mom and dad, Jennifer and Timothy Monahan, in Liberty, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. She is likely in the fifth grade and undoubtedly knows that she was adopted from Guatemala. Someday soon, this little girl will sit at a computer and type her
- [Rot in Uganda's adoption system](https://adoptionland.org/2822/rot-in-ugandas-adoption-system/) - The Children’s Act Amendment Bill 2015 comes up for debate in Parliament today (Thursday). Our undercover reporter attended an intriguing workshop of stakeholders on the controversial legislation and now writes . . . Government officials, social workers and security personnel fear for their safety and are frustrated with dealing with what they called ‘the mafia’
- [Fraud and deceit at the heart of Uganda adoptions to United States](https://adoptionland.org/2813/fraud-and-deceit-at-the-heart-of-uganda-adoptions-to-united-states/) - LONDON/KAMPALA, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ugandan families have been bribed, tricked or coerced into giving up their children to U.S. citizens and other foreigners for adoption, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found. Leaked documents, court data and a series of exclusive interviews with officials, whistleblowers, victims and prospective adoptive parents has revealed: - a
- [HSE knew of  “quasi-illegal deportation and adoption” of children to the USA, Britain, and Australia.](https://adoptionland.org/2788/hse-knew-of-quasi-illegal-deportation-and-adoption-of-children-to-the-usa-britain-and-australia/) - The revelation is contained in a business plan prepared by principal social worker in the South Lee region, Pat O’Dwyer, in 2011 in preparation for the HSE’s takeover of about 15,500 adoption files from the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Order which ran the Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey, and Castlepollard Mother
- [A Letter From A REAL Ethiopian Mother](https://adoptionland.org/2767/a-letter-from-a-real-ethiopian-mother/) - Ethiopia, Stop Adoption Trafficking! Urgent and Extremely Important, Please Read and Listen! All Ethiopians and all who care for the welfare, protection, safety and growth of children in their own community, with their own identity, culture, heredity and nationality, please be the voice for the voiceless Ethiopian children who have become victims of child trafficking
- ['Child trafficking with help of State'](https://adoptionland.org/2628/child-trafficking-with-help-of-state/) - Victim of illegal adoption affair wants to go to court By Esther Wemmers Amsterdam – A victim of the major illegal adoption affair of the eighties wants to sue the Dutch State for co-responsibility of child trafficking and allowing couples to change the identity of their illegally adopted children. Childless Dutch couples avoided the long
- [Taken and never returned: When adoption profits the middleman](https://adoptionland.org/2607/taken-and-never-returned-when-adoption-profits-the-middleman/) - Many children in Uganda are taken to Europe and the United States of America for adoption every year by guardians who pay local law firms and agencies between four to nine million shillings. The law firms and agencies have consequently turned adoption into a profitable business. Many of the Ugandan parents do not understand everything in
- [Adoption disruptions a secretive, misunderstood trend](https://adoptionland.org/2494/adoption-disruptions-a-secretive-misunderstood-trend/) - It's a dark and secretive adoption trend that parents are afraid to admit to, agencies don't like to talk about, but experts say is happening more than we know: adoption disruptions, in which desperate couples put their adopted children up for adoption … again. "I think adoption disruptions are far more prevalent than the few cases reported," says Karen Moline, an adoption
- [Zoe's Ark: Charity or child trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/2466/zoes-ark-charity-or-child-trafficking/) - Zoe's Ark Zoe's Ark was a French NGO dedicated to helping orphaned children affected by armed conflict or natural disaster and launched in response to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. By 2007 the focus shifted to Darfur. In October 2007, Chadian authorities nabbed six Zoe's Ark workers for attempting to evacuate 103 children to France. The
- [International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/2412/international-adoption/) - "We are tired of you targeting our children and abandon the families!" says little brown bear. Adopted People Parents of Loss Adoptive Parents or Applicants
- [JCICS Conference call: Adoptions gone TOXIC](https://adoptionland.org/2339/jcics-conference-call-adoptions-gone-toxic/) - Presenting themselves as an advocacy group for children, the Joint Council on International Children's Services (JCICS) is nothing less than the voice of the adoption industry. In view of transparency, Against Child Trafficking hereby make this audio, as well as the full transcript, public: A letter from a REAL Ethiopian Mother: Ethiopia, Stop Adoption Trafficking!
- [Out of 30 adopted Ethiopians, 9 of them are homeless in Seattle](https://adoptionland.org/2327/out-of-30-adopted-ethiopians-9-of-them-are-homeless-in-seattle/) - Adopted from Ethiopia, Hana found dead in her back yard, bruises on her body where she was beaten and her adoptive parents starved her to death. Adoption Advocates International (AAI) based in Seattle is closed now. Many of the adoptions from AAI the Ethiopian children are homeless. Unfortunately when their is no supervision or regulations
- [Serbia: Missing Babies](https://adoptionland.org/2288/serbia-missing-babies/) - Instances of newborns disappearing in Serbian hospitals have been reported for decades. But only in recent times has the government come under pressure to take action. Hundreds of parents say they were told by doctors that their babies died shortly after birth. But they were never allowed to see the body. An association representing the
- [I Was Stolen From My Parents](https://adoptionland.org/2113/i-was-stolen-from-my-parents/) - J'ai été vole à mes parents (which in French means "I was stolen from my parents") is a true story of Céline Giraud, a French woman of Peruvian origins, written by herself with the collaboration of a Émilie Trevert, a French journalist. (1) Céline Giraud was adopted from Peru by French parents at the age
- [Indian Adoption Era: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)](https://adoptionland.org/2170/indian-adoption-era-indian-child-welfare-act-icwa/) - This is a work sample trailer of the research and development footage for Blood Memory, a feature-length documentary film exploring the Indian Adoption Era and the controversial role of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). For full website visit here. Adoptionland.org provide current (and past) issues in adoption. We offer a deeper and wider description
- [Babies for Sale; In Peru, It's a Simple Supply and Demand Situation](https://adoptionland.org/2052/babies-for-sale-in-peru-supply-and-demand-situation/) - December 18, 1990 | ALEX EMERY | ASSOCIATED PRESS LIMA, Peru — Phillip Thomas Shaffer, 4 months old, wriggled in his new mother's arms, an appealing grin on his face. He is unaware of the human drama unfolding around him as his mother, Terry, battles court officials and the bureaucracy to adopt him. Foreigners, most of them from
- [Tinan, Testimony of an Uprooted Child](https://adoptionland.org/1835/tinan-testimony-of-an-uprooted-child/) - "In 2002, I finally found my family. I learned the exact circumstances of my adoption: I had been kidnapped with forty children from an institution that is called a "nursery" here, where poor families can leave their children, for the time to get out of a distress situation, and take them back." Part 1: Interview with
- [Father Begins Legal Fight To Get Infant Back From Adoptive Parents](https://adoptionland.org/1958/father-begins-legal-fight-to-get-infant-back-from-adoptive-parents/) - LOGAN — Utah's controversial laws regarding a father's rights in adoption procedures are in the spotlight again. On Friday, a 20-year-old man who claims he just lost his newborn daughter to an unwanted adoption began the legal fight to get her back.The attorney hired by Colby Nielsen called a press conference Friday afternoon to make
- [Children in Nepal are Easy Victims](https://adoptionland.org/1825/children-in-nepal-are-easy-victims/) - Chaos after the earthquake increases the risk that children disappearing and being abused by criminal gangs. Another powerful earthquake struck today (13, May 2015) Nepal and led many to run out into the street in panic. But the chaos that reigns in the country after two major earthquakes in less than a month - and
- [Babies for Export - Guatemala](https://adoptionland.org/1798/babies-for-export-guatemala/) - Most babies go to the USA where demand is high. "It is difficult," says one mother, "After she had gone I didn’t eat for days." Such is the demand that babies are even being kidnapped. Changing hands for $3000 on the black market. To prevent the illegal adoption of kidnapped babies compulsory blood tests have
- [The Baby Business - Guatemala](https://adoptionland.org/1795/the-baby-business-guatemala/) - November 2000. Martin Adler goes undercover to report on the profit-driven adoption business in Guatemala. He reveals how children are not being sold to would-be parents from overseas; they are actually being sold to meet demand. 99% of Guatemala's adoptions are organized by private sector agencies and lawyers, who use the weak adoption laws, and the
- [THE PERVERSE EFFECTS OF THE HAGUE ADOPTION CONVENTION](https://adoptionland.org/1802/the-perverse-effects-of-the-hague-adoption-convention-2/) - This article describes the effects that the Hague Adoption Convention had on adoptions from Romania. The aim of the Hague Convention was to guarantee that intercountry adoption would take place in the interest of the child, with respect for his/her fundamental rights, and to prevent the abduction, sale of or trafficking in children. Romania was
- [Many Adoptions Based on False Information](https://adoptionland.org/1793/many-adoptions-based-on-false-information/) - Since a few years ago came to light that adopted children from Ethiopia were 'harvested' and conned from their parents, caused a stir. But adoptions from numerous other countries saves on false papers, lies and deceit. Now a new law on the way to provide secure adoptions - maybe. The affluent South Korea is considered
- [Baby Trafficking Highlighted by Pregnant Teen's Slaying](https://adoptionland.org/1752/baby-trafficking-highlighted-by-pregnant-teens-slaying/) - A shocked nation remembers 1990s scandal about corrupt adoption procedures and wonders how much is still going on. March 12, 2006 | Rick Vecchio | Associated Press LIMA, Peru — When the body of Claudina Herrera was discovered almost five months ago by the side of a highway, curled in the fetal position in a
- [Catholic Charities and Holt](https://adoptionland.org/1589/holt-international/) - Three year old Madoc (aka Hyunsu) was adopted from South Korea under the new laws by Brian and Jennifer O'Callaghan in October 2013. He had a diagnosis of hydrocephalus. He died less than 4 months after his arrival in his adoptive home with a skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, eye hemorrhaging, trauma to his
- [Illegal adoptions pose complications in searches for birth parents](https://adoptionland.org/1568/illegal-adoptions-pose-complications-in-searches-for-birth-parents/) - Paula Douglas's birth certificate was forged and she cannot trace her birth mother. Paula Douglas has known she was adopted from as early as she can remember. Her Irish mother Lil Holmes told her when she was four. Yet, she remained puzzled. According to her birth certificate, her adoptive parents, Ronn and Lil Holmes,
- [Agonizing, Lonely Search for Missing Kids in China](https://adoptionland.org/1534/agonizing-lonely-search-for-missing-kids-in-china/) - BEIJING — In the grainy video, Zhang Xiuhong can see her daughter ride her bike down a country road on her way to school one spring afternoon six years ago. In the next shot, Yao Li rides down a driveway a few moments after her classmates walk by. Then, the pictures stop: The 15-year-old disappeared
- [A onetime division chief for the National Security Agency is expected to plead guilty to child abuse resulting in death of his 3 y.o. Korean adopted son](https://adoptionland.org/1523/a-onetime-division-chief-for-the-national-security-agency-is-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-child-abuse-resulting-in-death-of-his-3-y-o-korean-adopted-son/) - A onetime division chief for the National Security Agency is expected to plead guilty this month to child abuse resulting in death, according to records filed in Montgomery County Circuit Court. Brian O’Callaghan, 38, of Damascus was arrested last year in connection with the death of his 3-year-old son, Madoc. At that time, authorities said
- [Daddy and I](https://adoptionland.org/1436/photographer-documents-american-fathers-who-adopt-daughters-in-china/) - Photographer Documents American Fathers Who Adopt Daughters in China Ou’s statement on her photo series reads: “By photographing adopted Chinese girls and their Western fathers in America, I try to capture the affection between a female child and an adult male. What is the nature of this complex relationship, especially when different ethnic and cultural
- [Incredible Adoption Reunion!](https://adoptionland.org/1498/incredible-adoption-reunion/) - South Korea/USA: Deaf father who was tricked into signing adoption papers for his daughter finally reunites with her after 30 years of longing and searching.
- [The Dark Side of Tourism](https://adoptionland.org/1483/the-dark-side-of-tourism/) - by Wanwisa Ngamsangchaikit YANGON, 28 October 2015: Tourism operators must be key players in introducing a comprehensive action plan to protect Myanmar children from abuse by foreign tourists. Myanmar Times quoted Nature Dream travel and tours company managing director, Daw Sabei Aung, saying the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism should draw up an action plan
- [Update on the adoption debate in Denmark following the revelation of “Child Harvesters” in Ethiopia.](https://adoptionland.org/1479/update-on-the-adoption-debate-in-denmark-following-the-revelation-of-child-harvesters-in-ethiopia/) - By Anders Riel Müller / 송연준 The Danish Social Appeals Board withdrew the license of Danish adoption agency DanAdopt to work with the Ethiopian orphanage Enat Alem on February 27, 2013. The decision was made because “fundamental ethical principles” were breached at the orphanage. Following further investigations by the Social Appeals Board, DanAdopt had its license
- [Please help me find my long-lost brother, pleads Buryat woman](https://adoptionland.org/1471/please-help-me-find-my-long-lost-brother-pleads-buryat-woman/) - Separated for 10 years after being sent to an orphanage and possibly adopted overseas, Sofia is desperate for information about younger sibling Yuri. A Siberian woman has made a heart-felt plea for information about the brother she has not seen for a decade after he was sent to an orphanage and possibly adopted overseas. Sofia
- [Spanish couple accused of murdering adopted Chinese daughter reiterate innocence](https://adoptionland.org/1433/spanish-couple-accused-of-murdering-adopted-chinese-daughter-reiterate-innocence/) - Madrid (AFP) - A Spanish couple accused of drugging and suffocating their 12-year-old adopted Chinese daughter reiterated their innocence on Friday on the last day of their trial, in a case that has drawn the attention of Beijing. Rosario Porto, a former lawyer, and her ex-husband, journalist Alfonso Basterra, are accused of murdering Asunta Yong
- [Britain’s child migrants: ‘I was told I was going on a picnic’](https://adoptionland.org/1428/britains-child-migrants-i-was-told-i-was-going-on-a-picnic/) - Up until 1970, the UK regularly shipped thousands of orphans and illegitimate children abroad to a life of virtual slave labour and, often, abuse. Giulia Rhodes meets two victims of a policy that robbed them of a childhood and a family Sunday evenings were the highlight of the week when Tony Costa was a child.
- [The Parallels between International Adoption and  Slavery](https://adoptionland.org/1421/the-parallels-between-international-adoption-and-slavery/) - By Peter F. Dodds “There is no greater sorrow on Earth than the loss of one’s native land.” International adoption is a type of adoption in which parents adopt a child who is a national of a different country. Since 1990, close to a quarter million foreign children have been brought to the United
- [Father Rebuilds Life With Daughter After Losing Her in a Wrongful Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/1418/father-rebuilds-life-with-daughter-after-losing-her-in-a-wrongful-adoption/) - Now together, father, daughter, and a support group of family and friends are all building a bright future for a beautiful and bubbly little girl. Being an expectant father for the first time gives you butterflies of nerves but loads of excitement. Thoughts of a little bundle of joy about to enter your life gives
- [The Dark Secret Behind Nepal's Orphan Industry](https://adoptionland.org/1403/the-dark-secret-behind-nepals-orphan-industry/) - As Western families scramble to adopt, Nepalese orphanages have created a dark human industry, selling them abroad.
- [Nepal - Children for Sale](https://adoptionland.org/1396/nepal-children-for-sale/) - For every inter-country adoption the orphanage earns $5,000.00 and the government receives $3,000. One third of it's population makes $1.25 per day. Children are easy to obtain and the orphanages falsify papers and present the children as orphans, meanwhile the parents believe their children are in a children's home getting an education. Unknowingly the children
- [Protecting Kenyan Children from Inter-country Adoption by Foreigners.](https://adoptionland.org/1384/the-cabinet-has-approved-an-indefinite-moratorium-on-inter-country-adoption-of-kenyan-children-by-foreigners/) - The Cabinet has approved “an indefinite moratorium on inter-country adoption of Kenyan children by foreigners. The decision was informed by Kenya’s current ranking by the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, United Nations Office on drugs and crime, citing Kenya as a source, transit and destination country in human trafficking. The move is a
- [Adoption or Trafficking? Fears grow for Uganda's 'orphans'](https://adoptionland.org/1373/adoption-or-trafficking-fears-grow-for-ugandas-orphans/) - By Amy Fallon Mpigi (Uganda) (AFP) - When Agatha Namusisi, 64, let her grandson leave Uganda for medical treatment abroad, she assumed he would return, but more than a year later she says he has disappeared. "They are nowhere to be seen," Namusisi said of the seven-year-old boy and his Ugandan carer who travelled together
- [Kenya, another adoption scandal. The cost of Impunity.](https://adoptionland.org/1355/kenya-another-adoption-scandal-the-cost-of-impunity/) - There is new adoption scandal. Kenya this time. It seems to never stop as the Western adoption agencies can operate with impunity. This also involves the newly created Danish Agency DIA, which is the agency created by the Danish government, out of a merger of Danadopt and AC Denmark. Why? Because of the Ethiopian adoption
- [Child Abuse in the name of Voluntourism](https://adoptionland.org/1301/child-abuse-in-the-name-of-voluntourism/) - Ghana’s undercover reporters expose a local ‘mommy’ who starved orphans whilst making them clap and sing for ‘voluntourists’ “Sing! You must sing when there are visitors. You know that they bring donations but you just sit there looking reluctant. If you don’t sing loudly, and clap, I’ll whip you later, I promise!” The ‘mommy’ of Bawjiase
- [The Dominican children given up to Quebec's 'adoption machine’](https://adoptionland.org/1340/the-dominican-children-given-up-to-quebecs-adoption-machine/) - HATO MAYOR DEL REY, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC—Miguel and Rosa Ramirez’s shack is located at the end of an isolated road in the interior of the Dominican Republic. It is far away from the scenes found on postcards, in the middle of nowhere. A piece of plywood is nailed to the narrow facade of the shack. Miguel
- [Your child is missing. Would you want their adoption to be easier?](https://adoptionland.org/1312/your-child-is-missing-would-you-want-their-adoption-to-be-easier-3/) - Support for inter-country adoption appears to have taken on a religious fervour. But in a world where families are targeted by recruiters and children are bought and stolen, reunification and in-country options must be considered first. Patricia Fronek writes. Imagine for one moment your child went missing. Surely you would expect no stone to be
- [Foreign adoptions 'make children commodities', NGO challenges definition of human trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/1304/foreign-adoptions-make-children-commodities-ngo-challenges-definition-of-human-trafficking/) - Last year German based adoption-activist Arun Dohle was handed a file of a young Australian woman who wanted to find her birth family in India. Years of searching had proved fruitless up until then. Mr Dohle sent the brief to his Indian colleague Anjali Pawar. With scant details, just the name of the village and
- [Adoptee Sold by Doctor 50 Years Ago Reunites With Family](https://adoptionland.org/1293/adoptee-sold-by-doctor-50-years-ago-reunites-with-family/) - Kriste Hughes has wondered about her birth parents since she was a teenager. But it was years later that she learned her adoption was far from typical -- a doctor in Georgia essentially sold her to her adoptive parents. For Hughes, who is now 51, finding a sibling or even a relative, "would make me
- [Court orders adopted Kenyan children taken away from foreign couples](https://adoptionland.org/1215/court-orders-adopted-kenyan-children-taken-away-from-foreign-couples/) - The High Court has stopped two Swedish couples and a Danish couple from taking three Kenyan children out of the country. This was after it was discovered that the minors were not abandoned orphans but had families. Consequently, the court ordered the adoption proceedings stopped until an application filed by their birth families determined. Issuing
- [How do you know if you adopted a real orphan or a kidnapped child?](https://adoptionland.org/1195/how-do-you-know-if-you-adopted-a-real-orphan-or-a-kidnapped-child/) - 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
- [Adopted girl wins right to return to biological family after abuse](https://adoptionland.org/1185/adopted-girl-wins-right-to-return-to-biological-family-after-abuse/) - ‘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
- [An executive order to restore original birth certificates to adult adoptees by enacting the Adoptees Restoration Act](https://adoptionland.org/1174/an-executive-order-to-restore-original-birth-certificates-to-adult-adoptees-by-enacting-the-adoptees-restoration-act/) - 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
- [Chennai couple’s last-ditch effort to meet kidnapped daughter adopted in Australia 14 years ago](https://adoptionland.org/1166/chennai-couples-last-ditch-effort-to-meet-kidnapped-daughter-adopted-in-australia-14-years-ago/) - 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
- [Angelina Jolie’s Daughter’s Biological Family Wants Her Back](https://adoptionland.org/1128/angelina-jolies-daughters-biological-family-wants-her-back/) - Zahara Jolie-Pitt, the adorable tot that Angelina Jolie rescued from an Ethiopian orphanage more than two years ago is now the center of an adoption controversy. According to new reports, members of Zahara’s biological family recently came forward in an effort to reclaim the girl. Paperwork filed in Africa reveals that Zahara’s biological grandmother claims the orphanage
- [Scotland could face a torrent of human rights cases over its forced adoption policy between the 1940s and 80s](https://adoptionland.org/1092/scotland-could-face-a-torrent-of-human-rights-cases-over-its-forced-adoption-policy-between-the-1940s-and-80s/) - INTERNATIONAL expert Professor Miriam Stevenson says thousands of Scottish mums could take legal action under European laws. AN international expert yesterday warned that Scotland could face a torrent of human rights cases over its forced adoption legacy. Professor Miriam Stevenson says thousands of Scottish mums could take legal action under European laws. The respected Sheffield-born
- [Americans adopted out of Ireland will be able to find out their birth parents](https://adoptionland.org/1086/americans-adopted-out-of-ireland-will-be-able-to-find-out-their-birth-parents/) - New legislation being drawn up by the Irish Government will see as many as 50,000 adopted people gain the right to their birth certificate. The Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill is the first of its kind and will be discussed at this week’s cabinet meeting. It is expected to operate both retrospectively and for all
- [The cognitive dissonance between child rescue and child protection](https://adoptionland.org/1082/the-cognitive-dissonance-between-child-rescue-and-child-protection/) - ‘Saving orphans’ has become an industry that irrevocably harms children and undermines the development of child welfare systems. We must replace the drive to rescue with the desire to protect. On a recent flight from Amsterdam to Nairobi, I was wedged into a seat next to a chatty young man. He told me he worked
- [DNA helps reunite hundreds of missing children with their families](https://adoptionland.org/1059/dna-helps-reunite-hundreds-of-missing-children-with-their-families/) - Missing and stolen children can be difficult to identify—many have forgotten their families and even their own identity. Geneticist Jose Lorente is hoping to change that with a worldwide DNA testing program that has already matched 800 children with their families. The Science Show reports. A little girl called Anyelí was kidnapped from her house
- [Bill to outlaw ‘rehoming’ of adopted children to become law](https://adoptionland.org/1018/bill-to-outlaw-rehoming-of-adopted-children-to-become-law/) - AUGUSTA, Maine — Later this summer, Maine will become the sixth state to criminalize the transfer of adopted children from one family to another without approval from a court. LD 1342, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Craig Hickman of Winthrop, an adoptee himself, outlaws the transfer of long-term care and custody of a child younger than
- [INSIDE STORY OF AN ADOPTION SCANDAL](https://adoptionland.org/964/inside-story-of-an-adoption-scandal/) - ARUN DOHLE In historical terms, intercountry adoptions from India have had a short run. Within thirty years of its inception, murky scandals of child kidnapping, falsifying paperwork, outright trading,and other tragic stories have ridden these intercountry adoptions. Worldwide, adoption experts widely believed that ratifying the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect
- [The Fruits of Ethiopia](https://adoptionland.org/948/the-fruits-of-ethiopia/) - Intercountry Adoption: The Rights of the Child? or the "Harvesting" of Children Submitted by Kerry and Niels In 2009, Dutch adoption agency Wereldkinderen contracted Against Child Trafficking to conduct research into the correctness of adoption files of children adopted from Ethiopia. In October 2009, a report was finished, which summarized investigations into 25 randomly selected adoption files of
- [India police break up adoption racket of stolen babies](https://adoptionland.org/937/india-police-break-up-adoption-racket-of-stolen-babies/) - Police in the Indian capital said Wednesday they have broken up an illegal adoption racket in which newborn babies were stolen from hospitals and sold to couples. Police have arrested three members of a group operating a fake charity in New Delhi that allegedly sold two dozen babies and toddlers to couples for up to
- [Indian family desperately want to see their stolen daughter again, maybe for the last time. Stolen from India and adopted to Australia.](https://adoptionland.org/940/indian-family-desperately-want-to-see-their-stolen-daughter-again-maybe-for-the-last-time-stolen-from-india-and-adopted-to-australia/) - Fatima and Salya are the parents of four children. In 1998, one of them, then two-year-old was kidnapped then sold to a corrupt adoption agency that forged records to make it appear she had been abandoned. She was adopted by a family in Queensland, Australia. Indian police uncovered the scam in 2005 and arrested the
- [Flurry of Marshallese Adoptions in Arkansas Raises Red Flags](https://adoptionland.org/914/flurry-of-marshallese-adoptions-in-arkansas-raises-red-flags/) - A surge in private adoptions of U.S.-born Marshallese infants in northwest Arkansas led award-winning journalist Kathryn Joyce, an expert on international adoption and child trafficking, to travel to the Ozarks to investigate. We talk with Joyce about her findings, as well as with Melisa Laelan, a northwest Arkansas Marshallese community leader who is monitoring the
- [The children taken from home for a social experiment](https://adoptionland.org/910/the-children-taken-from-home-for-a-social-experiment/) - In the 1950s, a group of Inuit children were taken from their families in Greenland to be re-educated as model Danish citizens. More than 60 years later, they want the Danish government to apologise for an experiment that did enormous damage. "It was a lovely summery day, when two grand Danish gentlemen showed up at
- [Search a Child, Pay Cash](https://adoptionland.org/919/search-a-child-pay-cash/) - ADOPTION LOBBY PART 1: PART 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDxGX-9ijs PART 3: PART 4: PART 5:
- [The Uncomfortable Place of Inter-Country Adoption in the Human Rights Arena](https://adoptionland.org/781/the-uncomfortable-place-of-inter-country-adoption-in-the-human-rights-arena/) - ICA is largely the response to a demand for children in developed countries rather than to absence of care in the countries of origin. Taking children away does not lead to any improvement of the protection of children in those countries but rather the contrary. (Chou and Browne, 2008) Inter-country adoption (ICA) occupies a very
- [Guilty Plea In Adoption Fraud Case](https://adoptionland.org/903/guilty-plea-in-adoption-fraud-case/) - SEATTLE - A baby-selling scandal targeted local couples anxious to adopt. The families thought they were adopting orphans from overseas, but in many cases the babies weren't orphans. Wednesday, the woman who helped set up the adoptions pleaded guilty. Lauryn Galindo has claimed all she wanted to do was give poor third world children a
- [SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Fears over ‘trafficking’ of children to the US](https://adoptionland.org/866/special-investigation-fears-over-trafficking-of-children-to-the-us/) - By Conall Ó Fátharta Irish Examiner Reporter Concerns that up to 1,000 children may have been “trafficked” to the US from the Tuam mother and baby home in “a scandal that dwarfs other, more recent issues with the Church and State” were raised by the HSE in 2012. The warning is contained in an internal
- [Access to records for adults who were adopted scuttled in the Senate](https://adoptionland.org/855/access-to-records-for-adults-who-were-adopted-scuttled-in-the-senate/) - by J.David McSwane A widely supported effort to give adults who were adopted access to their birth records — and the potential to find birth parents or their genetic health risks — was upended in the Texas Senate Wednesday. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, presiding officer of the Senate, didn’t call for a vote on House
- [Bessborough Mother and Baby Home: It’s time these women’s voices are finally heard](https://adoptionland.org/822/bessborough-mother-and-baby-home-its-time-these-womens-voices-are-finally-heard/) - “institutionalization and human trafficking”, where “women and babies were considered little more than a commodity for trade amongst religious orders” A previously unpublished report by the HSE in 2012 examined Bessborough’s own records. The in-depth findings and conclusions are damning. Conall Ó Fátharta reports FOR years, places like Bessborough Mother and Baby Home were spoken
- [Your child is missing, would you want their adoption to be easier?](https://adoptionland.org/809/your-child-is-missing-would-you-want-their-adoption-to-be-easier-2/) - "Parents are targeted by recruiters and children are bought or stolen or sold." Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be declared International Missing Children’s Day. Surely you would expect no stone to be left unturned to find your child - even if
- [U.S. couple's adoption dream becomes a nightmare](https://adoptionland.org/778/u-s-couples-adoption-dream-becomes-a-nightmare/) - LONDON - When Emily and Matt Knudsen began the lengthy process of adopting a child from Africa, they believed they would be saving an orphan in distress. "Our biggest desire was to meet a need, to adopt a child who truly had no other options," said Emily, at the family's home near San Francisco, Calif.
- [Politics & Law They Steal Babies, Don’t They?](https://adoptionland.org/763/politics-law-they-steal-babies-dont-they/) - 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
- [Adoptionland: Brutal essays by adult adoptees expose the truth of intercountry adoption](https://adoptionland.org/504/adoptionland-brutal-essays-by-adult-adoptees-expose-the-truth-of-intercountry-adoption-2/) - 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
- [Now 70 Women Say Their Babies May Have Been Taken from them at Homer G. Phillips](https://adoptionland.org/590/now-70-women-say-their-babies-may-have-been-taken-from-them-at-homer-g-phillips/) - 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
- [Ugandan woman's agony as granddaughter 'sold' to Americans](https://adoptionland.org/757/ugandan-womans-agony-as-granddaughter-sold-to-americans/) - 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
- [Foreigners exploiting law loophole to adopt, say Ugandan MPs](https://adoptionland.org/753/foreigners-exploiting-law-loophole-to-adopt-say-ugandan-mps/) - 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
- [His mother was told that her baby died shortly after birth, but he was instead adopted by U.S. couple](https://adoptionland.org/749/his-mother-was-told-that-her-baby-died-shortly-after-birth-but-he-was-instead-adopted-by-u-s-couple/) - Santiago, Chile (CNN) It was a hug kept on hold for more than 41 years. The hug of a mother and son whose lives were abruptly separated four decades ago. Nelly Reyes had been waiting for hours in the international arrivals lounge at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, holding a hand-made red poster board
- [300,000 babies abducted in Spanish adoption scam](https://adoptionland.org/744/300000-babies-abducted-in-spanish-adoption-scam/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac3Y0-kpihg&feature=youtu.be
- [Your child is missing. Would you want their adoption to be easier?](https://adoptionland.org/740/your-child-is-missing-would-you-want-their-adoption-to-be-easier/) - Imagine for one moment your child went missing. It’s a common enough event worldwide for today, May 25, to be declared International Missing Children’s Day. Surely you would expect no stone to be left unturned to find your child - even if took six months, a year, or two. But how would you feel if
- [The Orphan Manufacturing Chain](https://adoptionland.org/693/the-orphan-manufacturing-chain/) - Who wants to buy a baby? Certainly not most people who try to adopt internationally. And yet too often that's how their dollars and euros are being used. The idea that the developing world has millions of healthy infants and toddlers in need of new homes is a myth. In poor countries as in rich
- [Children for sale](https://adoptionland.org/650/children-for-sale/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o7l4aBDHzQ&rdm=17uh1pcu&client=mv-google&app=desktop
- [‘The Child Catchers’: Evangelicals and the Fake-Orphan Racket](https://adoptionland.org/625/the-child-catchers-evangelicals-and-the-fake-orphan-racket/) - In her shocking new book, Kathryn Joyce uncovers how conservative Christians have come to dominate the international adoption circuit—and its dark underbelly. In 2009, a van from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, carrying seven young children and babies, was stopped as it drove outside the rural, central Ethiopian town of Shashemene. The children in the van were
- [The women who are trafficked on the promise of jobs and exploited sexually so that their babies can be auctioned to city couples](https://adoptionland.org/614/the-women-who-are-trafficked-on-the-promise-of-jobs-and-exploited-sexually-so-that-their-babies-can-be-auctioned-to-city-couples/) - A new industry is taking deep roots in the Capital’s underbelly. This is the great baby bazaar where bidding for a newborn starts the day a hapless woman gets pregnant, while the kid is still in the womb. Girls and young women, mostly from Jharkhand, are fodder to this illicit business. Girls and young women
- [Ladies, say 'NO!' she shouts. "We will not give away our children anymore."](https://adoptionland.org/591/ladies-say-no-she-shouts-we-will-not-give-away-our-children-anymore/) - In this May 8, 2015 photo, volunteer Anne-Marie Saintou announces that only special needs children will be treated, or allowed to live at the Mercy & Sharing residential center, as she walks in the seaside community of Luly in Arcahaie, Haiti. Saintou is part of a campaign by the nonprofit organization to warn people about
- [Father's had no say: Men tell another side of coerced adoption story](https://adoptionland.org/501/fathers-had-no-say-men-tell-another-side-of-coerced-adoption-story/) - As more mothers come forward to push for an inquiry into Canada’s historic adoption practices targeting unmarried women, fathers have emerged to say they, too, were coerced into surrendering their children. In Sutton, Ont., Raymond Cave said he was never asked to sign a surrender document in 1967, even though the people handling the adoption
- [Earthquake Orphans: What Nepal can learn from Haiti](https://adoptionland.org/439/earthquake-orphans-what-nepal-can-learn-from-haiti/) - Disaster Following the earthquake in 2010, Westerners flocked to Haiti to “rescue” orphaned and lost children. The “rescue” included the evacuation of children by plane for inter-country adoption and an increase in the number of children placed in orphanages in the following months. The problem that has since emerged is that many of the “orphans”
- [Stolen Children - Intercountry Adoption India](https://adoptionland.org/428/stolen-children-intercountry-adoption-india-2/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58xj4YX1f0k For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here.
- [Adoptees Sold by Nuns Worldwide](https://adoptionland.org/385/adoptees-sold-by-nuns-worldwide/) - Nun’s Habits in Spain It started with a whisper in Spain. A Catholic nun was charged for the first time with abducting a baby from an unwed mother which was sold to a childless couple. Sister Maria Gomez Valbuena told the mother that the baby had died at first, later admitting that it had been
- [Adoption Politics](https://adoptionland.org/175/adoption-politics/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Ebvs0HsEg the untold story of the Romanian ‘ orphans’ gives an insider’s look into the adoption kitchen, where the most used ingredients are political pressure and emotional blackmail. Post kept a diary on her work for the European Commission that aimed to help Romania reform its child protection. She soon found out that the intercountry
- [Indian family would like to see their stolen child for closure](https://adoptionland.org/300/httpwww-gofundme-comj94qoc/) - For a long time, Fatima and her family had no clue of her daughter’s existence. It was in 2005 that the police found and informed them that they might have found Zabeen after a chance expose of the kidnapping racket. She had been sent to Australia in 2000." Fatima and Sayla's (her mother and father)
- [Babies Bazaar: How Girls Are Being Sold Openly in Telangana](https://adoptionland.org/253/babies-bazaar-how-girls-are-being-sold-openly-in-telangana/) - In India's newest state of Telangana, it is possible to buy a newborn baby girl for a few thousand rupees. Source: Babies Bazaar: How Girls Are Being Sold Openly in Telangana
- [Norway authorities remove child from parents over lost tooth](https://adoptionland.org/246/norway-authorities-remove-child-from-parents-over-lost-tooth-2/) - Norwegian authorities have snatched away a Russian couple’s young son after he shared the story of a missing baby tooth with his classmates. The parents are accused of child abuse. The boy’s grandfather, Gennady Sharkikov, recounted the disturbing incident to LifeNews. On October 8, five-year-old Oscar Shianok did not come home. Norwegian Child Welfare Services
- [Mexico Case Reveals Vast Human Trafficking Scheme](https://adoptionland.org/241/mexico-case-reveals-vast-human-trafficking-scheme/) - The case of a Mexican organization which allegedly paid mothers to put their children up for adoption has highlighted the fine line between adoption and child trafficking, and suggests that the practice may be widespread in the country. A child trafficking ring uncovered by Mexican police in mid-January in Guadalajara, Jalisco has not only operated
- [Will Government Wake Up to Shameful Sale of Children?](https://adoptionland.org/231/babiesbazaar-will-government-wake-up-to-shameful-sale-of-children/) - On The Buck Stops Here, a disturbing ground report on how it is possible to get baby girls for a few thousand rupees in Nalgonda, Telangana. We ask: will the government wake up this shameful sale of children? Nobel peace laureate and founder of Bachpan Bachao Andolan Kailash Satyarthi joins the show. Source: #BabiesBazaar: Will
- [Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis](https://adoptionland.org/220/anatomy-of-an-adoption-crisis/) - It seemed like a nightmare right out of Kafka. In late 2007 and early 2008, Americans with their adopted babies in arms, or pictures of… Source: Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis
- [Australian charged with sexually abusing twins he fathered with Thai surrogate](https://adoptionland.org/216/australian-charged-with-sexually-abusing-twins-he-fathered-with-thai-surrogate/) - An Australian who fathered surrogate twins with a Thai woman has been charged with sexually abusing the children. The man, who cannot be identified, has been charged with indecent dealings of a sexual nature with the children while they were under 10. Court documents reveal he has also been charged with possessing child abuse material
- [Chile's 'Children of Silence' seek adoption truth](https://adoptionland.org/8201/chiles-children-of-silence-seek-adoption-truth/) - By Rafael Romo, CNN Nearly four decades have passed, but Cecilia Rojas cries for her son as if she had lost him yesterday. Rojas, a 58-year-old resident of the Chilean capital of Santiago, said her baby was taken shortly after she gave birth. He was born two months early, but doctors and nurses assured Rojas
- [International Adoption Trafficking Problem](https://adoptionland.org/5182/international-adoptions-trafficking-problem/) - By Gina Kim The Illusion International adoptions have an illustrious façade, conjuring images of couples saving a hungry, orphaned child and living happily ever. While imagining international adoptions as a corrupt business is abhorrent, connections to child trafficking have recently arisen. Accordingly, the State Department reports that though Americans adopted 22,991 international children in 2004,

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- [Home Page](https://adoptionland.org/home-page/) - Ever wondered what adopted people are saying right now about adoption? This anthology begins with personal accounts and then shifts to a bird’s eye view on adoption from domestic, intercountry, and transracial adoptees who are now adoptee rights activists. Along with adopted people, this collection also includes the voices of mothers and a father from
- [Dan Rather Rehoming Video and Learn About Adoption Trafficking in Korea](https://adoptionland.org/roelie-post-2/rehoming-international-adoption/) - Dan Rather Reports: Unwanted in America, The Shameful Side of International Adoption, CBC News Reports: Adoption Rehoming, and the Korea Adoption Series.
- [The Founders](https://adoptionland.org/the-founders/)
- [325KAMRA, Reuniting Korean Families Through DNA](https://adoptionland.org/325kamra-reuniting-families-through-dna/) - The primary goal of 325KAMRA is to DNA test Korean families who lost children to international adoption. We aim to provide Korean Adoptees with their true biological stories and family medical histories.
- [Osmin Tobar, the Painful Truth of Being Trafficked for International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/adoption-trafficking-awareness-symposium-in-tacoma-washington-state/osmin-tobar-the-painful-truth-of-being-trafficked-for-adoption/) - Over 30,000 children in Guatemala were adopted internationally decades ago, and learned they were trafficked for adoption.
- [About Adoption Truth and Transparency](https://adoptionland.org/about-adoption-truth-and-transparency/) - Experts on adoption history & culture, specializing in the intersection between religion and overseas adoption. A community of people separated by adoption.
- [Against Child Trafficking USA #GivingTuesday](https://adoptionland.org/giving-tuesday-against-child-trafficking-usa/) - Join the Movement We Protect US Citizens from the Crisis of Adoption Trafficking We have deep knowledge about the issues: Targeted vulnerable populations worldwide Connection to all forms of human trafficking Impact of trafficking on adopted youth Role of community leaders Policies and practices No parent should ever have their child stolen to meet the global intercountry-adoption market
- [About Adoptionland](https://adoptionland.org/the-founders/adoptionland-from-orphan-to-activist/)
- [Korean Adoptees Told They Were Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/korean-adoptees-told-they-were-orphans/) - Korean Adoptees were given the wrong information about their adoption. Some were told they were orphans. They were not. Some were told their parents had died...
- [Against Child Trafficking Founder Roelie Post](https://adoptionland.org/against-child-trafficking/) - A series of articles and TV documentaries about Against Child Trafficking’s work, most notably the documentary Search a Child, Pay Cash: The Adoption Lobby.
- [What are Adult Adoptees Saying About Adoption Today?](https://adoptionland.org/adoption-trafficking-awareness-symposium-in-tacoma-washington-state/) - Adoption stories from here and overseas, representing the U.S., First Nations, India, South Korea, Haiti, China, Chile, Guatemala, Sierre Leone, & Colombia
- [Why is International Adoption Such a Big Business in the World?](https://adoptionland.org/adoption-child-trafficking-kidnapped/) - At the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium will be deconstructing and answering questions on why adoption trafficking is such a big business worldwide...
- [Search a Child: The Adoption Lobby](https://adoptionland.org/roelie-post-2/) - The public German TV (WDR) documentary of Against Child Trafficking's work, Search a Child, Pay Cash: The Adoption Lobby, won a prestigious media prize in 2010.
- [Privacy Policy](https://adoptionland.org/privacy-policy/) - Who we are: Our website address is https://adoptionland.org. Cookies A Cookie is a piece of data from a website that is stored within a web browser that the website can retrieve at a later time. Cookies are used to tell the server that users have returned to a particular website. If you accept cookies it
- [No One Will Tell You This About Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/the-founders/adoptiontruthandtransparency-forum/) - What They Won't Tell You About Adoption Hi all, I’m Janine, a co-founder of Adoption Truth and Transparency Worldwide Information Network (2011), along with my twin sister, Jenette. Unlike groups initiated by agency lobbyists and their special-interest groups, AT@TWIN is aligned with all international and domestic treaties recognizing equal rights for all people and founded
- [ACT USA](https://adoptionland.org/actusa-2/) - Against Child Trafficking USA endeavors to help victims of child trafficking that is carried out under the ruse of overseas adoption. We support the work of ACT who trace the whereabouts of trafficked children at the request of their parents and/or relatives or reunite adopted people with their parents or extended family members. Oftentimes, the parents of trafficked
- [Interview with the Curators of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists](https://adoptionland.org/the-founders/interview-with-the-curators-of-adoptionland-from-orphans-to-activists-and-founders-of-adoption-truth-transparency/) - *Save the post to watch at your convenience. Interview is 1:35:31 Join host Marcie Keithley as she welcomes Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja and Jenette, known as the Vance Twins. Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja authored numerous books on the topic of adoption, including The Search for Mother Missing (Vance) and Adoption: What You Should
- [Author, Janine Myung Ja](https://adoptionland.org/author-janine-myung-ja/) - Janine Myung Ja is the compiler and co-editor of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists and The "Unknown" Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now. These anthologies serve to tribute domestic, transracial, and intercountry adopted people and families left behind while validating their experiences and informing them of their rights. Janine has written several feature-length screenplays
- [Curators](https://adoptionland.org/curators/) - KNOWLEDGE IS POWERAn Expanded View On Adoption Are you tired of adoptive parent-led adoption groups that try to teach about adoption, or attempt to “heal adoptees” or force us to stay “positive,” yet they can’t accept the additional burdens we face, and consistently oust our critical and insightful comments? Adoption Truth and Transparency Worldwide Network
- [Real Life Adoption Trafficking Story](https://adoptionland.org/real-life-adoption-trafficking-story/) - Operation Underground Railroad Imagine the grief of hearing your baby had died. As horrible as that sounds, that is exactly what Belle’s family was told shortly after she was born and in order to kidnap her. In this real human trafficking story, we are share Belle's remarkable journey and the powerful reunion between Belle and
- [I Want to Adopt a Baby](https://adoptionland.org/how-to-adopt-a-baby/how-to-adopt-us-kids-or-international/)
- [How Do I Adopt a Baby?](https://adoptionland.org/how-to-adopt-a-baby/) - If you are looking to adopt, ask the right questions. Do not immediately trust the adoption facilitator and do not pay the non-refundable fees until your questions are answered or sign any silent clause (or gag order) which would prevent you from obtaining justice or voicing public concerns about their practices if they did not
- [The First Step to Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/the-first-step-to-adoption/) - Should I adopt? Ask yourself (and your spouse) these questions: *Print this out and fill it out with your partner. 1. Why do you want to adopt? 2. Can you have your own children? Do you already have a child? 3. Do you think this child will save your marriage? 4. Do you think you
- [Manufactured Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/manufactured-orphans-roelie-post/) - from Sumithra Prasanna Her past holds an unexplained mystery. Tainted with lies and deception. Jyothi Svahn was adopted by a Swedish family in 1994. But the circumstances leading to her adoption remain obscure. Jyothi, now 27, still recalls the traumatic separation from her biological mother, and is determined to search for her in India. Nearly
- [Against Child Trafficking Success Story](https://adoptionland.org/against-child-trafficking-success-story-2/) - When it comes to child trafficking, Against Child Trafficking is the only charity that acknowledges the families and victims left behind as well as the adult adoptees who were stolen as children. Please consider donating to this worthy cause. Against Child Trafficking USA is a grassroots 501(c)(3) charity managed and approved by adopted people around the world. An Excerpt from "Inside Story of an Adoption Scandal" by Arun
- [Translation](https://adoptionland.org/translations/) - CHILDREN LOST IN TRANSLATION Devastatingly, many vulnerable parents around the world have been exploited by the adoption industry. Their children have been taken and are still missing because of the "permanency" involved with overseas adoption. Some vulnerable parents are tricked into signing away their children to go on a "fun" vacation, a religious camp or
- [Reviews From Readers](https://adoptionland.org/reviews/) - REVIEWS FROM AMAZON READERS "What struck me was that these writers--whether adopted from China, India, a U.S. Native Tribe, Haiti, Germany, Korea or domestically-- all wanted to find their biological families and be reunited with their people, cultures and heritages. This book would be of immense value to all those studying culture, social work or
- [Parents of Loss](https://adoptionland.org/birth-parents-of-loss/) - Do you have questions about an adoption agency? Parents of Loss Were you given counseling that encouraged you to keep your child and told you of the long-term emotional losses and lack of parental rights involved with adoption? Were you coaxed into not revealing the father of your child? Was the agency completely honest about your child's placement?
- [Website Disclaimer](https://adoptionland.org/disclaimer/) - The content in this website is for general educational purposes only. The information is provided by Against Child Trafficking USA (ACT USA) and while we endeavor to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the
- [Support Us](https://adoptionland.org/support/) - How You Are Helping Recently formed ACT USA is a registered 501c 3 and supports the investigational and legal work of Against Child Trafficking. enable field research and investigate cases. develop and spread educational materials based on the correct interpretation and proper implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://adoptionland.org/category/uncategorized/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [About The Book](https://adoptionland.org/category/adoptionland/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [About Us](https://adoptionland.org/category/about-us/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/category/adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Survivor](https://adoptionland.org/category/i-am-an-adoption-survivor/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/category/trafficking/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Africa](https://adoptionland.org/category/africa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Agency Complaints](https://adoptionland.org/category/agency_complaints/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Asia](https://adoptionland.org/category/asia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Commentary](https://adoptionland.org/category/adoption-commentary/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Canada](https://adoptionland.org/category/canada/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Europe](https://adoptionland.org/category/europe/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Excerpts](https://adoptionland.org/category/from-third-parties/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Featured](https://adoptionland.org/category/feature/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Indigenous Communities](https://adoptionland.org/category/indigenous-communities/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Long Lost Family](https://adoptionland.org/category/long-lost-family/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Media](https://adoptionland.org/category/adoption-news/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Oceania](https://adoptionland.org/category/oceania/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Rights](https://adoptionland.org/category/adoptee-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [The Americas](https://adoptionland.org/category/america/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Videos](https://adoptionland.org/category/videos/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korea](https://adoptionland.org/category/korea/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.

## Tags

- [Aboriginal stolen children](https://adoptionland.org/tag/aboriginal-stolen-children/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [ACT](https://adoptionland.org/tag/act/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adam Crapser](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adam-crapser/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoptee Rights](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoptee-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoptee Rights Matter](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoptee-rights-matter/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoptees/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Agency](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-agency/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [adoption disruptions](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-disruptions/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Healing](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-healing/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption History 101](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-history-101/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Lobby](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-lobby/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption reunion](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-reunion/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Rocks](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-rocks/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-trafficking/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [adoption Truth](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-truth/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoptionland](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoptionland/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoptive families](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoptive-families/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [adoptive parents](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoptive-parents/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adult Adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adult-adoptees/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Africa](https://adoptionland.org/tag/africa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Against Child Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/tag/against-child-trafficking/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [AgainstChildTraffickingUSA](https://adoptionland.org/tag/againstchildtraffickingusa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Alabama](https://adoptionland.org/tag/alabama/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [America](https://adoptionland.org/tag/america/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Angelina Jolie](https://adoptionland.org/tag/angelina-jolie/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Argentina](https://adoptionland.org/tag/argentina/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Arkansas](https://adoptionland.org/tag/arkansas/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Asia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/asia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Australia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/australia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Author Janine Myung Ja](https://adoptionland.org/tag/author-janine-myung-ja/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Baby Factory](https://adoptionland.org/tag/baby-factory/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [baby homes](https://adoptionland.org/tag/baby-homes/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Baby Market](https://adoptionland.org/tag/baby-market/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Baby Mills](https://adoptionland.org/tag/baby-mills/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Baby Scoop Era](https://adoptionland.org/tag/baby-scoop-era/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Baby Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/tag/baby-trafficking/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Banished Babies](https://adoptionland.org/tag/banished-babies/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Barnardos](https://adoptionland.org/tag/barnardos/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Belgium](https://adoptionland.org/tag/belgium/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Bethany Christian Services](https://adoptionland.org/tag/bethany-christian-services/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [birth certificates](https://adoptionland.org/tag/birth-certificates/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Black Market Babies](https://adoptionland.org/tag/black-market-babies/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Books](https://adoptionland.org/tag/books/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Brazil](https://adoptionland.org/tag/brazil/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Britain](https://adoptionland.org/tag/britain/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Burma](https://adoptionland.org/tag/burma/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [business of orphanages](https://adoptionland.org/tag/business-of-orphanages/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [California](https://adoptionland.org/tag/california/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Cambodia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/cambodia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Canada](https://adoptionland.org/tag/canada/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Catholic Church](https://adoptionland.org/tag/catholic-church/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Chad](https://adoptionland.org/tag/chad/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Chicago](https://adoptionland.org/tag/chicago/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Child Catchers](https://adoptionland.org/tag/child-catchers/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Child harvesting](https://adoptionland.org/tag/child-harvesting/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Child Rights Protector](https://adoptionland.org/tag/child-rights-protector/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Child Trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/tag/child-trafficking/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Children's rights](https://adoptionland.org/tag/childrens-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Chile](https://adoptionland.org/tag/chile/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [China](https://adoptionland.org/tag/china/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [China's Adoption Ministry](https://adoptionland.org/tag/chinas-adoption-ministry/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Christian Alliance for Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/tag/christian-alliance-for-orphans/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Christian Orphan Movement](https://adoptionland.org/tag/christian-orphan-movement/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Church](https://adoptionland.org/tag/church/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Citizenship](https://adoptionland.org/tag/citizenship/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Colombia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/colombia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Concerned United Birthparents](https://adoptionland.org/tag/concerned-united-birthparents/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Congo](https://adoptionland.org/tag/congo/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [CPS](https://adoptionland.org/tag/cps/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Dan Rather](https://adoptionland.org/tag/dan-rather/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [DanAdopt](https://adoptionland.org/tag/danadopt/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Denmark](https://adoptionland.org/tag/denmark/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Deported Adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/tag/deported-adoptees/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [DNA](https://adoptionland.org/tag/dna/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Domestic Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/domestic-adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [DOMINICAN REPUBLIC](https://adoptionland.org/tag/dominican-republic/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Donahue](https://adoptionland.org/tag/donahue/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Dr. Hicks](https://adoptionland.org/tag/dr-hicks/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Dubai](https://adoptionland.org/tag/dubai/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Earthquake](https://adoptionland.org/tag/earthquake/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [egg donors](https://adoptionland.org/tag/egg-donors/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Ethiopia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/ethiopia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Europe](https://adoptionland.org/tag/europe/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [European Union](https://adoptionland.org/tag/european-union/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Evangelical](https://adoptionland.org/tag/evangelical/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [False birth certificates](https://adoptionland.org/tag/false-birth-certificates/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [families of adoption loss](https://adoptionland.org/tag/families-of-adoption-loss/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Family Reunions](https://adoptionland.org/tag/family-reunions/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Fathers's Rights](https://adoptionland.org/tag/fathers-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [First Nation](https://adoptionland.org/tag/first-nation/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [First Nations](https://adoptionland.org/tag/first-nations/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Focus on Children](https://adoptionland.org/tag/focus-on-children/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Forced Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/forced-adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Forced Surrogacy](https://adoptionland.org/tag/forced-surrogacy/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Foster care](https://adoptionland.org/tag/foster-care/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [France](https://adoptionland.org/tag/france/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Georgia Tann](https://adoptionland.org/tag/georgia-tann/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Ghana](https://adoptionland.org/tag/ghana/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Greenland](https://adoptionland.org/tag/greenland/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Guatemala](https://adoptionland.org/tag/guatemala/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Hague](https://adoptionland.org/tag/hague/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Hague Adoption Convention](https://adoptionland.org/tag/hague-adoption-convention/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Haiti](https://adoptionland.org/tag/haiti/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Haitian adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/tag/haitian-adoptees/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Hicks Babies](https://adoptionland.org/tag/hicks-babies/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Holt](https://adoptionland.org/tag/holt/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Homer G. Phillips](https://adoptionland.org/tag/homer-g-phillips/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Human rights](https://adoptionland.org/tag/human-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [ICWA](https://adoptionland.org/tag/icwa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [India](https://adoptionland.org/tag/india/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Indian Child Welfare Act](https://adoptionland.org/tag/indian-child-welfare-act/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Indigenous families](https://adoptionland.org/tag/indigenous-families/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Indonesia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/indonesia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [infertile couples](https://adoptionland.org/tag/infertile-couples/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Inter-country Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/inter-country-adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [International Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/international-adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Ireland](https://adoptionland.org/tag/ireland/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Irish](https://adoptionland.org/tag/irish/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Islam](https://adoptionland.org/tag/islam/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Italy](https://adoptionland.org/tag/italy/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Janine Vance](https://adoptionland.org/tag/janine-vance/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [JCICS](https://adoptionland.org/tag/jcics/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Kathryn Joyce](https://adoptionland.org/tag/kathryn-joyce/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Kenya](https://adoptionland.org/tag/kenya/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Kidnapped](https://adoptionland.org/tag/kidnapped/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Kidnapping](https://adoptionland.org/tag/kidnapping/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korea](https://adoptionland.org/tag/korea/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korean Adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/tag/korean-adoptees/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Koreanadoptees](https://adoptionland.org/tag/koreanadoptees/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Lauryn Galindo](https://adoptionland.org/tag/lauryn-galindo/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Lebanon](https://adoptionland.org/tag/lebanon/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Legal](https://adoptionland.org/tag/legal/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Legal Guardianship](https://adoptionland.org/tag/legal-guardianship/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Letters to Omma](https://adoptionland.org/tag/letters-to-omma/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [LGBT](https://adoptionland.org/tag/lgbt/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [London](https://adoptionland.org/tag/london/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Madonna](https://adoptionland.org/tag/madonna/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Magdalene Laundries](https://adoptionland.org/tag/magdalene-laundries/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Maine](https://adoptionland.org/tag/maine/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Malawi](https://adoptionland.org/tag/malawi/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Malaysia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/malaysia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Manufactured Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/tag/manufactured-orphans/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Marshall Islands](https://adoptionland.org/tag/marshall-islands/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Mexico](https://adoptionland.org/tag/mexico/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Middle East](https://adoptionland.org/tag/middle-east/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Missing babies](https://adoptionland.org/tag/missing-babies/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [missing child](https://adoptionland.org/tag/missing-child/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Mother and Baby Home](https://adoptionland.org/tag/mother-and-baby-home/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Mother of loss](https://adoptionland.org/tag/mother-of-loss/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [MoveOn Petitions](https://adoptionland.org/tag/moveon-petitions/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Murder/Abuse](https://adoptionland.org/tag/murderabuse/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Native Americans](https://adoptionland.org/tag/native-americans/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Nepal](https://adoptionland.org/tag/nepal/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [New Zealand](https://adoptionland.org/tag/new-zealand/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Nigeria](https://adoptionland.org/tag/nigeria/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Norway](https://adoptionland.org/tag/norway/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [OBC](https://adoptionland.org/tag/obc/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Oceania](https://adoptionland.org/tag/oceania/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [One Child Policy](https://adoptionland.org/tag/one-child-policy/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Open Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/open-adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Operation Babylift](https://adoptionland.org/tag/operation-babylift/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Oprah](https://adoptionland.org/tag/oprah/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Origins](https://adoptionland.org/tag/origins/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Orphan tourism](https://adoptionland.org/tag/orphan-tourism/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Orphanage Tourism](https://adoptionland.org/tag/orphanage-tourism/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Orphanages](https://adoptionland.org/tag/orphanages/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Orphans](https://adoptionland.org/tag/orphans/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [paper orphans](https://adoptionland.org/tag/paper-orphans/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Parents of loss](https://adoptionland.org/tag/parents-of-loss/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Personal Stories](https://adoptionland.org/tag/personal-stories/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Peru](https://adoptionland.org/tag/peru/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Peruvian adoptee](https://adoptionland.org/tag/peruvian-adoptee/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Philippines](https://adoptionland.org/tag/philippines/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Philomena](https://adoptionland.org/tag/philomena/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [President](https://adoptionland.org/tag/president/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Reform](https://adoptionland.org/tag/reform/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [rehoming](https://adoptionland.org/tag/rehoming/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Roelie Post](https://adoptionland.org/tag/roelie-post/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Romania](https://adoptionland.org/tag/romania/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Russia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/russia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Samoa](https://adoptionland.org/tag/samoa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Sandy Musser](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sandy-musser/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Scotland](https://adoptionland.org/tag/scotland/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Seattle](https://adoptionland.org/tag/seattle/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Serbia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/serbia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Siberia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/siberia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Sixties Scoop](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sixties-scoop/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Smolin](https://adoptionland.org/tag/smolin/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [South Carolina](https://adoptionland.org/tag/south-carolina/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [South Korea](https://adoptionland.org/tag/south-korea/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Spain](https://adoptionland.org/tag/spain/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [sperm donors](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sperm-donors/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Sri Lanka](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sri-lanka/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [St. Louis](https://adoptionland.org/tag/st-louis/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Stolen](https://adoptionland.org/tag/stolen/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Sudan](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sudan/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Surrogacy](https://adoptionland.org/tag/surrogacy/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Sweden](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sweden/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Switzerland](https://adoptionland.org/tag/switzerland/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [SWS](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sws/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Tennessee](https://adoptionland.org/tag/tennessee/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Texas](https://adoptionland.org/tag/texas/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Thailand](https://adoptionland.org/tag/thailand/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Tourism](https://adoptionland.org/tag/tourism/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [transracial adoptees](https://adoptionland.org/tag/transracial-adoptees/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [transracial adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/transracial-adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Twins](https://adoptionland.org/tag/twins/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [U.K.](https://adoptionland.org/tag/u-k/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [U.S. Citizenship](https://adoptionland.org/tag/u-s-citizenship/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Uganda](https://adoptionland.org/tag/uganda/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Ukraine](https://adoptionland.org/tag/ukraine/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [UNCRC](https://adoptionland.org/tag/uncrc/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Unethical Adoption](https://adoptionland.org/tag/unethical-adoption/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Unicef](https://adoptionland.org/tag/unicef/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [United Adoptees International](https://adoptionland.org/tag/united-adoptees-international/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [United Nations](https://adoptionland.org/tag/united-nations/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [United states](https://adoptionland.org/tag/united-states/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Unwed moms](https://adoptionland.org/tag/unwed-moms/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Unwed Mothers](https://adoptionland.org/tag/unwed-mothers/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [USA](https://adoptionland.org/tag/usa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Utah](https://adoptionland.org/tag/utah/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Vance Twins](https://adoptionland.org/tag/vance-twins/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Voluntourism](https://adoptionland.org/tag/voluntourism/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Zimbabwe](https://adoptionland.org/tag/zimbabwe/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Donor Dad](https://adoptionland.org/tag/donor-dad/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Agency Complaint](https://adoptionland.org/tag/agency-complaint/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Christianity](https://adoptionland.org/tag/christianity/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Greece](https://adoptionland.org/tag/greece/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Stories](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-stories/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Articles](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-articles/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Boarding Schools](https://adoptionland.org/tag/boarding-schools/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Era](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-era/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Central Africa](https://adoptionland.org/tag/central-africa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Madagascar](https://adoptionland.org/tag/madagascar/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Mali](https://adoptionland.org/tag/mali/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Kara Bos](https://adoptionland.org/tag/kara-bos/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Austraila](https://adoptionland.org/tag/austraila/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Child Rights](https://adoptionland.org/tag/child-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Marshallese Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/tag/marshallese-adoptions/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Columbia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/columbia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Blue Bayou](https://adoptionland.org/tag/blue-bayou/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Monte Haines](https://adoptionland.org/tag/monte-haines/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [JustinChon](https://adoptionland.org/tag/justinchon/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Justin Chon](https://adoptionland.org/tag/justin-chon/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korea Adopted](https://adoptionland.org/tag/korea-adopted/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korean Welfare Society](https://adoptionland.org/tag/korean-welfare-society/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Mom Movement](https://adoptionland.org/tag/mom-movement/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Against Child Trafficking USA](https://adoptionland.org/tag/against-child-trafficking-usa/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [human trafficking](https://adoptionland.org/tag/human-trafficking/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-trafficking-awareness-symposium/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Washington State](https://adoptionland.org/tag/washington-state/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [South America](https://adoptionland.org/tag/south-america/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [RoevsWade](https://adoptionland.org/tag/roevswade/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Women rights](https://adoptionland.org/tag/women-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [birth mother](https://adoptionland.org/tag/birth-mother/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Somolia](https://adoptionland.org/tag/somolia/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [England](https://adoptionland.org/tag/england/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Mo Farah](https://adoptionland.org/tag/mo-farah/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Tyler Graf](https://adoptionland.org/tag/tyler-graf/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Olympics](https://adoptionland.org/tag/olympics/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Champion](https://adoptionland.org/tag/champion/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Sandy White Hawk](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sandy-white-hawk/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Arun Dohle](https://adoptionland.org/tag/arun-dohle/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Gustavo Tobar](https://adoptionland.org/tag/gustavo-tobar/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Amy Barker D'Alessandro](https://adoptionland.org/tag/amy-barker-dalessandro/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Jennifer Joy Phoenix](https://adoptionland.org/tag/jennifer-joy-phoenix/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Enrique Vila](https://adoptionland.org/tag/enrique-vila/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Maline Caroll](https://adoptionland.org/tag/maline-caroll/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Leslie Mackinnon](https://adoptionland.org/tag/leslie-mackinnon/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Nabs Nabieu](https://adoptionland.org/tag/nabs-nabieu/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Sierre Leone](https://adoptionland.org/tag/sierre-leone/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Melisa Trejo](https://adoptionland.org/tag/melisa-trejo/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Rene Gelin](https://adoptionland.org/tag/rene-gelin/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Saving Our Sisters](https://adoptionland.org/tag/saving-our-sisters/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Osmin Tobar](https://adoptionland.org/tag/osmin-tobar/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Barbara Sumner](https://adoptionland.org/tag/barbara-sumner/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Information](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-information/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Rare Adoption Books for Adults](https://adoptionland.org/tag/rare-adoption-books-for-adults/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Books](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-books/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Books for Beginners](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-books-for-beginners/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Triplets](https://adoptionland.org/tag/triplets/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Separated](https://adoptionland.org/tag/separated/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Activists](https://adoptionland.org/tag/activists/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Investigation](https://adoptionland.org/tag/investigation/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Justice](https://adoptionland.org/tag/justice/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Ohio](https://adoptionland.org/tag/ohio/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Poland](https://adoptionland.org/tag/poland/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [FBI](https://adoptionland.org/tag/fbi/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Paper Orphan](https://adoptionland.org/tag/paper-orphan/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [KBS](https://adoptionland.org/tag/kbs/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Family Rights](https://adoptionland.org/tag/family-rights/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Afghan](https://adoptionland.org/tag/afghan/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Afgahanistan](https://adoptionland.org/tag/afgahanistan/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [KSS](https://adoptionland.org/tag/kss/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [ISS](https://adoptionland.org/tag/iss/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [ESWS](https://adoptionland.org/tag/esws/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Barbie](https://adoptionland.org/tag/barbie/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [White Savior](https://adoptionland.org/tag/white-savior/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Domestic Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/tag/domestic-adoptions/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Adoption Profiteers](https://adoptionland.org/tag/adoption-profiteers/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Child Abuse](https://adoptionland.org/tag/child-abuse/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Bethany](https://adoptionland.org/tag/bethany/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [DeVos](https://adoptionland.org/tag/devos/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Migrant Children](https://adoptionland.org/tag/migrant-children/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Harry Holt](https://adoptionland.org/tag/harry-holt/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Holt International Adoption Program](https://adoptionland.org/tag/holt-international-adoption-program/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korean Adoptees Worldwide](https://adoptionland.org/tag/korean-adoptees-worldwide/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korea Adoptee](https://adoptionland.org/tag/korea-adoptee/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Forever Family](https://adoptionland.org/tag/forever-family/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Catholic Unwed Mother's Home](https://adoptionland.org/tag/catholic-unwed-mothers-home/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Vatican](https://adoptionland.org/tag/vatican/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.
- [Korean Adoptions](https://adoptionland.org/tag/korean-adoptions/) - An educational site serves as a fantastic need-to-know public directive & adds another dimension to the adoption genre, especially for those who wish to adopt.