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Holt’s Front Door
Why is this a big deal? Because the front door is typically reserved for their customers—paying people applying for a child—checkbook in hand. Adopted people are expected to enter through the back, asking questions in a hushed tone, so as not to make a scene. For years (decades, really), there’s been talk in certain adoption circles that we need to …
Toddler’s 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 deep connection to him, and …
Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
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 stolen heart from a corpse, …
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 any details. Dohle moved court. …
What are Families Separated by Adoption Saying Today?
View PostTyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium
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 for an all-day private event …
Adoption Town Hall Meeting
View PostAdoption Scandal in Indonesia – Baby Trade Closed
View PostAdoption: South Koreans Makes Them and Americans Buys Them
View PostBLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon
View PostAdoption Trafficking Presentation
View PostHistory 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”
BBC Sounds: Adoptees from South Korea Call for an Investigation
View PostAre Korean Adoptees Labeled as Orphans? Investigation needed.
View PostPriyangika will stop all foreign adoptions
View PostS. Korean adoptees allege they are wrongfully adopted.
View PostIt’s Time to 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. All other trafficking focuses on …
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 that had a mom, never,” she …
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’. With the help of human …
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 Adoptionland, visit here.
What are Families Separated by Adoption Saying Today?
View PostTyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium
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 for an all-day private event …
Adoption Town Hall Meeting
View PostMeet 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 in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Adoption: South Koreans Makes Them and Americans Buys Them
View PostBLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon
View PostAdoption Trafficking Presentation
View PostIntercountry 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 other intercountry adoptees! Visit here …
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 their families. At the end …
BBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine
View PostThe Real Monte Haines Deportation Story
This Korean Adoption Book Reveals the Secrets and Truth about Korean Adoptions. “Hello, my American name is Monte Haines, and my Korean name is Han Ho Kyu. At age eight, I arrived in Iowa almost 6500 miles from Seoul, South Korea. I was scared and had no idea where I was. I was given a small room to sleep in, …
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 Adoptionland, visit here.
Saving the World’s “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 files. As her understanding and …
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 not just your family but …
Adoption Trafficking Presentation
View PostHistory 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”
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 published by Newsy.
I’m looking for you 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 says that since she was …
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 mother-daughter reunion that brought Oprah …
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?
2021 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 trafficking. If your agency does …
Chinese Adoptions and Rehoming
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, Ethiopian, and Mexican born children,” …
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 connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …
Tyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium
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 for an all-day private event …
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 7:41 “To me, my biggest regret has been losing …
FBI Begins Investigation into Girls Home.
View PostBLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon
View PostPrivate 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 published by Newsy.
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 old. “Although it is only …
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 in France. As of today, …
Tyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium
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 for an all-day private event …
Adoption Town Hall Meeting
View PostFBI Begins Investigation into Girls Home.
View PostRicki’s Promise.
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 feet, so no one would …
BLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon
View PostAdoption Trafficking Presentation
View PostPrivate 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 published by Newsy.
