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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 make a difference in adoptees …
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 wife if we could have …
Should adopted children have the right to contact their natural mother?
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 it. But some need it. I …
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 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 …
Bringing Children Adopted By Foreigners And Indian Parents Together, One Reunion At A Time
View PostKara 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 …
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 …
Read This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption
Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …
New Adoptionland Youtube Channel
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 …
Mo Farah Reveals a Secret
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 is not the only one …
BBC interviews Against Child Trafficking
Arun Dohle a contributor of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, “I Can Never Forget: AFTERNOON. HOLIDAY. SUN IS SHINING. Normal people would spend this time with their family, but for those of us involved with Against Child Trafficking, this is not an option. Instead, we keep working and fighting (against all odds) for adoptee and children’s rights. But none of …
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 that they were saints and …
Baby Trafficking
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 identities without question and never …
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 …
FBI Begins Investigation into Girls Home.
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View PostMonte Haines: SBS Interview about Korean Adoptee Deportations
Contributor of The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now, Monte was born in 1970 in South Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa in 1978 through Holt International on an IR-4 visa. His adoption was never finalized, and then Monte was again relinquished. He bounced around between several foster homes before his parents legally …
Adoption: South Koreans Makes Them and Americans Buys Them
View PostKara 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, …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostThe 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 as Colombia, Brazil, India, Sri …
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 the laws. “What I stumbled …
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. We demand of the Swedish …
I never consented for my son to be adopted
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 till 2015. Had a relationship …
Magdalene Laundries: 20 years since the last laundry closed in Ireland, five survivors tell their heartbreaking stories
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 laundries since the foundation of …
The Story of Stolen Babies for Adoption, Georgia Tann
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 1950.” Unsolved Mysteries Source: Georgia Tann: …
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 out of wedlock or in …
China’s 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 Dream” group look for either …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostI’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 …
The Truth About Our ‘Abandonment’ By Kara Bos
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, and according to this Nationality …
Al Jazeera: Canada’s 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 thousands of families have torn …
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 is happening now? Over the …
‘Making mistakes with people’s 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 kinds of voluntourism. Late Night …
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 best safeguard against child trafficking. …
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 baby-selling business. In the late …
Ricki’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 …
Bringing Children Adopted By Foreigners And Indian Parents Together, One Reunion At A Time
View PostMissing Children in Korea
View PostThis book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.
View PostThey Took Us Away From Our Mom.
“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 schools, stripping them of their …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostTwin Brothers Stolen and Sold to the Black Market: Interviewed by Oprah
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 gang kidnapped them at age …
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 in Hangzhou in 10 or …
Adoption 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.
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 …
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 …
Canada’s Forced Adoption Practices Released
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 Social Affairs, Science and Technology …
