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They 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 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 …
Long Lost Family (UK) Season 7, Episode 6
View PostIndia/Denmark Adoption Trafficking
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 what was the role and …
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”
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.
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 …
Cambodia-Adoption Scandal
Published on May 29, 2012 The Cambodian Adoption Scandal involving Lauryn Galindo- the facilitator that Angelina Jolie used. 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. To read more, click the news below. Read Vice’s Cambodian Adoption Fraud here. Help …
International Adoption 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, the implementation of The Hague …
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, nothing is as it seems. …
A Chilean Adoptee intends to initiate the legal process after scandal
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 in an apartment in central …
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 …
Real Parents Don’t Celebrate Adoption
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 own unethical activities. Also, when …
‘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 there cried as well. It …
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 …
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 …
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 as counselors, therapists, more “evaluators”, …
The Truth About China’s 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 the safety of North American …
‘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 that has raised millions of …
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 ial and Interior Minister Karen …
A search warrant to the adoption agency, Holt Child Welfare Foundation
A SEARCH WARRANT TO THE ADOPTION AGENCY, HOLT CHILD WELFARE FOUNDATION “Police find 22 missing children and disabled people with 100 days intensive investigation (Seoul-Yonhap News) Kwon, Yeong-jeon, a police officer, has conducted a 100-day intensive investigation into children and disabled persons who have been missing for over a year. The National Police Agency said on July 4 that a …
Adoption Agency Complaint
Do You have an Adoption Complaint? Every Life Matters. Below is a list of questions. Feel free to answer one or all of them and return email to actusa@riseup.net with Adoption Complaint on the subject line. And then share this questionnaire with your adopted friends. We want to leave no adoptee behind. *If you were not adopted from South Korea, but were abused inside the adoptive …
It’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 …
CHINA: Illustrates Tragedy of Child Abductions
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 blogger who co-produced and directed …
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 she was going on a …
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 targeted by adoption traffickers. Your …
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,” …
10 Reasons Why You Should NOT Adopt Overseas in 2022
View PostThe 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 and without much paperwork. That …
Exposing India’s Illegal Baby Trade – Journeyman
“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 grieved, hoped, and lost hope …
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, nothing is as it seems. …
The Crisis of Adoption Trafficking in Ethiopia
My husband and I began our second Ethiopian adoption back in 2008. We had brought home our beautiful son in 2006. We wanted children so badly and fell in love with the country, the people, and of course our son. We knew our daughter was also ‘waiting’ for us there. Our story causes us heartbreak not only because of what happened to our child and her family but how selfish and naïve we were in hindsight, we genuinely didn’t know—we hadn’t found the forums.
The Crisis of Adoption Trafficking in Ethiopia
My husband and I began our second Ethiopian adoption back in 2008. We had brought home our beautiful son in 2006. We wanted children so badly and fell in love with the country, the people, and of course our son. We knew our daughter was also ‘waiting’ for us there. Our story causes us heartbreak not only because of what happened to our child and her family but how selfish and naïve we were in hindsight, we genuinely didn’t know—we hadn’t found the forums.
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 or fourth family. They must …
Briefing You Should Listen to About 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 after. They seemed receptive. If …
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 child welfare, but through reproductive …
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 newfound family. In the space …
