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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.
Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostAdopted Child, Deported Adult. Wazulu’s 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 of Indian influenced Hip Hop …
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 the book, I was given …
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 Indian-American couple in 2016, died …
Adopted man found dead after returning to Korea to find his biological parents
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 was found dead in a …
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 an adoption agency, to America. …
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 started living with the couple …
Adam Crapser’s 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 my children, so they don’t …
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 …
We are approaching the one year anniversary of Hyunsu’s 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 on what is the best possible …
My illegal adoption was kept secret for nearly FIVE decades
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 by an uncle led to …
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 get a copy of Adoptionland: From …
Long Lost Family U.S.
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 on industry practices, go to …
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 discover their stories. Cecelia dedicates …
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 Maori: healing the past, transforming …
BBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine
View PostChild Trafficking: Victim representatives call for 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 and cantonal support. The conclusion …
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 concept of adoption is a …
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 …
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 Post and Courier’s feature …
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 mandate” or the “Baby Scoop …
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 …
Adam Crapser to be Deported
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 have a difficult time adjusting …
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: …
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 industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To …
