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Phil Donahue asks the hard questions about adoption.

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Featured, Media, Rights, The Americas, Videos by Adoptionland News

“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 are strongly encouraged not to …

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What is the true cost of adoption?

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Featured, Rights, The Americas, Videos by Adoptionland News

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 amounts of money in the …

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Is Adoption a Baby Business?

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, The Americas by Adoptionland News

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. Mariam claimed she had put …

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Intercountry adoptee, Patrick Noordoven, has successfully been granted some justice for his illegal adoption!

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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 …

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Adoption Lobby

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Europe, Rights, Videos by Adoptionland News

“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 …

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African Children being sold to U.S. families — CNN report

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Rights by Adoptionland News

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 schooling, placed into orphanages even …

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3-Year-Old adopted child from India Missing Since Saturday

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Rights by Adoptionland News

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 the case, but authorities said …

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Adoption Agency Complaint

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Featured, Rights by Adoptionland News

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 …

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Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

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“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

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The Dark Side of Chinese Adoptions

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Asia, Excerpts, Media, Rights, The Americas by Adoptionland News

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 …

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Thoughts of Donor-conceived Children of Gay Parents in Their Own Words

In Adoption, Excerpts, Rights by Adoptionland News

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 parents, my mother totally rocked. …

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Adopted overseas as children, they’re not U.S. citizens at all

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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 of her master’s degree by …

Los Gatos Man Sues Adoptive Parents Over Alleged Life as a ‘Sex Slave’

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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 also face criminal charges for …

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Hold the adoption agencies and authorities responsible for unethical adoptions

In Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Europe, Featured, Rights, The Americas by Adoptionland News

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 …

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I never consented for my son to be adopted

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Europe, Featured, Rights by Adoptionland News

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 …

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The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans

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 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 Saietz Dorrit Saietz is a …

We Demand an Independent Review of Adoption

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Europe, Rights, The Americas by Adoptionland News

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 that several of the adoptions …

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A letter to my Korean Omma

In About Us, Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Asia, Excerpts, Rights, The Americas by Adoptionland.org

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 태어난걸 저는 알고 있어요. I …

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The Child Citizenship Act of 2000

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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 becomes effective on February 27, …

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Adopted overseas as children, they’re not U.S. citizens at all

In Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Rights, The Americas by Adoptionland News

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 of her master’s degree by …

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Adam Crapser’s Story

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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 …

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Watch How Thousands of Children Are Being Stolen From Africa Under the Guise of Adoption

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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.

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Zoe’s ark: I am a child stolen at birth

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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 (Eric Breteau and his colleague Emilie …

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Black Market Babies?

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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.

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