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“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 …
Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption
“FORGET YOUR SON”: BRAZIL IS FORCIBLY TAKING INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND PUTTING THEM UP FOR ADOPTION Élida smiled when I asked for an interview, but she was hesitant to allow her youngest child to leave her lap as we recorded. As a researcher, I had prepared to attend the sixth annual Kuñangue Aty, a large gathering of women from the Kaiowá …
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 …
We want all adopters from Chile to be reviewed
Social workers in Chile have pressed mothers to leave their children. Sometimes they have been told that the children were born dead. This is what we call more than deficiencies in the review, this is human trafficking, writes Maria Diemar and Tommy Leite from the group chileadoption.se. OPINION In Chile, judge Mario Carroza investigates about 500 cases of what he suspects are …
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 …
Newborn traffickers preyed on unwed mothers, booked babies in advance for sale
Racket operators took advance money from a couple just by showing them a pregnant woman whose baby they would have passed on to them. The newborn traffickers of Jalpaiguri were constantly on the lookout for unwed mothers who were not in a position to keep and rear their children, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths have found out. The babies these …
West Bengal: Child trafficking accused BJP leader held near Nepal border
BJP leader Juhi Chowdhury, suspected to be involved in the sensational child trafficking racket in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, was arrested on Monday night close to the India-Nepal border in Darjeeling district by CID sleuths, police said.Chowdhury, who was on the run for the last few days after her name was linked to the case involving trafficking of at least …
In Hyunsu’s Memory
I am writing this letter on behalf of Hyunsu’s life and in his memory. This letter is to Hyunsu’s Korean mother, Foster mother and ALL Mothers who want to protect their children, because I believe our children are an extension of ourselves. First, I am so sorry of his tragic death and my greatest hope is that on a global …
Jolie’s adoption nightmare
By Mark Baker , Asia Editor Phnom Penh Angelina Jolie with her adopted Cambodian son, Maddox. Photo: AAP An American agent who arranged a controversial Cambodian adoption for actress Angelina Jolie is reportedly planning to surrender to US authorities to face charges of visa fraud and money laundering. Lauryn Galindo, a former Hawaiian hula dancer, has been indicted by a …
Uganda tightens foreign adoption rules to thwart child trafficking
May 14, 2015. REUTERS/JAMES AKENA KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Child rights campaigners in Uganda have welcomed a new law that restricts fast-track foreign adoptions in which children – often with living parents – can be whisked overseas in a matter of days. Lawmakers passed a bill this week that requires foreigners seeking to adopt children to live in the …
Uganda: New law makes it hard for foreigners to adopt kids
AMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan lawmakers passed a bill that says only Ugandans can be legal guardians of orphaned or destitute children, in a move aimed at stemming the rising number of adoptions by foreigners. The bill eliminates a legal gap that allowed foreigners to apply for and get legal guardianship within days of arriving in the country, said lawmaker …
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 …
The ‘orphan’ I adopted from Uganda already had a family – CNN
“CNN investigation has uncovered children purposely being orphaned, Mothers thinking they are temporarily giving up their children to be educated, instead, they’re sold to adoptive families who think they are taking an orphan in need.” Anderson Cooper For original CNN investigational report, visit here. Adam and I thoroughly researched at each step of the process in the hopes of ensuring …
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 …
Your baby is dead: Mothers say their supposedly stillborn babies were stolen from them
This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an injection. She blacked out, and when she started to come to, a male voice said: “knock her out.” She claimed she woke up sometime later and …
Li’l Adoption Truth Seeker
The ‘Speak up for South Korea’s waiting Children’ youtube video was made by an adoption agency’s CEO and a Korean Pastor in hopes of encouraging American’s support of gaining more children for international adoption. This is a response video to them. Agencies should not be allowed to label children as “orphans” unless the agency can provide proof with the death …
Over 9,000 Irish women or ‘inmates’ went through these doors, forced to repent
Originally known as Pelletstown and later as Saint Patrick’s Mother and Baby home, 361 Navan Road, Dublin 7, it was originally a public Workhouse and probably designated a ’Special institution’ exclusively for single mothers in 1904. It was converted for such usage in 1906 by George Sheridan at a cost of £11,000. Pelletstown was owned and financed by the Poor …
Exposing Adoption Lies & Propaganda #adoptiontrafficking
How Much Are American Children Worth? Jennifer Lyn Wachowski exposes lies and propaganda of the multi-billion dollar adoption industry, the selling of newborns to the highest bidders. Amber and Jennifer discuss the intricacies of adoption law – it is in the best interest of adoption attorneys and law-makers to support adoption because selling the babies of poor, marginalized mothers is …
A Mother’s Love: Creating Gracie’s Bill
A mother’s love, loss and determination has greatly impacted social awareness and created organizations such as MADD, founded by Cindy Lightner, and the well-known Amber Alert system, which Donna Norris created. The power of another mother’s love also created the Make a Wish Foundation. All of these women, and others such as the parents in Sandy Hook, turned the loss …
The Forgotten Fathers
The trauma of forced adoptions for mothers is well documented but the impact on fathers is not. How do fathers fare when babies are adopted out? They can be the forgotten characters in the story. with Ellen Fanning on Radio abc For radio interview of Adoptionland contributor, Cameron Horn listen here. Australian fathers invited to be interviewed: www.birthfathers.unsw.edu.au or visit …
