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The 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 …
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 …
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: 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 …
Adoptive parents pass on unwanted children to strangers via internet
“Lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been alerted by the media to the worrying trend of so-called online re-homing for adopted children. The term describes transactions between foster parents who want to get rid of kids they regret adopting, to strangers who can’t or won’t adopt through legal channels. Marina Portnaya investigates what turns out to be a thriving practice.” RT Published …
Scores of Children Illegally Adopted
Dr. Irene Creedon took in babies from vulnerable mothers at her surgery She allowed adoptive parents to register children as their own Operations uncovered by mother-of-two when she began tracing her birth A well-known family doctor arranged scores of illicit and illegal adoptions across the nation over at least two decades, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Dr. Irene …
Adopted Chinese children search for biological parents in bid to understand past
“I am 200 percent sure that she is my daughter… Now I’m calling all of my relatives,” a father from East China’s Jiangxi Province wrote on October 19 after spending 24 years searching for his second daughter, who was sent to a foster home and adopted in the US in 1993. The message was sent to Lan, a US resident …
Orphan Adoption or Child Trafficking?
The Truth. Published on Jan 15, 2017 Today’s video is about a sensitive issue: orphanages and adoption. Is our Western demand for orphans fueling an international adoption industry? I discuss what I’ve learned, and alternatives that exist. https://adoptionland.org/p/6279/being-called-anti-adoption/ To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here or to read the Huffington Post article on Adoptionland, visit here.
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 …
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 …
Merchant law firm launches class-action lawsuit for ’60s Scoop’ adoptees
Victim of ’60s Scoop’ shares his experience reuniting with Saskatchewan family The Merchant Law Group served the Federal Government the class-action lawsuit on January 30. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the government ran an Adopt Indian Métis program. That program saw thousands of aboriginal children taken from their homes and adopted into white families in Canada and the United States. …
A Native Child’s Story: Spirit of the Lakota
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee A Girl Called ‘Lost Bird’ Is Finally at Rest: History: Lakota infant survived Wounded Knee killing and was adopted by whites. Now she is buried among her people. WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — Nobody knows her birth name. Zintkala Nuni, the Lakota call her. Lost Bird. Today, she is lost no more. A century after the …
The Adoption Industry – Collusion, Coercion and Confusion
SPECIAL TOPIC Night – “For Our Kids” – Deborah Maddison and Eugenea Couture, Canadian activists from British Columbia, will join Bill Murray to lead this evening’s discussion about the Rights of Children and Families in North America. ~~ TONIGHT’S TOPIC: ” The Adoption Industry – Collusion, Coercion and Confusion.” Adoption is a multi-billion dollar industry that profits off of children and cloaks itself in almost impenetrable …
The Worldview of International Adoption
Worldview producer Alexandra Salomon gives us a special look into the world of international adoption, and some of its origins. (Also, we talk to Vali Nasr about a settlement framework for Syria.) Radio interview about the history of international adoption starts in 14:56 of the program. (Photo: Associated Press/Gosia Wozniacka) Original link visit here. Many believe that withholding U.S. Citizenship from …
African Children being sold to U.S. families — CNN report
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 …
3-Year-Old adopted child from India Missing Since Saturday
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 …
Canada to Pay Millions in Indigenous Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions
By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world. On Friday, the Canadian government took a step to make amends for that adoption program, which began in the 1960s and lasted till the 1980s, by agreeing to pay …
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 …
“Do you understand that your baby goes away and never comes back?”
Nurses traded horror stories involving tearful and confused new mothers, who asked whether they were allowed to hold or feed their babies. On July 29, 2014, Maryann and Dexter Koshiba, 32 and 37 years old, sat, utterly exhausted, in a recovery room at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. That morning, Maryann had given birth to a baby girl, …
Adoption Healing
Understanding the Wound In this important series you will begin to understand how having been adopted may be affecting many aspects of your life. It is encouraged that all three parts are viewed. Part 1: In this episode Shavasti shares his work with adoptees and introduces us to a fresh way of looking at all those involved: the adopted …
Los Gatos Man Sues Adoptive Parents Over Alleged Life as a ‘Sex Slave’
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 …
A Native Child’s Story: Spirit of the Lakota
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee A Girl Called ‘Lost Bird’ Is Finally at Rest: History: Lakota infant survived Wounded Knee killing and was adopted by whites. Now she is buried among her people. WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — Nobody knows her birth name. Zintkala Nuni, the Lakota call her. Lost Bird. Today, she is lost no more. A century after the …
