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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 …
American To Stand Trial Over Guatemalan Adoptions – NPR News
Guatemala was once one of the world’s most popular adoption destinations, but stopped the practice after mass corruption was exposed. An American woman is set to stand trial over related charges. To hear the NPR news visit this site. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Guatemala was once one of the most popular countries for foreign adoption, just after China. Ten years ago …
China’s Child Laundering Industry
Parents in China have for years faced an agonizing prospect: having their child abducted and sold into a trafficking ring. The problem is remarkably common and intractable, with tens of thousands of children going missing in the country every year. The industry that has sprung up around child trafficking—involving the police, doctors, nurses, and hospitals—explains why the problem has reached …
Manufactured Orphans
The documentary Manufactured Orphans will air on Jan. 31 at 8pm Singapore time. “Nearly 90% of the estimated 143 million children in orphanages worldwide are not orphans at all. They are systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. The adoption industry is a huge market driven by money where orphans are ‘manufactured’. With the help of human …
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.
President Barack Obama
January 10, 2017 President Barack Obama Attn: Neil Eggleston, Senior White House Counsel 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20500 We ask that you please pardon Sandy Musser. Sandy lost a child to adoption in 1954 during a time called the Baby Scoop Era. This era started after the end of World War II. A network of special interest groups—mainly …
“Certificate of Orphanhood”
Every child who enters an orphanage comes from a family—a family who needs help and could provide care if the money spent on adoption was used to uplift and rebuild the family. Many parents in other countries perceive orphanages to be community centers, boarding schools, temporary housing, hostels, hospitals. Do not assume that the children in orphanages do not have …
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 …
Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
Compiled by the Vance Twins, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, is an indispensable contribution to adoption literature. The essays, poems and letters in this compilation reflect the thoughts, the feelings, the souls of those who inhabit AdoptionLand — a place of truth and acceptance for the casualties of the demand for children. “I feel like a stolen heart from a corpse, …
Adoptees have homes; their files can’t find one
SYRACUSE, NY – Forty-eight boxes on wooden pallets take up a space 15 yards long and six yards wide in the basement of lawyer Robert Lahm’s office building in Syracuse. Inside them are about 1,000 files carrying information about Central New Yorkers who were adopted over the past 20 years – their medical histories, their adoptive parents’ finances, and in …
Couples devastated by adoption scam
Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico have been left devastated by the affair, they said tonight. While the lawyer at the centre of the baby trafficking plot remains on the run, the families who returned home last weekend have insisted they believed they were acting legally. Offices belonging to the Lopez Y Lopez firm …
ADOPTION ATTORNEYS DEFEATED IN ATTEMPT TO REVOKE ICWA
Native American families experienced a major legal victory this week, as a federal court judge threw out a case that attempted to argue ICWA violated the civil rights of Indian parents. United States District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee dismissed the lawsuit, initially filed by the National Council For Adoption Attorneys, which sought to decimate the Department of Justice’s recent release …
Adoption Relinquishment
Pregnant and Considering Adoption? What The Adoption Agencies Will Not Tell You About Adoption Relinquishment If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and are considering becoming a birthmother and making an adoption plan there are some things you should know about first- as in BEFORE you contact an adoption agency! Adoption relinquishment is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. …
Things I Wish I Knew Before Adoption Entered my Life
This Grown in My Heart Adoption Carnival Topic was supposed to be “10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was Touched By Adoption”, but I can’t use the feel good wording of “touched”. I was not touched by adoption, it’s more like torched, trampled, traumatized, terrorized, tortured and torn apart by adoption. Overall, I feel like I allowed the …
Thinking of Placing Your Baby for Adoption? Think very hard.
Should you give your baby up for adoption? YOU WANT THE BEST FOR YOUR BABY AND YOU’VE HEARD THAT PLACING YOUR BABY FOR ADOPTION WITH AN OLDER, WEALTHIER COUPLE IS BEST. The truth is according to child welfare experts that in most cases staying with you, his mother, is the best for your child. Your body is preparing for your …
Savior or Neocolonialism
A Still from Vanessa Beecroft’s The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins. Photograph: Vanessa Beecroft Film by Pietra Brettkelly “Without the knowledge of her husband, on her third visit to South Sudan, Vanessa attempts to adopt the twins. In a shell-shocked building the father of the twins puts his thumbprint to 10 copies of an affidavit.” Pietra Brett Kelly followed …
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 …
Magdalene Laundries: 20 years since the last laundry closed in Ireland, five survivors tell their heartbreaking stories
THIS weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the closure of the last Magdalene Laundry in Ireland. On September 25 1996, Ireland’s final laundry, which was located on Sean MacDermott Street in Dublin and run by the Sisters of Our Lady, closed its doors for good. While it’s not known for definite, it’s estimated that 10,000 women were institutionalised in laundries since the foundation of …
Indian Adoption Era: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
This is a work sample trailer of the research and development footage for Blood Memory, a feature-length documentary film exploring the Indian Adoption Era and the controversial role of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). For full website visit here. Adoptionland.org provide current (and past) issues in adoption. We offer a deeper and wider description of adoption as opposed to …
A Search for Family in Haiti Raises Questions about Adoption
November 27, 2015 | Ben Fox | AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Mariette Williams waited for her flight from South Florida to Haiti, she paced the departure lounge, folding and re-folding her ticket and clutching the handle of a bag sagging with gifts. She was excited but terrified: For the first time in nearly 30 years, she was about to …
Samoan Adoption Scandal
Between 2002 and 2005, parents in Samoa were tricked by an American adoption agency into giving up their children. They were falsely told that signing their children up for this “program”, their children could benefit from an American education; they would receive photographs and regular communication; and the children would return at age eighteen. The adoption agency, Focus on Children (FOC), then …
Babies for Export – Guatemala
Most babies go to the USA where demand is high. “It is difficult,” says one mother, “After she had gone I didn’t eat for days.” Such is the demand that babies are even being kidnapped. Changing hands for $3000 on the black market. To prevent the illegal adoption of kidnapped babies compulsory blood tests have been introduced by the American …
