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Official Involved in Birth Certificate Fraud Turns Himself In
By Fan Yiying In China, fake documents obtained from the black market can be used to legitimize trafficked children. Government official who for years sold fake birth certificates has surrendered himself to the authorities, Sixth Tone’s sister publication The Paper reported on Thursday. Falsified documents can be used to legitimize trafficked children and babies born out of wedlock or in …
China’s Illicit Adoption Market Goes Online
by Cai Yiwen Children traded through chat groups and forums could be trafficked, warns lawyer. With China’s often long and cumbersome adoption process, many prospective parents are turning to internet chat groups to buy children instead, The Beijing News reported Tuesday. On messaging app QQ, the more than 470 members of the “Home to Fulfill Your Dream” group look for either …
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 …
Tears for Views: Reality TV for Loved Ones Lost
by Owen Churchill and Li You ‘Waiting for Me’ helps desperate families track down missing relatives, provided they are willing to relive trauma on stage. Song Xianzhong is talking through the photos of his grandchildren that hang above the bed. “This one is my granddaughter. Everyone says she looked like a boy when she was little,” he laughs. Then the …
Korean American adoptees furious at light sentence for toddler killer
DAMASCUS, MD (WUSA9) — – Advocates for children adopted from South Korea are furious about the light sentence handed on Tuesday to a Marine Corps vet who killed his 3-year-old adopted son. Madoc Hyunsu O’Callaghan was buried here in an all but unmarked grave. Adult adoptees from South Korea want to know how it’s possible that the dad who admitted hurling the …
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 …
Israel Delves Into Charged 1950s Missing Children Saga
By ARON HELLER, ASSOCIATED PRESS The stories have been circulating in Israel for decades: Newborn babies and young children of Jewish immigrants from Arab countries mysteriously disappeared shortly after arriving in the country, purportedly snatched away and given to childless couples of European backgrounds. Although a series of inquiries have dismissed claims of abductions, the accusations of a conspiracy have lingered. …
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 …
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 …
Dark side of inter-racial adoption surfaces
(Former) Washington State Senator Paull Shin, French digital economy minister Fleur Pellerin and French Senator Jean-Vincent Place. They all have something in common. All three are Korean adoptees who have become successes in their adopted countries. Behind the success stories of those people, however, are others who suffer emotional distress after being adopted by foreign parents. Adoptees’ rights activists say …
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 …
Bali orphanages: How tourist cash funds a racket
As tourism has boomed in Bali, it has had a strange side-effect, doubling the number of orphanages on the island in 20 years. Tourists’ donations keep the orphanages going – but some are effectively rackets, exploiting children and holidaymakers alike. I met Pam and Samantha, an Australian mother and daughter who had traveled all the way from Perth, with a …
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 …
Father Begins Legal Fight To Get Infant Back From Adoptive Parents
LOGAN — Utah’s controversial laws regarding a father’s rights in adoption procedures are in the spotlight again. On Friday, a 20-year-old man who claims he just lost his newborn daughter to an unwanted adoption began the legal fight to get her back.The attorney hired by Colby Nielsen called a press conference Friday afternoon to make his arguments to the public, …
Children in Nepal are Easy Victims
Chaos after the earthquake increases the risk that children disappearing and being abused by criminal gangs. Another powerful earthquake struck today (13, May 2015) Nepal and led many to run out into the street in panic. But the chaos that reigns in the country after two major earthquakes in less than a month – and countless aftershocks – will now …
THE PERVERSE EFFECTS OF THE HAGUE ADOPTION CONVENTION
This article describes the effects that the Hague Adoption Convention had on adoptions from Romania. The aim of the Hague Convention was to guarantee that intercountry adoption would take place in the interest of the child, with respect for his/her fundamental rights, and to prevent the abduction, sale of or trafficking in children. Romania was one of the first countries …
Politicians close their eyes for adoptions backing
One country after another closed down adoption because of suspected corruption and child trafficking. Yet Danish politicians are more concerned with ensuring childless families may adopt than to scrutinize the cases where adoption has gone wrong. KRONIKEN 31 MAY. 2016 Ethiopia is now definitively closed to Danish families who want to adopt. In March soc ial and Interior Minister Karen …
A new narrative of transnational adoption
Uprooting children from a foreign culture to start a new life in Denmark can be fraught with difficulty. Adoptees and experts reflect on the history of transnational adoption and offer their views on how to ease tensions and create a more inclusive society for children brought up in Denmark with complicated cultural ties. By Natasha Jessen-Petersen When you adopt, you …
Watch How Thousands of Children Are Being Stolen From Africa Under the Guise of Adoption
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.
Adopted teen denied driving permit
By, Madison Wade, WBIR A Knox County mother wants answers after her adoptive daughter from Guatemala was denied a driver’s license permit twice. 16-year-old Emily Williams is eager to get behind the wheel in East Tennessee. She’s been studying hard and practicing often to hopefully get her drivers permit soon. “I’ll be like a normal teenager, who will be able …
