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Holt’s Front Door
Why is this a big deal? Because the front door is typically reserved for their customers—paying people applying for a child—checkbook in hand. Adopted people are expected to enter through the back, asking questions in a hushed tone, so as not to make a scene. For years (decades, really), there’s been talk in certain adoption circles that we need to …
East African Nations To Ban Foreigners From Adopting African Children
By: Divta Asiimwe AFRICANGLOBE – Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, who are currently sitting in Kampala, want EAC partner states to abolish international child adoption to stop the likelihood of children falling into the hands of traffickers. EALA on August 19 passed a general-purpose report on the rights of the child, which wants EAC partner states — Uganda, …
Fusion: AdoptionTrafficking
Roelie Post interviewed here: The Traffickers, The Dark Side of Adoption, available on Netflix here. FUSION PRESENTS: The Trafficker Click on the link below for the episode preview: The Dark Side of Adoption Inside the underworld of international adoption Who’s really profiting from international adoptions? Is this adoption agency selling children? In many developing countries the concept of adoption is a …
The American babies sold for as little as $100 in black-market adoption trade
By Philip Sherwell, New York Gertrude Pitkanen conducted illegal abortions and sold unwanted babies in Montana from the 1920s for three decades. Now “Gertie’s Babies” are using new DNA-sharing websites to try to find relatives. They call themselves Gertie’s Babies, but they are all ageing adults now, connected only by the furtive manner in which their lives began as part …
Fraud and Heartbreak Can Plague Adoptions From Africa
Government officials say sometimes parents are told their children will get an education abroad, but the youths are being adopted through shady agencies. KAMPALA, Uganda—When impoverished mother Nakiwala Hasifa signed legal guardianship papers to let a Christian pair from Mississippi have custody of her five-year-old son, Stuart Bukenya, in 2009, she thought she would hear from him regularly and that …
Imagine being told your child is dead, only to find out he is actually alive!
With orphanages being closed, Grace Center is receiving more and more children in the full-time residential care facility, known to many as the children’s home or temporary care center. Six of our children came from one corrupt orphanage when it was closed. All of these children have different stories of how they actually came to be declared “abandoned”. One of …
Saving Our Sisters from Domestic Adoption Trafficking
Amber Geislinger speaks with Lynn Johansenn, adoption reform activist and founder of Saving Our Sisters. Saving Our Sisters is a non-profit grassroots charity saving mommies and babies from domestic adoption trafficking. Lynn is a hero, an inspiration to activists and survivors of adoption trafficking. She tells her personal story as a natural/biological mother who fell victim to the multi-billion dollar …
Kenya – Babies for Sale
Many cases of missing children, some barely a few days old, are reported in Kenya. While some eventually end up as cases of kidnapping by ransom seekers, many children are literally sold to buyers seeking a shorter route to child adoption or to traffickers eyeing international child markets. Citizen’s TV Michael Njenga went undercover to unmask the faces behind the criminal …
Owner of Utah County adoption agency arrested
(KUTV) James Charles Webb, owner of the Adoption Center of Center, or ACC, in American Fork, was arrested on Friday, charged with taking $100,400 in payments from four families who expected he would help them adopt babies. The families never adopted the babies but Webb kept the money, according to court documents. Webb was also charge with four counts of …
Many Adoptions Based on False Information
Since a few years ago came to light that adopted children from Ethiopia were ‘harvested’ and conned from their parents, caused a stir. But adoptions from numerous other countries saves on false papers, lies and deceit. Now a new law on the way to provide secure adoptions – maybe. The affluent South Korea is considered a model country for international …
Catholic Charities and Holt
Three year old Madoc (aka Hyunsu) was adopted from South Korea under the new laws by Brian and Jennifer O’Callaghan in October 2013. He had a diagnosis of hydrocephalus. He died less than 4 months after his arrival in his adoptive home with a skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, eye hemorrhaging, trauma to his scrotum, and other evidence of …
Living with Dead Hearts
“We saw a person grab my son and take him away. No one could find him, it was as if he had evaporated.” A Chinese Father “The feeling of losing your child, it’s like …like being hopeless. We are living with dead hearts.” A Chinese Mother “The orphanages classified the children as ‘orphans’ or ‘abandoned’….and put them up for international …
Illegal adoptions pose complications in searches for birth parents
Paula Douglas’s birth certificate was forged and she cannot trace her birth mother. Paula Douglas has known she was adopted from as early as she can remember. Her Irish mother Lil Holmes told her when she was four. Yet, she remained puzzled. According to her birth certificate, her adoptive parents, Ronn and Lil Holmes, were her natural parents. When …
Shocker: Over 20 children go missing in Delhi every day
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Over 20 children go missing every day in the national capital and most of them become victims of organised crimes like prostitution, pornography and organ trade, according to a child rights group. Child Rights and You (CRY) said that Delhi Police informed it in reply to a Right to Information query that “a whopping 7,928 …
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, …
Lebanon’s disappeared children: The darker side of international adoption
By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …
