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Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostDid you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans?
View PostBBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine
View PostDid you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans?
View PostWe 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 …
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 …
Danish International Adoption Has Been Reported to the Police
Danish International Adoption has been reported to the police after the information came to light that several children may have been trafficked to Denmark. Journalist Camilla Boje Hertz and Jessica Skovmose The adoption center DIA (Danish International Adoption) has been reported to the police for possibly being instrumental in illegal adoptions between 1979 and 1995. This happens after a TV …
Adoption Documents Forgery: Korean Social Services
In the Danish adoption papers, I was an orphan found in Busan. In 2016, after I requested adoption documents from Korea, the Korean Social Service Society (KSS) sent me an email saying they regretted falsifying the information that I was an orphan, and they said that I was born, raised, and made by someone. “I finally found my mother after …
Afghan couple sues U.S. Marine for allegedly abducting baby
Yamiche Alcindor, Washington Week An Afghan couple are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby. The Marine asked a federal judge to dismiss the case, insisting that he and his wife are the child’s legal parents. On Washington Week Recommends, Yamiche Alcindor talks to Juliet Linderman, who has been reporting on this story, to learn …
Why Did You Adopt Me to a Pedophile? In An Unfamiliar Land, as The Only Asian…
View PostNew Adoptionland Youtube Channel
View PostTyler Graf at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium
Tyler Graf and fellow panelists at the Adoption Trafficking Awareness Symposium. Adopted? Your opinion matters. Fill out the survey here. What are adult adoptees saying about adoption today? Hear the stories from across the nation and overseas, representing the U.S., First Nations, India, Sierra Leone, South Korea, Haiti, New Zealand, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, and Colombia for an all-day private event …
Mo Farah Reveals a Secret
Olympic champion Mo Farah reveals he was trafficked as a child | Nightline Four-time Olympic Gold Medalists, Moses, one of the fastest long-distance runners, shares his secret from his past. Born in Somalia, brought into the UK illegally using another child’s name. This is also called Adoption Trafficking. Watch the video below to learn he is not the only one …
MSNBC: Abortion Rights
View PostManipulative Counseling Tactics On How To Give Informed Consent For Adoption
View PostThe Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions
South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …
Concerns on Harry Holt and His 1954 Overseas Adoption Program
My past is based on a long list of experiences with intercountry adoption, which started when I was adopted overseas to the United States in 1972 with my twin. I have been researching the issue since my first trip back to my birth country in 2004. From examining the memoirs of the pioneers who set up the intercountry child welfare …
The History of Harry Holt & International Adoption Program
View PostThe Crisis of Adoption Trafficking in Ethiopia
My husband and I began our second Ethiopian adoption back in 2008. We had brought home our beautiful son in 2006. We wanted children so badly and fell in love with the country, the people, and of course our son. We knew our daughter was also ‘waiting’ for us there. Our story causes us heartbreak not only because of what happened to our child and her family but how selfish and naïve we were in hindsight, we genuinely didn’t know—we hadn’t found the forums.
Rev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostSouth Korea National Assembly Conference on International Adoption
National Assembly Debate to Seek the Current Status of International Adoptees’ Human Rights and Ways to Guarantee Human Rights Survey results https://www.youtube.com/live/TuzWJzl5YhA?feature=share LEARN HOW HARRY HOLT STARTED THE OVERSEAS ADOPTION PROGRAM IN SOUTH KOREA, WHICH NOW SERVES AS THE FOUNDATION OF IA WORLDWIDE. Publisher’s Summary Has the global manmade market for children exploited mothers, fathers, families, and communities? Gain a …
China’s Adoption Trafficking Crisis
Why do thousands of children in China disappear every year? Adoption Trafficking 200,000 children are believed to be stolen from China every year. In 1994, this Chinese father’s child was stolen in broad daylight. For 2 decades he put up missing children posters (like below) and became a taxi driver so he could look for his daughter while he worked. …
The Hague Adoption Convention (HAC) vs. United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
View PostKorean Adopted People to Norway Demand Justice and Truth
View PostAdoption Documents Forgery: Korean Social Services
In the Danish adoption papers, I was an orphan found in Busan. In 2016, after I requested adoption documents from Korea, the Korean Social Service Society (KSS) sent me an email saying they regretted falsifying the information that I was an orphan, and they said that I was born, raised, and made by someone. “I finally found my mother after …
Why Did You Adopt Me to a Pedophile? In An Unfamiliar Land, as The Only Asian…
View PostMore Than 300 Korean Adoptees Demand the Truth From Holt International About Their Adoption
View PostBBC Sounds: Adoptees from South Korea Call for an Investigation
View PostRev. Dr. Janine Myung Ja, Ph.D.
View PostTribute to Roelie Post
Author Janine reviews Roelie Post’s book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of the Romanian ‘Orphans’. Roelie Post‘s book, Romania for Export Only: the Untold Story of the Romanian ‘Orphans’, exposes the formation of an unjust legalized system called inter-country adoption, in which children are taken from their families and sent to foreigners. By reading the book, I was given …
Did you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans?
View PostFor the Creation of a Committee Investigating the Illicit Intercountry Adoptions Since ’70s
Collective for the Recognition of Illicit Adoptions in France launched this petition addressed to the National Assembly and to 3 others (National Assembly representatives, French Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs). CHANGE.ORG Petition is Here. Many of us have been asking, for a few years now, for an investigation into the illegal practices of intercountry adoption in France. As of today, …
We Do Not Appreciate You Taking Our Children!
View PostThe Netherlands will immediately suspend adoptions from abroad.
The Netherlands will immediately suspend adoptions from abroad. The outgoing Minister for Legal Protection Dekker announced this in response to the report of the Joustra Committee on the Dutch adoption culture and the role of the government. Ongoing adoption procedures will still be completed, after an additional test. The State will also no longer rely on prescription in adoptees’ proceedings. …
Private Adoption Industry Reaps Profits
A web of consultants, facilitators, and other middlemen have made private adoption a lucrative business. But the profit motives can leave mothers feeling coerced, and, nationwide, a lack of regulation creates opportunities for exploitation. In partnership with TIME, this Newsy report shows the murky world of the private adoption industry. This story was reported and published by Newsy.
A Brief History of Castlepollard Mother & Baby Home
The third floor also had a few ‘private’ rooms where well-off families who could afford to pay handed over the huge sum of £100 for privacy and a speedy exit. The Order of the Sacred Heart nuns arrived in Ireland in 1922 within months of the formation of the Irish Free state after the civil war. The Order was invited …
Chile’s stolen children: American woman finds her Chilean mother 36 years after birth
By Rafael Romo Senior Latin American Affairs Editor (CNN) Growing up in Minneapolis, Alisa Clare Cohen constantly wondered whether her birth parents in Chile really abandoned her. Nearly four decades passed before she learned the truth. “The story that I was told was that my (biological) family had essentially never meant to keep me,” Cohen said. Her now-deceased adopted parents, Sheila and Steve …
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 …
Why Did You Adopt Me to a Pedophile? In An Unfamiliar Land, as The Only Asian…
View PostMore Than 300 Korean Adoptees Demand the Truth From Holt International About Their Adoption
View PostEuropean Adoption Consultants Guilty of Defrauding the U.S.
Former Executive Director of International Adoption Agency Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Adoption Scheme The former executive director of an Ohio-based international adoption agency pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Ohio to defrauding the U.S. and Polish authorities in connection with the adoption of a Polish child. WASHINGTON (7News) — Margaret Cole, the former owner of European Adoption Consultants, pled …
BBC Sounds: Adoptees from South Korea Call for an Investigation
View PostSouth Korea remains one of the largest exporters of overseas adoptees in the world
View PostFBI Begins Investigation into Girls Home.
View PostRicki’s Promise.
A Film by Changfu Chang “After Mengting was born, we did everything we could to hide her and to keep her. We never intended to abandon her. When we went outside, we would put our child in a big grocery bag, with one person holding both of her hands and the other holding both her feet, so no one would …
Bringing Children Adopted By Foreigners And Indian Parents Together, One Reunion At A Time
View PostMissing Children in Korea
View PostWhen 6700 children were adopted from India to Sweden, irregularities may have occurred
Swedish authorities failed to ensure compliance with rules. Now an independent investigation and government grants are required for adopted people who want to search for their roots. Due to recent reporting in international and Swedish media such as Sweden’s Television concerning unethical adoptions from Chile and Sri Lanka to Sweden, we set aside from India the question: What is happening now? Over the …
India/Denmark Adoption Trafficking
A lot went wrong in the adoptions of the 70s and 80s. At the time, adoptive children from both India, Bangladesh, and China were brought to the Netherlands without the knowledge of their parents. The children’s papers were also tampered with. It has, therefore, become very complicated for them to find their biological family. But what was the role and …
Danish International Adoption Has Been Reported to the Police
Danish International Adoption has been reported to the police after the information came to light that several children may have been trafficked to Denmark. Journalist Camilla Boje Hertz and Jessica Skovmose The adoption center DIA (Danish International Adoption) has been reported to the police for possibly being instrumental in illegal adoptions between 1979 and 1995. This happens after a TV …
Adoption Documents Forgery: Korean Social Services
In the Danish adoption papers, I was an orphan found in Busan. In 2016, after I requested adoption documents from Korea, the Korean Social Service Society (KSS) sent me an email saying they regretted falsifying the information that I was an orphan, and they said that I was born, raised, and made by someone. “I finally found my mother after …
Afghan couple sues U.S. Marine for allegedly abducting baby
Yamiche Alcindor, Washington Week An Afghan couple are suing a U.S. Marine and his wife for allegedly abducting their baby. The Marine asked a federal judge to dismiss the case, insisting that he and his wife are the child’s legal parents. On Washington Week Recommends, Yamiche Alcindor talks to Juliet Linderman, who has been reporting on this story, to learn …
Why Did You Adopt Me to a Pedophile? In An Unfamiliar Land, as The Only Asian…
View PostBBC Sounds: Adoptees from South Korea Call for an Investigation
View PostAre Korean Adoptees Labeled as Orphans? Investigation needed.
View PostS. Korean adoptees allege they are wrongfully adopted.
View PostRead This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption
Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …
The Cruel History of Overseas Adoptions
South Korea’s Cruel Adoption Industry Adopted to France at the age of 11, Kim believed that her parents abandoned her. It wasn’t until she stumbled upon her adoption papers earlier this year that she began to doubt what she had believed all her life. She remembers her parents clearly, but the name on her adoption papers is none other than …
Concerns on Harry Holt and His 1954 Overseas Adoption Program
My past is based on a long list of experiences with intercountry adoption, which started when I was adopted overseas to the United States in 1972 with my twin. I have been researching the issue since my first trip back to my birth country in 2004. From examining the memoirs of the pioneers who set up the intercountry child welfare …
Madonna Investigated for Human Trafficking of Her Adopted Children
View PostThe Dark Side of International Adoption and Barbie’s Past Involvement
Barbieland’s Controversial Partnership with International Adoption In a bid to expand its global reach, toy manufacturing giant Mattel (HK) joined forces with the Chinese-owned White Swan Hotel back in the day when international adoption was at its height. The hotel was also known as the “White Stork Inn” or the “Baby Selling Hotel.” This partnership was aimed at welcoming adoptive …
Why Did You Adopt Me to a Pedophile? In An Unfamiliar Land, as The Only Asian…
View PostS. Korean adoptees allege they are wrongfully adopted.
View PostRead This Eye-Opening Book on Adoption
Thinking about adopting? Read how adoption evolved in this eye-opening book called Adoption What You Should Know (now on audio). It covers the history of how adoption started, including Seoul, South Korea, and uncovers secrets that agencies don’t want you to know about. How do you save $75,000? Don’t get duped. Gain a bird’s-eye view of the hidden side of …
