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Stolen from their mothers at birth, sold to be brought up by another. We meet Juani and Paloma, two Spanish women caught up in Spain’s scandal of stolen babies. They’re among many struggling to come to terms with crimes done to them and their biological parents decades ago. Advocates say there were thousands of false adoptions, beginning during the Franco …
In a country where many families are allowed only one child, the notion that one’s son or daughter could be abducted and sold feels almost impossibly horrible. And yet, as a new documentary makes clear, it happens in China with stunning frequency. “Most foreigners don’t know this is happening at all,” says Charlie Custer, a blogger who co-produced and directed …
MOBILE, AL (WALA) – Kimberly Rossler says the most traumatizing experience of her life happened less than a month after she delivered her baby. Rossler gave birth to James Elliot Rossler in May, but three weeks later, she said Sheriff’s deputies were knocking on her door to take the baby from her. “They let me finish breastfeeding him, and I put him in …
Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2016 Will Publish March 2016 In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It’s generally assumed that this diaspora …
The Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday denied there was any truth to the suggestion that Angelina Jolie Pitt was in the process of adopting a second child from Cambodia. The rumour, which stemmed from a story published by US gossip website Radar on Monday, claimed Jolie Pitt had pledged to adopt a baby called “Shoun Allouy” – the youngest child …
