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How does it feel for a child, who already has a family, to be adopted by strangers never to go back home? Here’s the harrowing reality behind the practices of some international adoption agencies. Journee Bradshaw was already 13 and came from a large, middle-class Ethiopian family when she arrived in the US. She thought she was going on a …
Victim of illegal adoption affair wants to go to court By Esther Wemmers Amsterdam – A victim of the major illegal adoption affair of the eighties wants to sue the Dutch State for co-responsibility of child trafficking and allowing couples to change the identity of their illegally adopted children. Childless Dutch couples avoided the long waiting lists for adoption by …
No parent should ever have their child stolen to meet the intercountry-adoption market demand. Through our Family Reunification Program, you can help bring together parents with their taken children. In most cases, the children are adults by the time they have learned the truth about their origin. Gift of Hope supports the most vulnerable families targeted by adoption traffickers. Your …
Many children in Uganda are taken to Europe and the United States of America for adoption every year by guardians who pay local law firms and agencies between four to nine million shillings. The law firms and agencies have consequently turned adoption into a profitable business. Many of the Ugandan parents do not understand everything in the documents they sign to …
Child ‘protection’ is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. A recent CDC study, The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention, found the total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of cases associated with child protection services is approximately $124 billion. [1] …
