Indian Adoption Era: Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

Adoptionland NewsAdoption Trafficking, Excerpts, Rights, Videos

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 …

I Was Stolen From My Parents

holtproductAdoption Trafficking, Rights

J’ai été vole à mes parents (which in French means “I was stolen from my parents”) is a true story of Céline Giraud, a French woman of Peruvian origins, written by herself with the collaboration of a Émilie Trevert, a French journalist. (1) Céline Giraud was adopted from Peru by French parents at the age of 16 days old in …

A Search for Family in Haiti Raises Questions about Adoption

holtproductAdoption Trafficking, Videos

November 27, 2015 | Ben Fox | AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Mariette Williams waited for her flight from South Florida to Haiti, she paced the departure lounge, folding and re-folding her ticket and clutching the handle of a bag sagging with gifts. She was excited but terrified: For the first time in nearly 30 years, she was about to …

Babies for Sale; In Peru, It’s a Simple Supply and Demand Situation

holtproductAdoption Trafficking

December 18, 1990 | ALEX EMERY | ASSOCIATED PRESS LIMA, Peru — Phillip Thomas Shaffer, 4 months old, wriggled in his new mother’s arms, an appealing grin on his face. He is unaware of the human drama unfolding around him as his mother, Terry, battles court officials and the bureaucracy to adopt him. Foreigners, most of them from the United States, are coming …

Tinan, Testimony of an Uprooted Child

holtproductAdoption Trafficking, Rights

“In 2002, I finally found my family. I learned the exact circumstances of my adoption: I had been kidnapped with forty children from an institution that is called  a “nursery” here, where poor families can leave their children, for the time to get out of a distress situation, and take them back.” Part 1: Interview with Tinan Leroy held in 2010 …