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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 …
SBS Interview about Adoptee Deportations – Monte Haines
View PostPresident Barack Obama
January 10, 2017 President Barack Obama Attn: Neil Eggleston, Senior White House Counsel 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20500 We ask that you please pardon Sandy Musser. Sandy lost a child to adoption in 1954 during a time called the Baby Scoop Era. This era started after the end of World War II. A network of special interest groups—mainly …
BBC interviews Against Child Trafficking
Arun Dohle a contributor of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, “I Can Never Forget: AFTERNOON. HOLIDAY. SUN IS SHINING. Normal people would spend this time with their family, but for those of us involved with Against Child Trafficking, this is not an option. Instead, we keep working and fighting (against all odds) for adoptee and children’s rights. But none of …
Being called ‘anti-adoption’?
Back home, I started to question the way babies were obtained for adoption. During the process of researching and writing, I tried to remain as neutral as possible and gave the facilitators the benefit of the doubt (even giving them my trust) over the course of full decade of reflection and study. I truly believed that they were saints and …
Baby Trafficking
When my sister and I were sent to the United States from South Korea in 1972, the pioneering adoption agency gave our adoptive parents a document called “Certificate of Orphanhood”. This piece of paper gave the impression that we were orphans. Because this document implied that we had no Korean family, we wore whole new identities without question and never …
Are Korean Adoptees Labeled as Orphans? Investigation needed.
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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 …
Adoption Scandal in Indonesia – Baby Trade Closed
View PostChina Adoption Trafficking: Mother Reunites with Missing Son After 32-year Search
“So if you ever have any doubts about your birth, that you were kidnapped or adopted, then you should come forward to look for your birth parents. If you don’t, then it’s very difficult for your parents to find you.” Chinese Mother, searching for her son missing for 32 years. 10:50 7:41 “To me, my biggest regret has been losing …
FBI 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 …
Korean Adopted People to Norway Demand Justice and Truth
View PostDanish 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 …
Adoption Lobby
“One has to understand why these programs are made. This is done by an adoption agency that first needs money, and this kind of emotions obviously brings a lot of money. With this money, one can open children’s homes. First, with donations homes will be built. Then children will be lured into them away from their families. At the end …
Child Trafficking Through International Adoption Continues Despite Regulations
Global adoption is a big business, fraught with loose regulations and profit incentives that have made it a target for kidnappers, human traffickers, and pedophiles. Despite regulations on international adoptions, and with some countries even banning all foreign adoptions, the problem has continued. Kidnappers continue to fuel the trade, and adoption agencies continue to skirt the laws. “What I stumbled …
I never consented for my son to be adopted
I appeal for your good heart with understanding and compassion for the pain and anguish I feel as a father who has been unjustly kept away from my son. I hope that you can find it in your heart to empathize and agree to my request. Went to Malaysia after residing in Singapore from 2010 till 2015. Had a relationship …
The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans
To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz “The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans”, on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz “The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans”, on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 Interview with Dorrit Saietz Dorrit Saietz is a …
European 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
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View PostAdoption Scandal in Indonesia – Baby Trade Closed
View PostChina Adoption Trafficking: Mother Reunites with Missing Son After 32-year Search
“So if you ever have any doubts about your birth, that you were kidnapped or adopted, then you should come forward to look for your birth parents. If you don’t, then it’s very difficult for your parents to find you.” Chinese Mother, searching for her son missing for 32 years. 10:50 7:41 “To me, my biggest regret has been losing …
Briefing You Should Listen to About Forced Adoption
A briefing is given to New Zealand Social Services and Community Committee on matters relating to forced adoption, July 1st, 2020 “Dear friends in our worldwide adoption community. I’m in New Zealand. I gave evidence before a government committee briefing on matters relating to forced adoptions. The committee paid close attention. They asked good questions after. They seemed receptive. If …
Long Lost Family (UK) Season 7, Episode 6
View PostIndia/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 …
3-Year-Old adopted child from India Missing Since Saturday
FBI Evidence Team Now at Home of Missing 3-Year-Old The search is continuing for the child, who was reportedly last seen by her father, 37-year-old Wesley Mathews, at about 3 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Sunningdale in Richardson. An Amber Alert was discontinued Monday afternoon, because there has been no new information in the case, but authorities said …
Canada to Pay Millions in Indigenous Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions
By IAN AUSTEN OTTAWA — For decades, Canadian social workers forcibly separated indigenous children from their families, putting them up for adoption by nonnative families in Canada and around the world. On Friday, the Canadian government took a step to make amends for that adoption program, which began in the 1960s and lasted till the 1980s, by agreeing to pay …
American To Stand Trial Over Guatemalan Adoptions – NPR News
Guatemala was once one of the world’s most popular adoption destinations, but stopped the practice after mass corruption was exposed. An American woman is set to stand trial over related charges. To hear the NPR news visit this site. RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Guatemala was once one of the most popular countries for foreign adoption, just after China. Ten years ago …
New Adoptionland Youtube Channel
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View PostHistory Forced Adoptions, Monica Lennon
Marion McMillan finally getting her experiences heard at the Parliament. Her story deserves to be acknowledged and her personal account can be read in detail in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists. Marion McMillan’s (Scotland) chapter is titled, “On Behalf of Scottish Mothers.” page 119, Part 3: “Abandoned”
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.
Kara Bos’ Journey to Find her Mother
The reunion after such a long time, only lasted 8 minutes. “So he left and I just broke down because that was really my last chance of knowing anything…because I worked so hard to get to this meeting with him.” Kara Bos. After 6 months, her father passed away at the age of 87 years old. “Although it is only …
Adopted Child, Deported Adult. Wazulu’s Story
Wazulu was born in India and adopted as a child. He was taken to the USA at the age of 12 to live with American parents and for the next twenty years he studied and lived as an American. A brilliant musician, Wazulu was gaining recognition as a performer and producer of an original style of Indian influenced Hip Hop …
Priyangika will stop all foreign adoptions
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 …
New 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 …
FBI 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 PostWhy Did You Adopt Me to a Pedophile? In An Unfamiliar Land, as The Only Asian…
View PostHolt International President and CEO Phil Littleton Resigns from Adoption Agency
View PostBBC Sounds: Adoptees from South Korea Call for an Investigation
View PostPriyangika will stop all foreign adoptions
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 …
Adoption Scandal in Indonesia – Baby Trade Closed
View PostChina Adoption Trafficking: Mother Reunites with Missing Son After 32-year Search
“So if you ever have any doubts about your birth, that you were kidnapped or adopted, then you should come forward to look for your birth parents. If you don’t, then it’s very difficult for your parents to find you.” Chinese Mother, searching for her son missing for 32 years. 10:50 7:41 “To me, my biggest regret has been losing …
