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With news that Vietnam is once again going to allow their children to be adopted out of country, reading a collection of essays by people who were uprooted and transplanted into new cultures is ice water on all those squishy ideals of what intercountry (or international adoption) does. The writers whose essays come together in Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists …
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) – Some 70 women have come forward in less than 24 hours to tell St. Louis city officials they fear their babies were taken from them at birth and then given away. Jaqueline Butler called our newsroom to tell us her story about the birth of her daughter, “If she’s alive I would love to be united …
By Katy Migiro and Tom Esslemont KAMPALA/LONDON, May 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The first time Jaja, a Ugandan woman, saw her one-year-old granddaughter, she was in the arms of an American man who she was told had “bought” the child. The toddler was sitting with the man and his wife, eating biscuits and drinking juice, as they sought legal …
Kampala (AFP) – Uganda MPs have raised fresh concerns that hundreds of children have left the country through “dubious circumstances” as a result of foreigners working with local lawyers to exploit a loophole in the law, allowing them to be adopted. Last September, an official report said a boom in Uganda’s “international adoption industry” had led to some children who …
Santiago, Chile (CNN) It was a hug kept on hold for more than 41 years. The hug of a mother and son whose lives were abruptly separated four decades ago. Nelly Reyes had been waiting for hours in the international arrivals lounge at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, holding a hand-made red poster board sign that said “Lovingly waiting …