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New Delhi, April 30: Arun Dohle took 17 years to find his biological mother. Dohle, 43, was two months old when his mother surrendered him to a Pune-based adoption agency. A couple from Germany later adopted him. Years later, when he returned to India to search for his biological mother, the agency refused to share any details. Dohle moved court. …
Purchased in Brazil and raised in France by an adoptive family, Kharla battled to trace her origins. The case of Zoé’s Ark, tried in mid-February, reminds her how French law does not care. By Kharla Livingston-Lorrenzo, documentary film-maker, February 2014. On Friday February 14 [2014], the deliberation of the case known as “Zoe’s Ark” will be released (Eric Breteau and his colleague Emilie …
Christopher Quirin, 63, was born to a single mother in Ireland in 1950, a time when such a thing was widely considered an unspeakable disgrace. Back then Quirin’s mother was sent by her parents to the now notorious Sean Ross Abbey in Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, the same mothers and babies home as Philomena Lee. Lee is the woman whose shocking …
By Kim Jae-won Pastor Kim Do-hyun is helping adoptees find their biological parents through DNA testing. He said that the tests will change the way adoptees search for their origins, which has so far relied on poorly kept documents from adoption agencies. “We call the DNA test the game changer because we expect this to make a difference in adoptees …
