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FBI Begins Investigation into Girls Home.

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A Mother Finds Her Lost Child After a 40-years Search: ‘She Was Always There.’ “They would bring the girls to Hattiesburg, they would be pregnant and then they would move the girls out to another state to stay in a foster home, and then the adoption in another jurisdiction, so there was no way to track them down.” Dan Wise, …

Missing Children in Korea

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Chae Pilseok is looking for his daughter. Adopted Korean. “Korea was very poor at the time. There was no way to find the child if you lost your child. What I did was report it to the police station. I went to all the orphanages to find my daughter. I cried a lot because I felt sorry for the starving …

Adoption: What You Should Know

This book is a mind-blowing book on the adoption industry.

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This short book deconstructs the industry and acknowledges the families left behind. Has the global push for adoption exploited mothers worldwide? Review: It has been over a century since the practice of adoption was introduced. While it seems that it has been a highly beneficial practice that has helped children grow in better environments and live better lives, there is …

Cover Art by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjoblom

Monte Haines: SBS Interview about Korean Adoptee Deportations

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Contributor of The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now, Monte was born in 1970 in South Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa in 1978 through Holt International on an IR-4 visa. His adoption was never finalized, and then Monte was again relinquished. He bounced around between several foster homes before his parents legally …

BLUE BAYOU - Official Trailer - Only in Theaters September 17 Written by Justin Chon

BLUE BAYOU Produced and Directed by Justin Chon

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Read about both Monte Haines and Adam Crapser’s adoption stories: Want to know the true-life stories of deported adoptees from Seoul, South Korea? If you watched Justin Chon’s film titled Blue Bayou, you should know the background history of not only deported adoptees, like Adam Crapser and Monte Haines but the typical childhood narratives of adoptees like them. his collection, compiled …