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To whom it may concern: Please consider reassessing the practice of adoption. For every family created by adoption, another family is forever torn For every baby sent overseas today, his/her identity is forever altered thereafter. Against Child Trafficking specifically, addresses child trafficking. Processing children reap the highest payouts, sometimes surpassing $60 – $70,000 per child. All other trafficking focuses on …
I definitely recommend Grace Harstad’s Invisible Woman: A Birth Mother’s Memoir for the public and particularly for young women—if we as a global society want to protect mothers from adoption loss. As someone who has researched adoption internationally, historically, from the front door through to the back, nothing seems to surprise me anymore when it comes to adoption. However, Grace’s …
An Excerpt from “Inside Story of an Adoption Scandal” by Arun Dohle gives reason for the need for searches and reunions: “In historical terms, intercountry adoptions from India have had a short run. Within thirty years of its inception, murky scandals of child kidnapping, falsifying paperwork, outright trading, and other tragic stories have ridden these intercountry adoptions. Worldwide, adoption experts widely believed …
The documentary Manufactured Orphans will air on Jan. 31 at 8pm Singapore time. “Nearly 90% of the estimated 143 million children in orphanages worldwide are not orphans at all. They are systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. The adoption industry is a huge market driven by money where orphans are ‘manufactured’. With the help of human …
My Adoption Story This video shows when I learned of my adoption story. I am a Korean adoptee who was separated since birth from my family. I grew up in the U.S. and met my twin and biological family for the first time last May of 2015. Now, after a year, I am living in Korea in hopes of reuniting …
