Intercountry adoptee, Patrick Noordoven, has successfully been granted some justice for his illegal adoption!

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Intercountry adoptee, Patrick Noordoven, has successfully been granted some justice for his illegal adoption! Patrick Noordoven is an inspiration for his persistence to fight for his right to identity and break new ground in an area that until now, had remained impossible for many intercountry adoptees! This outcome is historical and paves the way for other intercountry adoptees! Visit here …

Real Parents Don’t Celebrate Adoption

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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about adoption.  Books by Janine Myung Ja. Although adoption may appear legal or follow certain bureaucracy, this does not make the adoption ethical according to many parents-of-loss, and long-lost families within the local and global community. Adoption agencies tend to blame the victims to keep the attention off of their own unethical activities. Also, when …

Adoption Lobby

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“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 …

Indigenous Children Forcibly Removed from their Mothers and Placed into Adoption

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“FORGET YOUR SON”: BRAZIL IS FORCIBLY TAKING INDIGENOUS CHILDREN AND PUTTING THEM UP FOR ADOPTION Élida smiled when I asked for an interview, but she was hesitant to allow her youngest child to leave her lap as we recorded. As a researcher, I had prepared to attend the sixth annual Kuñangue Aty, a large gathering of women from the Kaiowá …

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Closed Adoptions: A Form of Violence

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“The era of closed adoption is not behind us yet, not by a long shot, however that urgently needs to change.” A team of scholars says the legal practice of closed adoption raised “disconnected” people and is a form of violence. The scholars are part of a three-year project entitled Whangai and the adoption of Maori: healing the past, transforming …