We want all adopters from Chile to be reviewed

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Social workers in Chile have pressed mothers to leave their children. Sometimes they have been told that the children were born dead. This is what we call more than deficiencies in the review, this is human trafficking, writes Maria Diemar and Tommy Leite from the group chileadoption.se. OPINION In Chile, judge Mario Carroza investigates about 500 cases of what he suspects are …

Child Trafficking Through International Adoption Continues Despite Regulations

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Global adoption is a big business, fraught with loose regulations and profit incentives that have made it a target for kidnappers, human traffickers, and pedophiles. Despite regulations on international adoptions, and with some countries even banning all foreign adoptions, the problem has continued. Kidnappers continue to fuel the trade, and adoption agencies continue to skirt the laws. “What I stumbled …

Hold the adoption agencies and authorities responsible for unethical adoptions

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The adoption scandal in Chile has made Swedish media pay attention to the more complex aspects of adoption and finally, people are being made aware of the fact that many adoptions were carried through unethically. It ranges from discrepancies in the documents, lack of information and coercion of first parents to downright kidnapping and trafficking. We demand of the Swedish …

I never consented for my son to be adopted

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I appeal for your good heart with understanding and compassion for the pain and anguish I feel as a father who has been unjustly kept away from my son. I hope that you can find it in your heart to empathize and agree to my request. Went to Malaysia after residing in Singapore from 2010 till 2015. Had a relationship …

The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans

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 To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz “The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans”, on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz “The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans”, on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 Interview with Dorrit Saietz Dorrit Saietz is a …