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 …
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 …
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 …
By Warren Hoge, Special To the New York Times 8-16-81 The authorities have uncovered a multimillion-dollar international ring in which hundreds of poor Andean children were kidnapped or bought from their mothers and sold under forged birth certificates and adoption papers to childless couples from the United States and Europe. A Bogota lawyer has been jailed on charges involving the smuggling …
Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory is called Ae Ran Won, and it is one of a dozen homes for unmarried women in South Korea. Ae Ran Won can hold fifty pregnant women in its ten rooms, but when I was there in November, it had only thirty-five.
