Christian World Adoption (CWA)

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2009 special report on Ethiopian child adoption agencies and how they exploit Ethiopian children and families. “This is Tegene, he’s a little abandoned child,”  says the presenter on Christian World Adoption’s DVD catalogue of orphans. On the other side of the world, Lisa Boe fell in love. She adopted Tegene, who one day identified his real ‘mom’ in a photograph. …

‘Child trafficking with help of State’

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Victim of illegal adoption affair wants to go to court By Esther Wemmers Amsterdam – A victim of the major illegal adoption affair of the eighties wants to sue the Dutch State for co-responsibility of child trafficking and allowing couples to change the identity of their illegally adopted children.  Childless Dutch couples avoided the long waiting lists for adoption by …

Adoption: Is it about the Money?

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Child ‘protection’ is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. A recent CDC study, The Economic Burden of Child Maltreatment in the United States and Implications for Prevention, found the total lifetime estimated financial costs associated with just one year of cases associated with child protection services is approximately $124 billion. [1] …

Chinese Adoptions and Rehoming

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Internet ‘Rehoming’: The Dark Side of International Adoptions They call it “adopting from disruption,” and you can find forums and mailing lists devoted to the topic across the Internet—everywhere from Facebook to until recently, Yahoo Groups. “My husband and I have never actually visited another country to adopt a child. Yet, our family includes Russian, Ethiopian, and Mexican born children,” …