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The High Court has stopped two Swedish couples and a Danish couple from taking three Kenyan children out of the country. This was after it was discovered that the minors were not abandoned orphans but had families. Consequently, the court ordered the adoption proceedings stopped until an application filed by their birth families determined. Issuing the order on Friday, vacation …
‘Highly exceptional’ ruling allows 14-year-old who was abused by adoptive couple’s relatives to revert to legal status of birth family A 14-year-old girl has won a “highly exceptional” legal ruling that revokes an adoption order made more than 10 years ago. The teenager was also given the go-ahead by a high court judge in London to change her surname to …
The ‘Speak up for South Korea’s waiting Children’ youtube video was made by an adoption agency’s CEO and a Korean Pastor in hopes of encouraging American’s support of gaining more children for international adoption. This is a response video to them. Agencies should not be allowed to label children as “orphans” unless the agency can provide proof with the death …
The trauma of separation from their babies faced by 19th century unmarried mothers is still raw in responses to the Foundling Museum’s forthcoming show. Donations to fund an exhibition on unmarried women who were forced to give away their babies – dubbed “fallen women” in the 19th century – have been accompanied by poignant comments that show how deep the …
When we revealed the agony of mothers made to give up their babies, the response from readers was huge – and heartbreaking. Susan Smith, 61, Lancaster The stigma and devastation still haunt me, at the age of 61. I was 13 when I got pregnant in 1967, and my boyfriend was 14. Neither of us had any idea what we’d …
