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“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …
Adopted from Ethiopia, Hana found dead in her back yard, bruises on her body where she was beaten and her adoptive parents starved her to death. Adoption Advocates International (AAI) based in Seattle is closed now. Many of the adoptions from AAI the Ethiopian children are homeless. Unfortunately when their is no supervision or regulations after the children are placed, …
Instances of newborns disappearing in Serbian hospitals have been reported for decades. But only in recent times has the government come under pressure to take action. Hundreds of parents say they were told by doctors that their babies died shortly after birth. But they were never allowed to see the body. An association representing the parents says between 6,000 and …
J’ai été vole à mes parents (which in French means “I was stolen from my parents”) is a true story of Céline Giraud, a French woman of Peruvian origins, written by herself with the collaboration of a Émilie Trevert, a French journalist. (1) Céline Giraud was adopted from Peru by French parents at the age of 16 days old in …
“In 2002, I finally found my family. I learned the exact circumstances of my adoption: I had been kidnapped with forty children from an institution that is called a “nursery” here, where poor families can leave their children, for the time to get out of a distress situation, and take them back.” Part 1: Interview with Tinan Leroy held in 2010 …
