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Uprooting children from a foreign culture to start a new life in Denmark can be fraught with difficulty. Adoptees and experts reflect on the history of transnational adoption and offer their views on how to ease tensions and create a more inclusive society for children brought up in Denmark with complicated cultural ties. By Natasha Jessen-Petersen When you adopt, you …
By, Angel Tesorero/Dubai The Philippine consulate officials have caught a Filipina expat using a fake Philippine passport to bring her “adopted baby back home,” Consul Ferdinand Flores revealed to reporters on Wednesday night. According to Flores, “the husband of the Filipina expat bought a bogus passport in the Philippines for P75,000 (Dh5,900) to take to the Philippines a two-year-old baby …
By, Madison Wade, WBIR A Knox County mother wants answers after her adoptive daughter from Guatemala was denied a driver’s license permit twice. 16-year-old Emily Williams is eager to get behind the wheel in East Tennessee. She’s been studying hard and practicing often to hopefully get her drivers permit soon. “I’ll be like a normal teenager, who will be able …
By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …
SYRACUSE, NY – Forty-eight boxes on wooden pallets take up a space 15 yards long and six yards wide in the basement of lawyer Robert Lahm’s office building in Syracuse. Inside them are about 1,000 files carrying information about Central New Yorkers who were adopted over the past 20 years – their medical histories, their adoptive parents’ finances, and in …
