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A couple who adopted an 8-year-old girl from China knew she had special needs — but they claim they were duped by a Morningside Heights adoption agency about just how dire her health situation really was. Robert and Amy Meeker were aware that little Kaitlyn had spina bifida — a birth defect of the spinal cord — when they began …
From the 1960s to the ’80s, some 20,000 Aboriginal children were removed from their homes and placed with non-Native families. Now adults, many want redress for the loss of cultural identity. By Anne Bokma Sally Susan Mathias was four years old in 1967 when child welfare services removed her and her six-year-old sister, Doris Lynn, from their home, part of …
WRDW-TV News 12 uncovered an alleged black market for babies dating back decades: Part 1:4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lX6rCcJVI Part 2:4 Part 3:4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAKM5fNQV8 Part 4:4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LDamdoJjN4 https://adoptionland.org/p/6471/manufactured-orphans/ For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here.
TIANXI, China: The man from family planning regularly prowled around the mountaintop village, looking for nappies on clotheslines and listening for the cry of a hungry newborn. One day in spring 2004, he presented himself at Yang Shuiying’s doorstep and commanded: ”Bring out the baby.” Yang wept and argued, but, alone with her four-month-old daughter, she was in no position …
Children offered for adoption are being represented as photogenic child models with attractive personalities in a controversial internet advertising campaign run by a NSW government-funded charity. The marketing campaign by Barnardos has infuriated an adult adoptees support group which claims it is akin to an online sale of children and misrepresents the character and looks of potential adoptees. The web …
