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Americans adopt thousands of children each year. And as the nation has become increasingly diverse, and with the growth of international adoption in recent decades, many of those children don’t look like their adoptive parents. That intersection of race and adoption has prompted many people to submit their six words to The Race Card Project, including this submission from a …
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,” …
Presenting themselves as an advocacy group for children, the Joint Council on International Children’s Services (JCICS) is nothing less than the voice of the adoption industry. In view of transparency, Against Child Trafficking hereby make this audio, as well as the full transcript, public: A letter from a REAL Ethiopian Mother: Ethiopia, Stop Adoption Trafficking! Urgent and Extremely Important, Please …
“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, …
