‘I was looking for my mother but found my twin instead’

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By Shaili Bhatt BBC News Gujarati “The first time I saw my brother, I just froze. “I couldn’t say anything. We sat down on the sofa in his house. There was silence. Then I started to cry. “The first words he said to me were ‘don’t cry’. Then he took my hand. Everyone who was there cried as well. It …

Korean adoptee died alone searching for his roots.

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The child who went on the road to adoption 37 years ago, temporarily returned home in his middle age, anxiously searched for his biological parents and at the end turned to ashes. He who wandered the whole country searching for his blood relatives, he could not feel the affection of his blood relatives and died alone, and even in death, …

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What is Adoption Trafficking?

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A mother who is a monk must borrow money. The lender tells her of a Christian home that would provide and train her two children for nothing. So the mother can work more to pay back the loan faster. But her children will not see her again for many years. They have been sold to an adoption agency, to America. …

The ‘orphan’ I adopted from Uganda already had a family – CNN

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“CNN investigation has uncovered children purposely being orphaned, Mothers thinking they are temporarily giving up their children to be educated, instead, they’re sold to adoptive families who think they are taking an orphan in need.” Anderson Cooper For original CNN investigational report, visit here. Adam and I thoroughly researched at each step of the process in the hopes of ensuring …

Death of toddler adopted from India prompts calls to end intercountry adoptions — Reuters

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Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The death in Texas of a three-year-old girl adopted from India a year ago has prompted renewed calls for an end to international adoptions, which campaigners say put vulnerable children at risk of abuse. The girl’s adoptive father, Wesley Mathews, was charged on Monday with injury to a child, a first-degree felony that …