Imagine being told your child is dead, only to find out he is actually alive!

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With orphanages being closed, Grace Center is receiving more and more children in the full-time residential care facility, known to many as the children’s home or temporary care center. Six of our children came from one corrupt orphanage when it was closed. All of these children have different stories of how they actually came to be declared “abandoned”.  One of …

The Truth About China’s Missing Daughters

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A new book debunks the myth that Chinese parents favored sons. BY KATHRYN JOYCE June 1, 2016 In 2011, when I was researching a book on international adoption, I met a man who made the incredible claim that he had founded a benevolent child-trafficking ring in China, whisking baby girls away from near-certain infanticide to the safety of North American …

Politicians close their eyes for adoptions backing

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One country after another closed down adoption because of suspected corruption and child trafficking. Yet Danish politicians are more concerned with ensuring childless families may adopt than to scrutinize the cases where adoption has gone wrong. KRONIKEN 31 MAY. 2016 Ethiopia is now definitively closed to Danish families who want to adopt. In March soc ial and Interior Minister Karen …

A new narrative of transnational adoption

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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 …

Adopted teen denied driving permit

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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 …