Black Market Babies?

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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.

Lid lifts on the anguish of China’s stolen generation

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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 …

Should adopted children have the right to contact their natural mother?

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HAVING BEEN BORN in a mother and baby home, I am among perhaps a few hundred members of the active adoption community. But there are also about 50,000 silent adoptees in Ireland today, mostly aged 45 and upwards. At present, all natural mothers are “protected” by the constitutional right to privacy, Many do not want it. But some need it. I …

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SBS Interview about Adoptee Deportations – Monte Haines

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Monte Haines was born in 1970 in Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa through Holt International. Contributor of The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now, Monte was born in 1970 in South Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa in 1978 through Holt International on an IR-4 visa. His …