Objections to Closed Adoption; Ethical, Moral, Legal and Practical.

Paul RedmondAdoption, Adoption Trafficking, Rights

Objections to closed adoption; ethical, moral, legal and practical (Note: This piece was originally written in July 2013 and sent to a Citizens Convention examining the Irish Constitution and making recommendations for changes and additions. Many of the ethical and moral objections to closed adoption are common throughout the world and a few are legal issues related to international documents …

Operation Babylift

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Cath Turner is a reporter for Al Jazeera news channel. Cath also happens to be a victim of the “Operation Babylift” that was organized by the US Government during the Vietnam war, flying-out thousands of babies during the conflict. Cath has been a subject of an award-winning documentary that investigates her life story of searching and meeting her biological mother …

Couple ‘forced to give triplets up for adoption as teenagers’ try to find sons 43 years on

Adoptionland NewsAdoption Trafficking, Agency Complaints, Excerpts

A couple has launched a heartfelt appeal on social media in a bid to try and find the triplet sons they were forced to give up for adoption 43-years-ago. Cynthia and Brian Bush gave up their three sons in 1972 after Cynthia fell pregnant as a teenager, but after going on to get married and raise three more children the …

Searching for Missing Pieces of a Painful Past

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A millionaire’s son was adopted in the U.S., unknown to his mother. He wants answers. November 2004 | Nora Zamichow Mee Yeon Lee clutched her 4-year-old son’s pudgy hand as she led the boy into the lobby of his father’s office building. In her other hand, she held a small bag with his clothes. Two men in dark suits waited. One, …

Guatemalan Kidnapping / American Adoption

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Karen Abigail Monahan is ten years old and lives with her mom and dad, Jennifer and Timothy Monahan, in Liberty, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. She is likely in the fifth grade and undoubtedly knows that she was adopted from Guatemala. Someday soon, this little girl will sit at a computer and type her own name, or that of …