GLOBAL ADOPTION NEWS
What Are Adopted People Saying Today About Adoption?
Foreign adoptions ‘make children commodities’, NGO challenges definition of human trafficking
Last year German based adoption-activist Arun Dohle was handed a file of a young Australian woman who wanted to find her birth family in India. Years of searching had proved fruitless up until then. Mr Dohle sent the brief to his Indian colleague Anjali Pawar. With scant details, just the name of the village and the birth date, Ms Pawar …
Adopted girl wins right to return to biological family after abuse
‘Highly exceptional’ ruling allows 14-year-old who was abused by adoptive couple’s relatives to revert to legal status of birth family A 14-year-old girl has won a “highly exceptional” legal ruling that revokes an adoption order made more than 10 years ago. The teenager was also given the go-ahead by a high court judge in London to change her surname to …
Cruelty That Left Me With a Lifetime of Guilt
When we revealed the agony of mothers made to give up their babies, the response from readers was huge – and heartbreaking. Susan Smith, 61, Lancaster The stigma and devastation still haunt me, at the age of 61. I was 13 when I got pregnant in 1967, and my boyfriend was 14. Neither of us had any idea what we’d …
Indian family desperately want to see their stolen daughter again, maybe for the last time. Stolen from India and adopted to Australia.
Fatima and Salya are the parents of four children. In 1998, one of them, then two-year-old was kidnapped then sold to a corrupt adoption agency that forged records to make it appear she had been abandoned. She was adopted by a family in Queensland, Australia. Indian police uncovered the scam in 2005 and arrested the child-stealers who provided details of …
