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We offer global news on adoption based on the stories of families separated by adoption. The website was initiated in 2014 in conjunction with the anthology, Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, the first book to address issues that adoption agencies were too afraid to face or trying to hide–the families left behind and individuals adopted. Who are we? We are …
DO YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT AGAINST AN ADOPTION AGENCY? Although adoption may appear legal or follow certain bureaucracy, this does not make the adoption ethical according to many parents-of-loss, and [birth] families within the local and global community. Adoption agencies tend to blame the victims to keep the attention off of their own unethical activities. Also, when entering foreign countries, …
Hi, my name is Rossella Carrara Hürlemann and I’m looking for my biological parents. I was born in Peru. Rossella was adopted 44 years ago and wants to find biological parents. She lives in Germany, has three daughters, and says that at six months she was given up for adoption to an Italian woman. She says that since she was …
Linda was 15 years old when she was forced to place her baby girl for adoption. In 2010, genealogist Pam Slaton helped Linda find her daughter, Laura. It had been 42 years since Laura was born, and Laura flew more than 2,000 miles to meet the woman who gave her life. Here, witness the emotional mother-daughter reunion that brought Oprah …
In the 1930s and ’40s, a woman named Georgia Tann, a ruthless baby thief, ran a black-market ring stealing over 5,000 children and selling them to the highest bidder. In 1991, Twin brothers James and Thomas White, opened up to Oprah about the horrific abuse and torment they suffered from the moment that Georgia Tann’s gang kidnapped them at age …
