Media Contact: Info@AdoptionHistory.org
Since a few years ago came to light that adopted children from Ethiopia were ‘harvested’ and conned from their parents, caused a stir. But adoptions from numerous other countries saves on false papers, lies and deceit. Now a new law on the way to provide secure adoptions – maybe. The affluent South Korea is considered a model country for international …
Grierson Nominees 2015: by Katrine W. Kjaer Five years ago I met Henriette and Gert through research I was doing for another project. They were facing adoption, and showed me a photo of their prospective children, Masho and Roba, together with their biological parents, whom the adoption agency had explained, were dying of AIDS. At this time I didn’t question …
By Peter F. Dodds “There is no greater sorrow on Earth than the loss of one’s native land.” International adoption is a type of adoption in which parents adopt a child who is a national of a different country. Since 1990, close to a quarter million foreign children have been brought to the United States on orphan visas for …
The Cabinet has approved “an indefinite moratorium on inter-country adoption of Kenyan children by foreigners. The decision was informed by Kenya’s current ranking by the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2014, United Nations Office on drugs and crime, citing Kenya as a source, transit and destination country in human trafficking. The move is a response to concerns about increased …
There is new adoption scandal. Kenya this time. It seems to never stop as the Western adoption agencies can operate with impunity. This also involves the newly created Danish Agency DIA, which is the agency created by the Danish government, out of a merger of Danadopt and AC Denmark. Why? Because of the Ethiopian adoption scandal. The excellent movie “Mercy …
