African Children being sold to U.S. families — CNN report

Adoptionland NewsAdoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Excerpts, Rights 1 Comment

The Davises shared their story exclusively with CNN, saying they believe that Ugandan children like Mata are being trafficked, with American families not knowing the real stories behind their adoptions. An investigation by CNN into this alleged trafficking scheme found that children are being taken from their homes in Uganda on the promise of better schooling, placed into orphanages even …

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

Adoptionland.orgAbout The Book, About Us, Adoption, Adoption Survivor, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Excerpts, Featured, Indigenous Communities, Rights, The Americas

“We are the parents of the missing children. …I am a parent of a missing child. I don’t know where she is. I’ve had a reunion. I’ve seen her for five minutes in 32 years. I don’t know where she is.” Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

It’s Time to Reassess Adoption

Adoptionland.orgAbout Us, Adoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Featured, Indigenous Communities, Rights 1 Comment

To whom it may concern: Please consider reassessing the practice of adoption. For every family created by adoption, another family is forever torn For every baby sent overseas today, his/her identity is forever altered thereafter. Against Child Trafficking specifically, addresses child trafficking. Processing children reap the highest payouts, sometimes surpassing $60 – $70,000 per child. All other trafficking focuses on …

Fly Away Children Response

Adoptionland.orgAdoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Rights, Videos

CHRISTIAN WORLD ADOPTION (CWA) “This is Tegene, he’s a little abandoned child,”  says the presenter on Christian World Adoption’s DVD catalogue of orphans. On the other side of the world, Lisa Boe fell in love. She adopted Tegene, who one day identified his real ‘mom’ in a photograph. “I would have never brought home a child that had a mom, never,”  she …

Orphan Adoption or Child Trafficking?

Adoptionland.orgAdoption, Adoption Trafficking, Africa, Agency Complaints, Asia, Excerpts, Rights, The Americas, Videos

The Truth. Published on Jan 15, 2017 Today’s video is about a sensitive issue: orphanages and adoption. Is our Western demand for orphans fueling an international adoption industry? I discuss what I’ve learned, and alternatives that exist. https://adoptionland.org/p/6279/being-called-anti-adoption/ To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here or to read the Huffington Post article on Adoptionland, visit here.