Adoption – Given or Taken
Four Corners ABC 2-3-12 “People think your a bad person because you gave your baby away, they need to know we didn’t give our babies away. We weren’t given our babies in the first place…..can’t give away something you didn’t get.” Mother of adoption loss Follow us: @adoptiontraffic / Adoption Trafficking – FB For more news on industry practices, go to Adoptionland.org To …
‘Poverty Porn’ and ‘Pity Charity’ The Dark Underbelly Of a Cambodia Orphanage
South-East Asia correspondent for Fairfax Media, Lindsay Murdoch Phnom Penh: She looks dirty, disheveled, and miserable and is labeled a sex worker. Many Australians responded to a plea to save the pretty Cambodian girl called Pisey from child predators. “Teach a sex worker to sew,” declares a glossy internet advertisement for Sunrise Cambodia, an Australian charity that has raised millions of …
Inquiry into postwar adoption policies can start healing process
Hundreds of thousands of unmarried mothers were systematically and often violently separated from their babies simply because of their marital status. Many Canadians are unaware that in the immediate postwar decades, federal and provincial governments funded draconian adoption policies that harmed unmarried mothers across Canada. This is being referred to by scholars as the “adoption mandate” or the “Baby Scoop …
Aussie do-gooders ‘tearing families apart’
Phnom Penh: Gullible Australians volunteering in Cambodian orphanages are unwittingly tearing families apart, an aid organisation says. The number of orphanages in Cambodia has exploded to an estimated 600 in the past decade, despite a lack of conflict and social upheaval normally associated with such an increase. Aid groups believe the trend is driven by dodgy operators exploiting poor families and …