Adoption – Given or Taken

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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 …

Tears for Views: Reality TV for Loved Ones Lost

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by Owen Churchill and Li You ‘Waiting for Me’ helps desperate families track down missing relatives, provided they are willing to relive trauma on stage. Song Xianzhong is talking through the photos of his grandchildren that hang above the bed. “This one is my granddaughter. Everyone says she looked like a boy when she was little,” he laughs. Then the …

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Holt’s Front Door

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Why is this a big deal? Because the front door is typically reserved for their customers—paying people applying for a child—checkbook in hand. Adopted people are expected to enter through the back, asking questions in a hushed tone, so as not to make a scene. For years (decades, really), there’s been talk in certain adoption circles that we need to …

East African Nations To Ban Foreigners From Adopting African Children

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By: Divta Asiimwe AFRICANGLOBE – Members of the East African Legislative Assembly, who are currently sitting in Kampala, want EAC partner states to abolish international child adoption to stop the likelihood of children falling into the hands of traffickers. EALA on August 19 passed a general-purpose report on the rights of the child, which wants EAC partner states — Uganda, …

One Man’s Search For Home

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