India/Denmark Adoption Trafficking

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A lot went wrong in the adoptions of the 70s and 80s. At the time, adoptive children from both India, Bangladesh, and China were brought to the Netherlands without the knowledge of their parents. The children’s papers were also tampered with.  It has, therefore, become very complicated for them to find their biological family.  But what was the role and …

Children Stolen for Adoption from Guatemala

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https://adoptionland.org/9828/lets-talk-adoption-2/ Did you know most children who are adopted internationally are not actually orphans?

Dr. Hicks and Adoption Trafficking: Taken at Birth

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TLC’s “Taken at Birth” shares untold stories of the “Hicks Babies,” more than 200 newborn babies illegally sold or given away from the back steps of a small-town Georgia clinic run by Dr. Thomas J. Hicks during the 1950s and 1960s. The three-night special airs Wednesday, October 9 through Friday, October 11 from 9PM-11PM (ET/PT). “In the 1950s and early …

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They rescue 23 victims of trafficking in “a factory to make babies” in Nigeria

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The Nigerian Police rescued 19 pregnant women and 4 children victims of human trafficking in a “factory to make babies” in the city of Lagos, where they were forced to become pregnant and sell their newborns, said Monday police spokesman