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The last time Fatima saw her two year-old daughter Zabeen in the flesh was in 1998 when she was playing with her four year-old brother Hussain outside a tea shop near their house in Washermanpet in Chennai. Sixteen years down the line, Zabeen now lives over 7000 kilometres away in Australia under a different name with her Australian adoptive parents. …
A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in May found that child traffickers bribed, tricked and coerced Ugandan families into giving up their children for adoption. NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Legislators in the United States are lobbying the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to give 400 adopted children exit visas, after it suspended international adoptions because of fears …
From 1924 through 1950, Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children’s Home Society, from a stately home on Poplar Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. She used it as a front for an illegal foundling home and adoption agency that placed over 5,000 newborn infants and children, from toddlers up to age 16, to sell to what she called “high type” families in …
AUGUSTA, Maine — Later this summer, Maine will become the sixth state to criminalize the transfer of adopted children from one family to another without approval from a court. LD 1342, sponsored by Democratic Rep. Craig Hickman of Winthrop, an adoptee himself, outlaws the transfer of long-term care and custody of a child younger than 18 years old without a …
