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Phil Littleton, the president and CEO of Holt International Children’s Services, has resigned, according to an announcement by the Eugene-based child adoption agency. The nonprofit’s board of directors have appointed Dan Smith, the organization’s chief financial officer, to serve as interim CEO effective Saturday, according to a news release. Littleton did not return requests for comment Friday. In a phone …
Peter Regel Møller is the front figure for 283 adoptees from South Korea, who are now demanding that the truth about their first year of life come to light. Adoption: Imagine that one day, you are told that you are two years younger than what is written on your birth certificate. That you weren’t born in the city, you thought. …
Did Adoption Agencies label 200,000 Korean infants and children as orphans in order to process them overseas for international adoption? Hundreds of Korean adoptees are requesting an investigation into their adoptions. Danish Korean adoptees, along with global demand, seek the truth about their adoptions. “We have reason to suspect that a lot of the information about us, at least the …
Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The dormitory is called Ae Ran Won, and it is one of a dozen homes for unmarried women in South Korea. Ae Ran Won can hold fifty pregnant women in its ten rooms, but when I was there in November, it had only thirty-five.
Read about both Monte Haines and Adam Crapser’s adoption stories: Want to know the true-life stories of deported adoptees from Seoul, South Korea? If you watched Justin Chon’s film titled Blue Bayou, you should know the background history of not only deported adoptees, like Adam Crapser and Monte Haines but the typical childhood narratives of adoptees like them. his collection, compiled …
