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By JOHN LELAND IN almost any adoption, the new parents accept that their good fortune arises out of the hardship of the child’s first parents. The equation is usually tempered by the thought that the birth parents either are no longer alive or chose to give the child a better life than they could provide. On Aug. 5, this newspaper published a …
Worldview producer Alexandra Salomon gives us a special look into the world of international adoption, and some of its origins. (Also, we talk to Vali Nasr about a settlement framework for Syria.) Radio interview about the history of international adoption starts in 14:56 of the program. (Photo: Associated Press/Gosia Wozniacka) Original link visit here. Many believe that withholding U.S. Citizenship from …
(Former) Washington State Senator Paull Shin, French digital economy minister Fleur Pellerin and French Senator Jean-Vincent Place. They all have something in common. All three are Korean adoptees who have become successes in their adopted countries. Behind the success stories of those people, however, are others who suffer emotional distress after being adopted by foreign parents. Adoptees’ rights activists say …
“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …
Three year old Madoc (aka Hyunsu) was adopted from South Korea under the new laws by Brian and Jennifer O’Callaghan in October 2013. He had a diagnosis of hydrocephalus. He died less than 4 months after his arrival in his adoptive home with a skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, eye hemorrhaging, trauma to his scrotum, and other evidence of …
