Chile’s stolen children: American woman finds her Chilean mother 36 years after birth

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By Rafael Romo Senior Latin American Affairs Editor (CNN) Growing up in Minneapolis, Alisa Clare Cohen constantly wondered whether her birth parents in Chile really abandoned her. Nearly four decades passed before she learned the truth. “The story that I was told was that my (biological) family had essentially never meant to keep me,” Cohen said. Her now-deceased adopted parents, Sheila and Steve …

‘I was looking for my mother but found my twin instead’

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By Shaili Bhatt BBC News Gujarati “The first time I saw my brother, I just froze. “I couldn’t say anything. We sat down on the sofa in his house. There was silence. Then I started to cry. “The first words he said to me were ‘don’t cry’. Then he took my hand. Everyone who was there cried as well. It …

The Netherlands should facilitate DNA research in adoptive countries: ‘Take responsibility now’

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In recent times, the discussion about the role of the Dutch government in adoption cases has flared up, partly because some adoptees want to hold the state liable for damage suffered. Adoption of foreign children started in the seventies and was organized for a long time by private foundations with good contacts in countries such as Colombia, Brazil, India, Sri …

We want all adopters from Chile to be reviewed

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Social workers in Chile have pressed mothers to leave their children. Sometimes they have been told that the children were born dead. This is what we call more than deficiencies in the review, this is human trafficking, writes Maria Diemar and Tommy Leite from the group chileadoption.se. OPINION In Chile, judge Mario Carroza investigates about 500 cases of what he suspects are …

Child Trafficking Through International Adoption Continues Despite Regulations

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Global adoption is a big business, fraught with loose regulations and profit incentives that have made it a target for kidnappers, human traffickers, and pedophiles. Despite regulations on international adoptions, and with some countries even banning all foreign adoptions, the problem has continued. Kidnappers continue to fuel the trade, and adoption agencies continue to skirt the laws. “What I stumbled …