Shocker: Over 20 children go missing in Delhi every day

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New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Over 20 children go missing every day in the national capital and most of them become victims of organised crimes like prostitution, pornography and organ trade, according to a child rights group. Child Rights and You (CRY) said that Delhi Police informed it in reply to a Right to Information query that “a whopping 7,928 …

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

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Compiled by the Vance Twins,  Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists, is an indispensable contribution to adoption literature. The essays, poems and letters in this compilation reflect the thoughts, the feelings, the souls of those who inhabit AdoptionLand — a place of truth and acceptance for the casualties of the demand for children. “I feel like a stolen heart from a corpse, …

Lebanon’s disappeared children: The darker side of international adoption

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By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …

Couples devastated by adoption scam

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Eleven Irish couples caught up in an alleged adoption scam in Mexico have been left devastated by the affair, they said tonight. While the lawyer at the centre of the baby trafficking plot remains on the run, the families who returned home last weekend have insisted they believed they were acting legally. Offices belonging to the Lopez Y Lopez firm …

Parents sue after adopting Chinese girl, 8, with spina bifida only to find she is also deaf, blind, has hepatitis C, epilepsy, and scoliosis

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The front featured photo:  Robert Meeker with his adopted daughter, Carys. Robert and Amy Meeker, from Dallas, Texas, agreed to adopt Chinese girl Parents told Carys, eight, had spinda bifida but agreed to take her anyway But when she arrived at their home, couple found a host of other issues They say girl is blind, deaf, has hepatitis C, severe …