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Monte Haines was born in 1970 in Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa through Holt International. Contributor of The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now, Monte was born in 1970 in South Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa in 1978 through Holt International on an IR-4 visa. His …
PETALING JAYA: Babies are now available for sale through Facebook. Checks by the Sun showed more than 600,000 hits through Google which displayed both open and closed Facebook pages with details such as infants’ age, gender, and health. Potential adopters are provided with details of the mother’s pregnancy stage, and, based on a case-by-case basis, her monetary needs until post-delivery, …
Annyeonghaseyo! 안녕하세요! Omma, 엄마! My name is Meejin Richart. 제 이름은 미진 리샤에요. This name given to me by my adoptive parents but the name I use when I’m in Korea is Choi Mee Jin. 미진 리샤라는 이름은 제 양부모님이 저에게 지어주신 이름이에요. 하지만, 한국에서 지낼때의 제이름은 최미진이에요. I know I come from you. 제가 엄마에게서 태어난걸 저는 알고 있어요. I …
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Unscrupulous fraudsters persuade vulnerable families to hand over their children – who then disappear into a flourishing ‘orphanage industry’. Fiona Broom reports on efforts to stop the child-trafficking trade. In Nepal’s remote mountain villages, an insidious force has for two decades been destroying young lives and tearing families apart. The devastation visited on these villages is no natural disaster, but one …