Living with Dead Hearts: Chinese Missing Kids

CHINA: Illustrates Tragedy of Child Abductions

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In a country where many families are allowed only one child, the notion that one’s son or daughter could be abducted and sold feels almost impossibly horrible. And yet, as a new documentary makes clear, it happens in China with stunning frequency. “Most foreigners don’t know this is happening at all,” says Charlie Custer, a blogger who co-produced and directed …

China’s Hidden Children

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Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 | © 2016 Will Publish March 2016    In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children—mostly girls—have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States.  It’s generally assumed that this diaspora …

Goverment Denies Jolie Pitt Adoption Rumour

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The Ministry of Social Affairs yesterday denied there was any truth to the suggestion that Angelina Jolie Pitt was in the process of adopting a second child from Cambodia. The rumour, which stemmed from a story published by US gossip website Radar on Monday, claimed Jolie Pitt had pledged to adopt a baby called “Shoun Allouy” – the youngest child …

We are approaching the one year anniversary of Hyunsu’s brutal death.

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As we welcome the New Year and continue seeking justice for our baby brother Hyunsu, we also are approaching the one year anniversary of his brutal death. I have created this fundraiser page to purchase either a headstone for Hyunsu’s gravesite here in the US, or a memorial plaque to be placed in his memory in Korea, depending on what is the best possible …

Searching for Missing Pieces of a Painful Past

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A millionaire’s son was adopted in the U.S., unknown to his mother. He wants answers. November 2004 | Nora Zamichow Mee Yeon Lee clutched her 4-year-old son’s pudgy hand as she led the boy into the lobby of his father’s office building. In her other hand, she held a small bag with his clothes. Two men in dark suits waited. One, …