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2009 special report on Ethiopian child adoption agencies and how they exploit Ethiopian children and families. “This is Tegene, he’s a little abandoned child,” says the presenter on Christian World Adoption’s DVD catalogue of orphans. On the other side of the world, Lisa Boe fell in love. She adopted Tegene, who one day identified his real ‘mom’ in a photograph. …
How does it feel for a child, who already has a family, to be adopted by strangers never to go back home? Here’s the harrowing reality behind the practices of some international adoption agencies. Journee Bradshaw was already 13 and came from a large, middle-class Ethiopian family when she arrived in the US. She thought she was going on a …
Many children in Uganda are taken to Europe and the United States of America for adoption every year by guardians who pay local law firms and agencies between four to nine million shillings. The law firms and agencies have consequently turned adoption into a profitable business. Many of the Ugandan parents do not understand everything in the documents they sign to …
Zoe’s Ark Zoe’s Ark was a French NGO dedicated to helping orphaned children affected by armed conflict or natural disaster and launched in response to the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. By 2007 the focus shifted to Darfur. In October 2007, Chadian authorities nabbed six Zoe’s Ark workers for attempting to evacuate 103 children to France. The workers claimed they were rescuing …
Internet ‘Rehoming’: The Dark Side of International Adoptions They call it “adopting from disruption,” and you can find forums and mailing lists devoted to the topic across the Internet—everywhere from Facebook to until recently, Yahoo Groups. “My husband and I have never actually visited another country to adopt a child. Yet, our family includes Russian, Ethiopian, and Mexican born children,” …