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November 27, 2015 | Ben Fox | AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — As Mariette Williams waited for her flight from South Florida to Haiti, she paced the departure lounge, folding and re-folding her ticket and clutching the handle of a bag sagging with gifts. She was excited but terrified: For the first time in nearly 30 years, she was about to …
December 18, 1990 | ALEX EMERY | ASSOCIATED PRESS LIMA, Peru — Phillip Thomas Shaffer, 4 months old, wriggled in his new mother’s arms, an appealing grin on his face. He is unaware of the human drama unfolding around him as his mother, Terry, battles court officials and the bureaucracy to adopt him. Foreigners, most of them from the United States, are coming …
“In 2002, I finally found my family. I learned the exact circumstances of my adoption: I had been kidnapped with forty children from an institution that is called a “nursery” here, where poor families can leave their children, for the time to get out of a distress situation, and take them back.” Part 1: Interview with Tinan Leroy held in 2010 …
Between 2002 and 2005, parents in Samoa were tricked by an American adoption agency into giving up their children. They were falsely told that signing their children up for this “program”, their children could benefit from an American education; they would receive photographs and regular communication; and the children would return at age eighteen. The adoption agency, Focus on Children (FOC), then …
This article describes the effects that the Hague Adoption Convention had on adoptions from Romania. The aim of the Hague Convention was to guarantee that intercountry adoption would take place in the interest of the child, with respect for his/her fundamental rights, and to prevent the abduction, sale of or trafficking in children. Romania was one of the first countries …