Orphan Adoption or Child Trafficking?

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The Truth. Published on Jan 15, 2017 Today’s video is about a sensitive issue: orphanages and adoption. Is our Western demand for orphans fueling an international adoption industry? I discuss what I’ve learned, and alternatives that exist. https://adoptionland.org/p/6279/being-called-anti-adoption/ To get a copy of Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists visit here or to read the Huffington Post article on Adoptionland, visit here.

Fraud and Heartbreak Can Plague Adoptions From Africa

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Government officials say sometimes parents are told their children will get an education abroad, but the youths are being adopted through shady agencies. KAMPALA, Uganda—When impoverished mother Nakiwala Hasifa signed legal guardianship papers to let a Christian pair from Mississippi have custody of her five-year-old son, Stuart Bukenya, in 2009, she thought she would hear from him regularly and that …

The Worldview of International Adoption

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Worldview producer Alexandra Salomon gives us a special look into the world of international adoption, and some of its origins. (Also, we talk to Vali Nasr about a settlement framework for Syria.)  Radio interview about the history of international adoption starts in 14:56 of the program. (Photo: Associated Press/Gosia Wozniacka)   Original link visit here. Many believe that withholding U.S. Citizenship from …

Flurry of Marshallese Adoptions in Arkansas Raises Red Flags

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A surge in private adoptions of U.S.-born Marshallese infants in northwest Arkansas led award-winning journalist Kathryn Joyce, an expert on international adoption and child trafficking, to travel to the Ozarks to investigate. We talk with Joyce about her findings, as well as with Melisa Laelan, a northwest Arkansas Marshallese community leader who is monitoring the situation. To listen to interview …

‘The Child Catchers’: Evangelicals and the Fake-Orphan Racket

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In her shocking new book, Kathryn Joyce uncovers how conservative Christians have come to dominate the international adoption circuit—and its dark underbelly. In 2009, a van from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, carrying seven young children and babies, was stopped as it drove outside the rural, central Ethiopian town of Shashemene. The children in the van were wards of Better Future Adoption …