Dark side of inter-racial adoption surfaces

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(Former) Washington State Senator Paull Shin, French digital economy minister Fleur Pellerin and French Senator Jean-Vincent Place. They all have something in common. All three are Korean adoptees who have become successes in their adopted countries. Behind the success stories of those people, however, are others who suffer emotional distress after being adopted by foreign parents. Adoptees’ rights activists say …

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Adam Crapser’s Story

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For Adam’s narrative on the adoption experience, see here: Amazon “If I could say anything to politicians, I would beg them–implore them–to please amend the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 so that those of us who were adopted as children before then but were not granted US citizenship–would finally be covered.  Please do this for my children, so they don’t …

Adam Crapser: Detained for deportation

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Adam Crapser, a Korean American adoptee who was placed in deportation proceedings at the beginning of 2015, was placed in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma Washington by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on February 8, 2016. READ Latest News here – Adam Crapser to be Deported Adam was adopted from a Korean orphanage by U.S. citizen parents at age three, …

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, …