Lebanon’s disappeared children: The darker side of international adoption

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By, Changiz M. Varzi Nearly 10,000 adoptees have been given to foreign parents since the 1960s but many face huge obstacles discovering their origins. BEIRUT – It was a life-changing day in September 1963, when a young American woman entered Beirut’s St Vincent de Paul orphanage and was shown to a row of children in their beds. Back in the US, …