BBC HARD Talk Interview with Paul Redmond: The Adoption Machine

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It was front-page news around the world when a mass grave was discovered at a Mother and Baby Home in Ireland. The remains of almost 800 babies were found. But research by Paul Redmond showed that this was only “the tip of the iceberg”. He collected evidence of high death rates at homes for illegitimate children across Ireland and also …

Scores of Children Illegally Adopted

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Dr. Irene Creedon took in babies from vulnerable mothers at her surgery She allowed adoptive parents to register children as their own Operations uncovered by mother-of-two when she began tracing her birth A well-known family doctor arranged scores of illicit and illegal adoptions across the nation over at least two decades, the Irish Mail on Sunday can reveal. Dr. Irene …

Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

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“We are the parents of the missing children. …I am a parent of a missing child. I don’t know where she is. I’ve had a reunion. I’ve seen her for five minutes in 32 years. I don’t know where she is.” Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists

Invisible Woman

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I definitely recommend Grace Harstad’s Invisible Woman: A Birth Mother’s Memoir for the public and particularly for young women—if we as a global society want to protect mothers from adoption loss. As someone who has researched adoption internationally, historically, from the front door through to the back, nothing seems to surprise me anymore when it comes to adoption. However, Grace’s …

Fly Away Children Response

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CHRISTIAN WORLD ADOPTION (CWA) “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. “I would have never brought home a child that had a mom, never,”  she …