China’s Illicit Adoption Market Goes Online

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by Cai Yiwen Children traded through chat groups and forums could be trafficked, warns lawyer. With China’s often long and cumbersome adoption process, many prospective parents are turning to internet chat groups to buy children instead, The Beijing News reported Tuesday. On messaging app QQ, the more than 470 members of the “Home to Fulfill Your Dream” group look for either …

Roelie Post, from the Foundation Against Child Trafficking

Fusion: AdoptionTrafficking

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Roelie Post interviewed here: The Traffickers, The Dark Side of Adoption, available on Netflix here. FUSION PRESENTS: The Trafficker Click on the link below for the episode preview: The Dark Side of Adoption Inside the underworld of international adoption Who’s really profiting from international adoptions? Is this adoption agency selling children? In many developing countries the concept of adoption is a …

When I Met my Twin and Biological Family in Korea after Separation since Birth

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My Adoption Story This video shows when I learned of my adoption story. I am a Korean adoptee who was separated since birth from my family. I grew up in the U.S. and met my twin and biological family for the first time last May of 2015. Now, after a year, I am living in Korea in hopes of reuniting …

Adoptionland: Child Trafficking in Haiti

Child Trafficking and Adoption in Haiti

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Earthquake in Haiti: The Pornography of Poverty and the Politics of Development by JULIAN VIGO UNICEF estimates that approximately 300,000 Haitian children are restavèk (child slaves) and that 3,000 children are trafficked out of Haiti each year.  However, these figures are widely considered conservative both because there are no serious studies to date on this subject and because the very …

The Trouble with International Adoption

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by Goorish Wibneh Imagine one of the millions of children orphaned by AIDS finding a loving home with a well-to-do Seattle couple who desperately want to become parents. But the real picture isn’t always so pretty. Corruption and fraud mean waiting orphans may never get the chance to have a second family. Meanwhile, other children whose parents are still alive, but too poor to care for …