Family of Madonna’s adopted daughter, Mercy, says they NEVER wanted to give her up

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Madonna may have finally gotten over her rift with son Rocco, but it looks like there’s a storm brewing in regards to her adopted Malawian daughter Mercy, who recently turned 10. Agatha Molande, the best friend of Mercy’s biological mother, Mwandida Chekechiwa, a teenager who died just eight days after giving birth, is coming forward to say that Mercy’s biological …

Chinese baby trafficking leaves farmers forlorn

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Children taken under guise of one-child policy and sent to be adopted abroad By Anthony Germain, CBC News. Forty-seven year old Yang Li Bing puffs on a cigarette as he shuffles through photos of a daughter he hasn’t seen in seven years. “After she was taken in 2004, I could hardly sleep and I asked my wife if we could have …

Lid lifts on the anguish of China’s stolen generation

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TIANXI, China: The man from family planning regularly prowled around the mountaintop village, looking for nappies on clotheslines and listening for the cry of a hungry newborn. One day in spring 2004, he presented himself at Yang Shuiying’s doorstep and commanded: ”Bring out the baby.” Yang wept and argued, but, alone with her four-month-old daughter, she was in no position …

Should adopted children have the right to contact their natural mother?

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HAVING BEEN BORN in a mother and baby home, I am among perhaps a few hundred members of the active adoption community. But there are also about 50,000 silent adoptees in Ireland today, mostly aged 45 and upwards. At present, all natural mothers are “protected” by the constitutional right to privacy, Many do not want it. But some need it. I …

Crocodile Smiles and Con Tricks

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Unscrupulous fraudsters persuade vulnerable families to hand over their children – who then disappear into a flourishing ‘orphanage industry’. Fiona Broom reports on efforts to stop the child-trafficking trade. In Nepal’s remote mountain villages, an insidious force has for two decades been destroying young lives and tearing families apart. The devastation visited on these villages is no natural disaster, but one …