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 …

The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans

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 To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz “The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans”, on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 To the Congress Lecture by Dorrit Saietz “The adoption business – snatched from parents, sold as orphans”, on Saturday, 4 March 2018, from 9:00 to 10:00 Interview with Dorrit Saietz Dorrit Saietz is a …

Most of the children still have parents

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An orphanage using the name of an Australian Bali bombing victim has been accused of sourcing children with living parents from a remote island to help solicit donations from western tourists. Former workers at Jodie O’Shea House, one of Bali’s biggest institutions for children, made a detailed complaint about its activities to Save the Children, which passed it on to Indonesian authorities. The …

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Adopted Chinese children search for biological parents in bid to understand past

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“I am 200 percent sure that she is my daughter… Now I’m calling all of my relatives,” a father from East China’s Jiangxi Province wrote on October 19 after spending 24 years searching for his second daughter, who was sent to a foster home and adopted in the US in 1993. The message was sent to Lan, a US resident …

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What is Adoption Trafficking?

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A mother who is a monk must borrow money. The lender tells her of a Christian home that would provide and train her two children for nothing. So the mother can work more to pay back the loan faster. But her children will not see her again for many years. They have been sold to an adoption agency, to America. …