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TLC’s “Taken at Birth” shares untold stories of the “Hicks Babies,” more than 200 newborn babies illegally sold or given away from the back steps of a small-town Georgia clinic run by Dr. Thomas J. Hicks during the 1950s and 1960s. The three-night special airs Wednesday, October 9 through Friday, October 11 from 9PM-11PM (ET/PT). “In the 1950s and early …
How demand from US families seeking to adopt babies from abroad has paved the way for exploitation and fraud. The only place Florence and Jennifer see their children now is in photos. Five years ago, they sent them to stay with their sister Mariam. But when they returned to collect them their children had disappeared. Mariam claimed she had put …
Melissa Konomos had always felt a longing to connect with her parents and to understand why she had been placed for adoption. She spent seven years searching for her mother until she received the call that they had found her mother and that she wanted to meet. This is the story of Melissa’s journey and the challenges that come with …
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about adoption. Books by Janine Myung Ja. Although adoption may appear legal or follow certain bureaucracy, this does not make the adoption ethical according to many parents-of-loss, and long-lost families within the local and global community. Adoption agencies tend to blame the victims to keep the attention off of their own unethical activities. Also, when …
