Korean Pastor helps adoptees find biological parents through DNA testing

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By Kim Jae-won Pastor Kim Do-hyun is helping adoptees find their biological parents through DNA testing. He said that the tests will change the way adoptees search for their origins, which has so far relied on poorly kept documents from adoption agencies. “We call the DNA test the game changer because we expect this to make a difference in adoptees …

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 …

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 …

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SBS Interview about Adoptee Deportations – Monte Haines

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Monte Haines was born in 1970 in Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa through Holt International. Contributor of The “Unknown” Culture Club: Korean Adoptees, Then and Now, Monte was born in 1970 in South Korea and was sent for adoption to a family in Iowa in 1978 through Holt International on an IR-4 visa. His …

Aussie do-gooders ‘tearing families apart’

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Phnom Penh: Gullible Australians volunteering in Cambodian orphanages are unwittingly tearing families apart, an aid organisation says. The number of orphanages in Cambodia has exploded to an estimated 600 in the past decade, despite a lack of conflict and social upheaval normally associated with such an increase. Aid groups believe the trend is driven by dodgy operators exploiting poor families and …