Rehoming: Dan Rather Reports

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“Rehoming” is an underground system that enables adoptive parents to advertise their adopted children on the internet or through informal religious or civic connections to place them with other willing families without legal safeguards or regulations. To many human rights proponents, this underground method of moving children is seen as another form of abandonment and child trafficking. Adoption: What You …

Serbia: Missing Babies

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Instances of newborns disappearing in Serbian hospitals have been reported for decades. But only in recent times has the government come under pressure to take action. Hundreds of parents say they were told by doctors that their babies died shortly after birth. But they were never allowed to see the body. An association representing the parents says between 6,000 and …

Tinan, Testimony of an Uprooted Child

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“In 2002, I finally found my family. I learned the exact circumstances of my adoption: I had been kidnapped with forty children from an institution that is called  a “nursery” here, where poor families can leave their children, for the time to get out of a distress situation, and take them back.” Part 1: Interview with Tinan Leroy held in 2010 …

Children in Nepal are Easy Victims

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Chaos after the earthquake increases the risk that children disappearing and being abused by criminal gangs. Another powerful earthquake struck today (13, May 2015) Nepal and led many to run out into the street in panic. But the chaos that reigns in the country after two major earthquakes in less than a month – and countless aftershocks – will now …