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A Stolen Twin Reunites with Her Family

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Los Angeles Times In 2002, a two-year-old girl was confiscated by Chinese officials because her family had violated the one-child policy. This past February, during Lunar New Year, she traveled from Texas, where she had been adopted, to meet her family and her twin sister.

Adopter sentenced to life in prison for the death of the 3-year-old girl he adopted from India.

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Wesley Mathews, the father of his adopted child Sherin Mathews – who was three years old when she was found dead in 2017 in Texas, was sentenced to life in prison by a jury last week, after he pled guilty to a lesser charge of injury to a child by omission.

What happens to Indian children after they are given up for adoption to overseas adopters?

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Megha Varier, The NEWS Minute Saraswati was an infant when she was abandoned by her parents in Gaya district in Bihar. She was taken in by an NGO based out of Nalanda. When she was two-and-half years old, a Kerala couple Wesley Mathews and Sini Mathews, adopted her in July 2016. Saraswati became Sherin and started living with the couple …

Access to records for adults who were adopted scuttled in the Senate

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by J.David McSwane A widely supported effort to give adults who were adopted access to their birth records — and the potential to find birth parents or their genetic health risks — was upended in the Texas Senate Wednesday. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, presiding officer of the Senate, didn’t call for a vote on House Bill 984 before a midnight …