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The Crisis of Adoption Trafficking in Ethiopia

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My husband and I began our second Ethiopian adoption back in 2008. We had brought home our beautiful son in 2006. We wanted children so badly and fell in love with the country, the people, and of course our son. We knew our daughter was also ‘waiting’ for us there. Our story causes us heartbreak not only because of what happened to our child and her family but how selfish and naïve we were in hindsight, we genuinely didn’t know—we hadn’t found the forums.

Hold the adoption agencies and authorities responsible for unethical adoptions

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The adoption scandal in Chile has made Swedish media pay attention to the more complex aspects of adoption and finally, people are being made aware of the fact that many adoptions were carried through unethically. It ranges from discrepancies in the documents, lack of information and coercion of first parents to downright kidnapping and trafficking. We demand of the Swedish …