Saving Our Sisters from Domestic Adoption Trafficking

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Amber Geislinger speaks with Lynn Johansenn, adoption reform activist and founder of Saving Our Sisters. Saving Our Sisters is a non-profit grassroots charity saving mommies and babies from domestic adoption trafficking. Lynn is a hero, an inspiration to activists and survivors of adoption trafficking. She tells her personal story as a natural/biological mother who fell victim to the multi-billion dollar …

Houston Attorney Calls CPS an Adoption Mill More Interested in Money than Kids

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January 31, 2016 by Randy Wallace MyFoxHouston.com Excerpts: When it comes to protecting children the state agency in charge of that has financial incentives to take kids away from their parents. “For every child that’s taken into custody for at least 6 months is covering 25 peoples’ paychecks,” says veteran family law attorney Julie Ketterman. Judges, attorneys, case workers, therapists and …

In Hunan, Family Planning Turns to Plunder

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Families in a poor mountainous region have had children seized, and apparently sold, in the name of China’s one-child policy By Shangguan Jiaoming, October 2011 (Shaoyang) – On a long journey in search of his lost child, Yang Libing carries a single photograph. It’s a faded snapshot of his daughter Yang Ling, who this year turns seven years old. Family …

Legal Kidnapping

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Chris Reynolds is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. INDEPENDENCE, MO (KCTV) –A father is fighting to get his daughter back after he says she was adopted without his knowledge or permission. Chris Reynolds hasn’t seen his 3-year-old daughter, Brooke, in more than a year. He and his other children write …

Living with Dead Hearts: Chinese Missing Kids

CHINA: Illustrates Tragedy of Child Abductions

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In a country where many families are allowed only one child, the notion that one’s son or daughter could be abducted and sold feels almost impossibly horrible. And yet, as a new documentary makes clear, it happens in China with stunning frequency. “Most foreigners don’t know this is happening at all,” says Charlie Custer, a blogger who co-produced and directed …