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Internet ‘Rehoming’: The Dark Side of International Adoptions They call it “adopting from disruption,” and you can find forums and mailing lists devoted to the topic across the Internet—everywhere from Facebook to until recently, Yahoo Groups. “My husband and I have never actually visited another country to adopt a child. Yet, our family includes Russian, Ethiopian, and Mexican born children,” …
“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 …
Adopted from Ethiopia, Hana found dead in her back yard, bruises on her body where she was beaten and her adoptive parents starved her to death. Adoption Advocates International (AAI) based in Seattle is closed now. Many of the adoptions from AAI the Ethiopian children are homeless. Unfortunately when their is no supervision or regulations after the children are placed, …
Between 2002 and 2005, parents in Samoa were tricked by an American adoption agency into giving up their children. They were falsely told that signing their children up for this “program”, their children could benefit from an American education; they would receive photographs and regular communication; and the children would return at age eighteen. The adoption agency, Focus on Children (FOC), then …
Three year old Madoc (aka Hyunsu) was adopted from South Korea under the new laws by Brian and Jennifer O’Callaghan in October 2013. He had a diagnosis of hydrocephalus. He died less than 4 months after his arrival in his adoptive home with a skull fracture, bleeding in the brain, eye hemorrhaging, trauma to his scrotum, and other evidence of …
