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For adoptive parents, questions without answers
From The New York Times: In almost any adoption, the new parents accept that their good fortune arises out of the hardship of the child’s first parents. The equation is usually tempered by the thought that the birth parents either are no longer alive or chose to give the child a better life than they [...]
Child trafficking in China raises fears for adoptive parents
From SOS Children’s Villages: Reports from government officials emerging from China are having some adoptive parents of children from that country fearing that their children may have been stolen from their birth parents and sold on the black market. Child abduction and trafficking has been making headlines in China recently, and many parents of adopted [...]
China: US Department of State Adoption Notice – Concerns About Information on the Background of Children Adopted from China – August 15, 2011
From the US Department of State: China August 15, 2011 Notice: Concerns About Information on the Background of Children Adopted from China The press has reported allegations that in 2005 local family planning officials in China, in the name of enforcing the “One Child Policy,” seized children from their birth families and sold them to [...]
How flawed is the international adoption process?
From Slate: It is impossible to know exactly how many international adoptions are similarly tainted. The underlying problem is that the developing world does not have as many young children who need families as the West has families who want a young child. Many Westerners have heard that there is a massive worldwide orphan crisis [...]
China: Families hold out hope for return of stolen babies
From the Sydney Morning Herald: Parents and grandparents have long known to grab their babies and hide whenever family-planning officials show up at the mountainous Longhui region of terraced rice and sweet potato fields. Too many infants have been snatched by officials, never to be seen again, they say. But Yuan Xinquan was caught by [...]
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