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Despite Progress, Forced-Adoption Practices Persist Throughout the United States
From RH Reality Check: This year has been a good year so far for an international community of mothers seeking redress for millions of forced adoptions that took place in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. In February, Australian legislators announced a plan to apologize for the coercive practices that unnecessarily separated thousands of families during [...]
Guatemala: US refuses to return snatched girl
From the Huffington Post: A Guatemalan official says the U.S. government has said it won’t return a girl adopted after being snatched from her Guatemalan mother in 2006, because the two countries had not signed the Hague Abduction Convention at the time. Guatemala’s Foreign Relations Ministry quotes the U.S. State Department as saying the two [...]
Sierra Leone: The Stolen Makeni Children
From Slate: …last month the commission released its findings and concluded that the “so-called adoptions” were fraudulent. In the commission’s words, the biological families “cannot be said to have genuinely consented” to the adoptions, as they did not understand the concept of giving up their children forever; had never signed any agreement to relinquish their [...]
Adoption Privacy Rules Hamper Obtaining A Florida ID
From FCN (NBC): 21 year old Jessie Walker said she’s persona non grata. “I’ve never had a driver license or state ID. I’ve never been able to obtain one,” she said. She said her many attempts to get a state ID have all been rejected. “(I’ve tried) North Carolina, Raleigh, Fayetteville, Raiford, Charlotte. Florida I’ve [...]
Utah woman, adopted from India, faces likely deportation after losing appeal
From The Salt Lake Tribune: Kairi Shepherd was an orphan living in India when a Utah woman adopted her in 1982 — a seemingly good turn of luck for the 3-month-old, which included her obtaining legal permanent resident status in the United States. But when she was 8, her adoptive mother died of cancer. When [...]
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