Adoption-Related Links
International Babies for Adoption
Do you want to adopt a baby or young child? Hoping to adopt? Praying
for a baby to adopt? International adoption or intercountry adoption
is more complicated than it appears on first glance. The following
links provide insight into international adoption.
Korean Babies for
Adoption - Transracial Abductees - Adopted (abducted) persons
speak out about being purchased by unrelated people from a different
culture. The article about human baby farming (maternity homes) in
Korea is very interesting.
Opening Pandora's
Box - What is wrong with inter-country adoption? What could
be improved so that more children benefit and in better ways?
Marshall
Islands Babies for Adoption - Abduction-adoption.
Cambodian
Babies for Adoption - Adopt a baby from Cambodia?
More information about the
United States Adoption Market and Cambodian Babies from
the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights.
This is a great paper on how vulnerable parents are tricked and babies
trafficked. The methods described are not that much different from
those that have been used in United States to get babies for domestic
adoption. One interesting quote about how much the babies cost: "Interestingly,
US adopters pay far higher fees for Cambodian children than do adopters
from other countries." .
Guatemalan Babies
for Adoption - Adopt a baby from Guatemala? More abduction-adoption.
"Adoptable"
Babies and Children Stolen From Honduras - Thinking about
adopting a baby from Honduras? Mary Durran exposes the evil intricacies
of a heartbreaking racket. "Juana ... discovered that [her children]
were actually being kept in ‘fattening houses’ run by associates of
Gustavo Manzanares..." "Mauricio’s mother changed her mind
about having him adopted after she had spoken to women who had had
children adopted and who, contrary to what they had been led to believe,
had been unable to see their children since."
TSUNAMI
IMPACT:
European Parents Warned Against Adoption by Julio Godoy The
French government has ordered a six-month suspension of all adoptions
from the region. ”The better solution for the children is to be cared
for in their societies of origin,” said minister for health and family
Philippe Douste-Blazy.
Babies sold
like loaves of bread in India's Cyber city - by Peter Popham
in Delhi published in The Independent: "Desperate couples in
the West are paying thousands of pounds to adopt Indian babies that
have been sold to crooked orphanages by middlemen. These middlemen
have bought them from tribeswomen in the impoverished countryside."
"The scandal first emerged two years ago in Hyderabad
known as India's cyber city with its booming IT industry when
two orphanages were raided and their respective directors arrested.
But hopes that the trade had been stopped were dashed this week, when
100 babies were rescued by police and taken into government care.
"
Adoption
Row Roils Jakarta - Adoptive "father" abandons adopted
Indonesian boy after his wife becomes pregnant with their own baby.
Korean
Babies for Adoption Korea must stop overseas adoption Tobias
Hubinette, Korea Herald, Feb 28, 2005
" from the 1980s and even more since the 1990s, the absolute
majority of children who are nowadays sent to foreign countries are
born by young and unwed girls attending high school or college. These
young girls in their teenage of early 20s, often from a middle-class
background, are locked in secretly at maternity homes belonging to
the adoption agencies as soon as they get to know that they are pregnant.
At the maternity homes, they are persuaded to relinquish their children
to save the honor of their families and in reality to feed the adoption
agencies' need of a steady supply of children for overseas adoption.
In other words, a combination of patriarchal attitudes and economic
greed lies behind today's overseas adoption from Korea, and thus
the rights of both women and children are completely ignored.
"
"..studies show high levels of psychiatric illness, drug and
alcohol addiction, criminality and suicide among Sweden's overseas
adoptees. The most shocking finding is that the suicide rate is 500
percent higher among overseas adoptees than among ethnic Swedes."
An article about Samoan
Babies for Adoption. Do you see a trend? It is the job of
the adoption agencies to make adopters feel good about saving "orphans".
But with both inter-country adoption and domestic adoption mothers
and relatives may be told arrangements are "temporary" when
in fact their babies are gone for good, lost to adoptive baby-buyers.
Do you want to adopt a baby from another country?
When a child needs someone to care for her, it is the child's best
interests that must be considered. Being cared for by an aging white
woman in America is unlikely to be the best situation that can be
found for a child of another culture.
Many countries have stated that they don't want to sell their smallest
citizens to other countries as a commodity. They would prefer to fix
the systems so that less children become orphaned and more children
can remain in their own culture. Just selling a few (usually the most
desirable) children does not help the great majority. But it's hard
to protect children from those who have wealth and can purchase children
away from their country.
Korean babies, Guatemalan babies, Russian babies, European babies,
South American babies, Indian babies, babies from African countries,
Thailand, China or Phillipines. People say the children can adjust.
If they hate the food in United States and want to go back home -
too bad! When will prospective adopters - who claim to love a child
so much - move to where the child is so it's not the child who is
forced to make the change?
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