Category: transnational adoption
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Aljazeera: Child of Their Time: The emotional cost of international adoptions
A Dutch filmmaker, whose brother was adopted from Indonesia in the 1970s, shares his family’s painful story. Filmmaker Huibert van Wijk explores the complexities of international adoption through the lens of his own family’s experiences. His adopted brother, Tim, and their father, Lex, have been estranged for years due to tensions surrounding Tim’s adoption. While…
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Providence: International Adoption Trends Epitomize America’s Declining Soft Power
by Thea Dunlevie Link to story. merican adoptions of foreign-born children have declined by 94% since 2004 – bad news for American soft power. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, America championed international adoption. The Pax Americana expanded opportunities for Americans to adopt children abroad, particularly from countries that had experienced destabilizing shocks like the Vietnam War…
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The Korea Times: Adoptees voice deep concerns regarding state takeover of adoption system
By Jung Min-ho Link to story.
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Washington Post: The U.S. intercountry adoption system has failed. It’s time for a complete overhaul.
By Ryan Hanlon Link to story OPINION: In releasing its latest annual report to Congress on intercountry adoptions, the State Department claimed last month on X that intercountry adoption remains “viable, ethical, and transparent.” A year earlier, it praised its team for working “tirelessly” on behalf of families. Yet the numbers and the outcomes for children tell a different…
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Korea Times: Korea improves adoption transparency, access, accountability
By Ma Kyung-hee Link to story. As of July 19, under the Special Act on Domestic Adoption and the Act on International Adoption, the Korean government has assumed full responsibility for managing both domestic and international adoptions, marking a transition from a private agency-led model to a public system. These reforms aim to streamline adoption…
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The Korea Herald: South Korea moves to end ‘baby exports,’ state to take full responsibility
By Choi Jeong-yoon From story: Link to article.
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The Korea Times: Adoptees raise alarm over NCRC’s handling of records
By Antonia Giordano Link to story. Despite renewed attention and government pledges to support adoptee rights, the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC), now tasked with centralizing decades of adoption records, is facing scrutiny over mismanagement and technical errors. Hopes were initially high when the NCRC took over from private agencies that…
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The Conversation: ‘Next time bring back my daughter’: Barbara Demick reunited a Chinese family with the stolen ‘missing twin’ adopted in the US
By Kathryn Shine Link to story.
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Big Issue: Vietnamese adoptees are searching for their families before it’s too late
By Isabella Mcrae Link to story. Marie Maubouche has always felt a close connection to her Vietnamese roots, and she wants to learn more. Image: Supplied Marie Maubouche was born in Saigon in October 1971 and was left on the steps of an orphanage when she was two days old. It was during the Vietnam…
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Havana Times: El Salvador children demand the right to know their origins after separation from war
By Edgardo Ayaya Link to story After a DNA test confirmed the family connection, New York resident Sarah Kanfer traveled to El Salvador in November 2024 to reunite with her mother, Eusebia Portillo. The reunion is one of several cases in which children were separated from their parents during the Salvadoran civil war and fraudulently…
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