This page includes links to investigative journalism related to transnational adoption. Some of these links will require subscriptions to access the full story. As with the other aspects of this site, this page will be an evolving project as new stories are uploaded.

From Vice News: “These Adoptees Were Brought to the US as Babies. Now Some Fear They Were Stolen” by Koh Ewe, April 27, 2022. This report delves into adoptions from Cambodia

“The Child Exchange” by Megan Twohey for Reuters, 2013. This report was a five-part series looking at the phenomenon of “rehoming” – a practice in which adoptive parents used internet discussion boards to find new parents for adopted children they had decided they no longer wanted to parent. The vast majority of re-homed children were transnational intercountry adoptees. For more information about the series, click here.

“The Lie We Love” by E.J. Graff, Foreign Policy, 2008. The full scope of the research conducted for this feature was part of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Reporting at Brandeis University (now defunct) – more information here. It is too bad the information is not archived in an easy to manage way. Graff followed up in 2014 with an article for Pacific Standard, “They Steal Babies Don’t They?”

South Korea’s Adoption Reckoning – a joint investigative project by the Associated Press and Frontline. The investigation and documentary were first published in September, 2024.

The PBS site and the AP page linked above include supplementary materials including interviews with adoptees impacted by the unethical and fraudulent practices.