カテゴリー: Adoption
For couples in the US mid-way through the adoption process, news of an end to international adoptions has been crushing Americans Lauren and Harrison Smith met in China as students, and discussed their desire to adopt from the country early on in their…
US families have adopted 82,674 children from China, the most of any country, with diplomats seeking clarity for hundreds of families in the process of international adoptionThe Chinese government is ending its international adoption program, and the U…
A Dutch group that reunites children with their birth parents in Bangladesh is fighting to stop all international adoptionRead more: Bangladesh launches investigation into children ‘wrongly’ adopted overseasIt was not long into a research trip to Bangl…
Police start to interview witnesses following Guardian reports on adoptions to the Netherlands nearly 50 years agoRead more: ‘I was told I could visit. Then she went missing’: the Bangladeshi mothers who say their children were adopted without consentP…
Thousands of children born to victims of rape during Bangladesh’s war of independence in 1971 were adopted by foreign families. Now, many want to discover their rootsThe Bangladeshi children who say they were wrongly taken for adoptionJane Radika was s…
For years, Bibi Hasenaar felt rejected because she was adopted aged four. Then she saw a photo that described her as missing – and began to uncover an astonishing dark historyƒBibi Hasenaar has had two lives. One began in November 1976, when she was ab…
I was adopted as a baby and was hoping to answer the question of where I’m from. Instead, the trip reminded me of my deep love for my familyOur three-week trip to India was coming to an end and I still hadn’t found an answer to the question that had os…
Adoptees sent to Europe and the US say they were wrongly removed from their families as government in Seoul actively promoted adoption South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission will investigate the cases of dozens of South Korean adoptees in Eu…
Home Office accused of leaving mothers and traumatised children stranded for months while priority is given to Ukraine refugeesBritish couples who travelled to Pakistan to adopt children have been left stranded after the Home Office told them to expect…
Wang Chen-wei and Chen Chun-ju sign papers after ruling allows Chen to register as parent alongside WangA married same-sex couple have become the first in Taiwan to legally adopt a child neither of them are related to, after they challenged local laws …
7 April 1975: Flight organised by the Daily Mail sees 105 orphaned children evacuated from SaigonThe mercy airlift of 105 Vietnamese orphans landed at Heathrow Airport-London early today among growing doubts about the wisdom of future operations of a s…