{"id":57462,"date":"2023-08-11T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/aug\/11\/the-children-who-say-they-were-wrongly-taken-for-adoption"},"modified":"2023-08-11T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:00:29","slug":"my-mother-spent-her-life-trying-to-find-me-the-children-who-say-they-were-wrongly-taken-for-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57462","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My mother spent her life trying to find me\u2019: the children who say they were wrongly taken for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Bibi Hasenaar felt rejected because she was adopted aged four. Then she saw a photo that described her as missing \u2013 and began to uncover an astonishing dark history<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0192<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bibi Hasenaar has had two lives. One began in November 1976, when she was<strong> <\/strong>about<strong> <\/strong>four, arriving in the Netherlands to meet her adoptive parents. \u201cI remember it vividly. There\u2019s a photo of us at the airport with other children arriving from Bangladesh \u2013 it was published in a Dutch paper.\u201d Her older brother Babu was there, too.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2023\/aug\/11\/the-children-who-say-they-were-wrongly-taken-for-adoption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, Bibi Hasenaar felt rejected because she was adopted aged four. Then she saw a photo that described her as missing \u2013 and began to uncover an astonishing dark history\u0192Bibi Hasenaar has had two lives. One began in November 1976, when she was ab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,327,245,725,78,79,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-bangladesh","category-children","category-human-trafficking","category-life-and-style","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57471,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57462\/revisions\/57471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}