Word: adoptionism
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"Some people talk of taking a child from his culture," says Patricia Maynard, a Canadian mother of three adopted children, two of them from Korea. "There is no culture or pride in orphanages, only a brute form of survival." Those who agree argue that international adoption creates small safety valves...
There is another fundamental bond at work: love. "We don't give a child to a family; we give a family to a child," says Mercedes Rosario de Martinez, founder of Colombia's Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Children. "This is not a business; it's total devotion to...
The Wadduwa baby farm was shut down, but the international traffic in children for adoption remains a big business. Every year, unscrupulous baby brokers in Asia, Latin America and now Eastern Europe hand over hundreds of children to North American and West European parents willing to pay large sums for...
Last April, CBS's 60 Minutes secretly filmed baby brokers in Romania negotiating with parents for the sale of their children to Americans. "The word got out here in the States that kids could be easily had in Romania, as long as you brought enough money," says a senior U.S...
Sometimes the question of parental consent is especially murky. Severino Hernandez of Guatemala was five years old in 1989 when he was adopted by Paul David Kutz of Rockwell City, Iowa. Severino's grandparents, with whom he had lived since birth, say they never gave permission for the change of...