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Related: About this forumInternational Adoption: In Whose Best Interest?
Children are NOT commodities to be bought or traded. Adoption is SUPPOSED to be about helping a child, not providing a "cure" for infertility.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)I am a victim of human trafficking, but I am an American born and sold.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)...and their original families
me b zola
(19,053 posts)...to shame DUers for their lack of support for this progressive cause...
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)My question is on the Korean adoptees are they from the South or North? I know many Koreans who were adopted and lived in the United States that were perfectly happy. How they were adopted I don't know, I think it would be too personal of a question to ask. I think it is a stretch to claim all Korean adoptions are a scam, which is what it appears the video is claiming. As for adoptees from other countries, I am less knowledgeable about them. I am somewhat familiar with the story of the Aborigines as I saw Rabbit Proof Fence a few years ago.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)But then again it is possible some could be North Korean refugees. It probably wouldn't be a very high number though.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)to more people's attention.
Unfortunately, we have a long way to go in this country. I hope I live long enough to see the media start addressing some of these issues. But I realize that I might not (and I'm only in my late 30s).
Dan Rather's special report was a good start. At least it acknowledged that the Baby Scoop Era happened. Now we need to expose the on-going modern-day abuses. But it isn't easy when no one speaking out has won an academy award, or a grammy, or anything like that.