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Marine in Controversial Afghan Adoption Won't Be Fired

Though the child's fate remains in limbo

(Newser) - A US Marine whose adoption of an Afghan war orphan has spurred a yearslong legal battle and raised alarms at the highest levels of government will remain on active duty, the AP reports. A three-member panel of Marines found Tuesday that while Maj. Joshua Mast acted in a way unbecoming...

West Accused of Turning S. Korea Into Adoption Mill
West Accused
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S. Korea Into
Adoption Mill
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Sep 22, 2024 2:45 PM CDT

West Accused of Turning S. Korea Into Adoption Mill

The AP investigates the decades-long practice that brought babies to the US, elsewhere

(Newser) - Western governments eagerly approved and even pushed for the adoption of South Korean children for decades, despite evidence that adoption agencies were aggressively competing for kids, pressuring mothers, and bribing hospitals, an investigation led by the Associated Press has found. Now adults, many of those children have since discovered that...

China Makes Pandemic Adoption Ban Permanent

Nation will no longer allow foreign adoptions of its children

(Newser) - The Chinese government is no longer allowing foreign adoptions of the country's children, a spokesperson said Thursday. The only exception will be for blood relatives adopting a child or a stepchild, the Foreign Ministry rep said, per the AP . She didn't explain the decision other than to say...

Marine Accused of 'Stealing' Afghan Baby Has Custody Voided

He's been relying on the custody order to raise the child

(Newser) - A Virginia appellate court ruled Tuesday that a US Marine should never have been granted an adoption of an Afghan war orphan and voided the custody order he's relied on to raise the girl for nearly three years. The decision marked a major turning point in a bitter custody...

After WWII, US Welcomed a 'Greek Baby Trade'
After WWII, a
'Greek Baby Trade' Was Born
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Apr 28, 2024 9:01 AM CDT

After WWII, a 'Greek Baby Trade' Was Born

'Politico Magazine' looks at how 'politically motivated adoptions' found its model

(Newser) - Much has been written about the dark side of anti-communist fervor in America after World War II, but Jessica Bateman explores a little-known aspect at Politico Magazine —the ethically dubious adoption of thousands of Greek babies by American families. The phenomenon sprang up in the aftermath of the 1949...

YouTuber 'Rehomes' Adopted Son From China
YouTuber Under Fire Over
Decision on Adopted Son
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May 31, 2020 1:45 PM CDT

YouTuber Under Fire Over Decision on Adopted Son

Myka Stauffer and husband give up son they adopted with special needs

(Newser) - A popular YouTuber has revealed that she and her husband made the wrenching decision to give up the now 4-year-old boy they adopted in 2017 from China because his special needs—including autism—proved too overwhelming. And now Myka Stauffer is taking heavy criticism online, with hashtags such as cancelmykastauffer...

Youth Ranch Raided After Complaint About Nail Gun

Children allegedly 'hit, kicked ... spit on' at Montana's Ranch for Kids

(Newser) - Montana has removed 27 children from a home for troubled youth after reports of abuse, including one mentioning a nail gun shot at a child, per NBC News . "No child should have to experience what multiple sources have alleged has happened at the Ranch for Kids" in Rexford, near...

Deported After 40 Years in US, 'It's a Daily Struggle to Survive'

Adam Crapser's lawsuit highlights South Korean adoption woes

(Newser) - Adam Crapser lives in limbo, a stranger in South Korea , the country of his birth. Forcibly separated from his wife and children in America, he is isolated by language and culture, navigating alone a place he's been expelled to four decades after being sent to adoptive parents in Michigan...

Irish PM: 126 Children Were 'Robbed of Their Identity'

Leo Varadkar apologizes for 'dark chapter' in his country's history

(Newser) - Prime Minister Leo Varadkar issued an official apology Wednesday on behalf of his country for "another dark chapter" in Ireland's history. The New York Times reports at least 126 children adopted there between 1946 and 1969 were told their adoptive parents were their birth parents, complete with altered...

Madonna Applies to Adopt 2 More Kids
Madonna: No, I'm Not
Adopting More Kids
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Jan 25, 2017 11:20 AM CST

Madonna: No, I'm Not Adopting More Kids

Multiple outlets reported she was in Malawi to apply to adopt 2 more

(Newser) - Scratch that: Outlets including the BBC and the AP reported that Madonna had applied to adopt two children in Malawi, but the Material Girl has since refuted those reports. "I am in Malawi to check on the children's hospital in Blantyre and my other work with Raising Malawi,...

With Heavy Heart, She'll Soon See the Son She Gave Up

'I should have kept him even if we starved together'

(Newser) - "I have so much to tell him, especially how sorry I am," 61-year-old Kwon Pil-ju tells the New York Times . "But I am at a loss because I don't know English." In a matter of weeks, Kwon's son, 41-year-old Adam Crapser, will return to...

10-Year-Old: Change Law So I Can Be POTUS

10-year-old says foreign adoption shouldn't dash her presidential ambitions

(Newser) - Massachusetts is known for churning out its fair share of patriots, and Alena Mulhern is no exception. But when the Kingston 10-year-old first told her mom she hoped to be the president of the United States someday, Barbara Mulhern Caparell said, "Honey, unfortunately that's the only thing you...

Couple Tries to Un-Adopt Kids Who Threatened to Kill Them

They say they were misled about children's health

(Newser) - A couple in Long Island adopted two children in 2008, hearing from agencies that the Russian-born kids, supposedly siblings, were "healthy and socially well-adjusted." But that was far from the truth, the parents say, and now they want to give up the children, the New York Post reports....

How US Parents Literally Give Away Kids Online
How US Parents Literally
Give Away Kids Online
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Sep 9, 2013 9:50 AM CDT

How US Parents Literally Give Away Kids Online

Reuters investigation turns up shocking practices

(Newser) - When a Wisconsin couple decided they didn't want the teenager they'd adopted from Liberia anymore, they advertised her online. Within two days they'd found a family to take 16-year-old Quita, an Illinois couple named Nicole and Calvin Eason. Had they vetted the Easons, they might have found,...

Russia: Adopted Boy Died of Negligence, Not Murder

American investigators say no action planned before autopsy results

(Newser) - Russian authorities are backing away from murder accusations in the Jan. 21 death of Max Shatto, a 3-year-old adopted by Laura and Alan Shatto of Texas in November, reports the New York Times . Russia's federal commissioner for children’s rights, Pavel Astakhov, is still upset about the death, but...

Outraged Russia: US Mom Beat Adopted Boy to Death

But Max Shatto's death still under investigation in US

(Newser) - Max Shatto's new life began in November, when he and his younger brother left a Russian orphanage with adoptive parents Laura and Alan Shatto. It ended just a few months later on Jan. 21, when the 3-year-old boy died amid accusations of abuse. Texas child welfare authorities are still...

Americans Now Banned From Adopting Russian Kids

With 60K US adoptions over 20 years, critics say children will be real losers

(Newser) - As expected , Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial new bill banning US citizens from adopting Russian children, reports Reuters . In addition to the adoption ban, the Russian law, set to take effect Jan. 1, could close some Russian NGOs that receive US funding and bans Americans accused...

The Meaning Behind Jolie's New Tattoo

Seventh map coordinates appear under other kids' birthplace tattoos

(Newser) - After sharp-eyed reporters spotted a seventh tattoo on Jolie's upper left arm, reports erupted that kid No. 7 was being added to her brood. After all, the other six tattoos mark the latitude and longitude of the birthplace of each of her six children. People reported that the new seventh...

Web Game Turns Celeb Orphans Into Accessories

It's all in fun, says My Minx founder, but parents' groups disagree

(Newser) - An online fashion game is under fire for allowing players to buy a chic accessory for their avatars: the adopted children of celebrities. My Minx , a “dress-up game for style icons,” now includes an “adoption clinic” where players can acquire web versions of, say, Angelina Jolie’s...

For US Adoptees Seeking Roots in China, Only Obstacles

Search for birth parents leaves many frustrated

(Newser) - For the US adoptive families who return to China in search of their children's birth parents, their travels often, and frustratingly, wind their way to dead ends. Adoptions in China remain defiantly closed and shrouded in mystery—the country prohibits the abandoning of children, so most babies are abandoned anonymously,...

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