themonmouthjournal.com — Carol Barbieri uncovered the secrets of her adoption and lineage during a yearlong investigation, and a race against time, on a quest to find her medical heritage and save her son.
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lifestyle.msn.com — A growing online gray market of free sperm donors has sprung up to serve single women, lesbian couples, and married couples challenged by male infertility who can't afford the expense -- or in some countries, who don't have the "right" social status -- for traditional sperm banks.
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spiegel.de — For many of the now-adult children of white German women and African-American GIs, adopted by families in the United States after World War II, the search for the truth has been difficult.
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rapidcityjournal.com — Eric Roach is working to change a South Dakota law so other adoptees won't have to work as hard, or tell lies, to get their original birth certificates.
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newmatilda.com - The Federal Government wants to give forced adoption victims an apology, but seems very keen to prevent the public finding out exactly what the apology is for, writes Emily Wolfinger
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More than three decades after Ron Ryba and Kathleen Butler gave up their baby son to Catholic Charities of Trenton, N.J., for adoption, and four years after the agency facilitated their "reunion" with Phil Bloete, genetic testing revealed last year that none of them are related.
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nytimes.com — A child-welfare agency with origins in the 19th century and a Dickensian name celebrated its 140th anniversary with a gathering of people whom it helped as infants.
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theglobeandmail.com — Proposed changes to Quebec's adoption law will allow some adopted children to remain legally bonded to their biological parents in what is regarded as an unprecedented move by a provincial government.
This means that an adopted child will retain a "double family bond" if all parties in the process agree. While the adoptive family will have legal authority over the child's welfare, the adopted child will be allowed to continue to have ties to his or her biological family. The birth documents will contain the names of the child's original parents as well those of his or her adoptive parents.
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fora.tv — Harvard Professor Michael Sandel deliveres a speech titled "Markets and Morals" as part of the Chautauqua Institution 2009 Summer Lecture Series.
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koreaherald.co.kr — Behind the glamour of adoption, new beginnings and happy reunions, there is another, darker side of loss and separation for birth mothers, birth families, and adoptees that is often left out of the discussion.
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vancouversun.com — A Nova Scotia mother who adopted a baby from China says she is haunted by questions about whether her little girl — and other Chinese adoptees in Canada — might have been kidnapped from her birth parents, or sold for cash.
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thanhniennews.com — A proposal to end the illegal selling of adoption rights comes under fire as critics say it misappropriates government power.
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argusleader.com — The desire to see what they call "the first legal paper that is mine" is why South Dakota residents seek to change state law. Rather than have to go before a judge to obtain their birth records, a bill they're pushing would allow adoptees 18 and older to obtain the documents from the state Department of Health.
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A Roslyn attorney stole thousands of dollars from prospective parents trying to adopt children by promising them nonexistent babies, Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said Friday.
Kevin Cohen, 41, was arrested at his home Friday morning following a 16-month investigation into the alleged scam.
Cohen was charged last December for trying to steal the house he lived in, prosecutors said.
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ft.com — China has invited thousands of foundlings back to their birthplaces for government-sponsored “homeland tours” which, like last year’s Beijing Olympics or next year’s Shanghai World Expo, give the country a chance to show off to the world.
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livemint.com — Adopted by an American family 25 years ago, Goa-born Nisha Grayson is coming back ‘home’ in search of her birth mother and herself
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theglobeandmail.com — Their children may consider it a personal decision, but parents of egg and sperm donors rarely see it that way. Many struggle with longing for branches of the family tree they may never meet
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conducivemag.com — Adoption is already steeped in the legacy of loss for the child and his family. Add to this the recent revelations of the selling of babies for adoption in countries like Vietnam and India, and one needs only to reconsider who exactly is benefiting from adoption. Kevin Minh Allen, a Vietnamese adoptee, explores ways to effectively address this...
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washingtonpost.com — Many advocates say disparities in child welfare subsidies hurt children and hamper the city's efforts to move children out of foster care, especially older children, whose best hope might be a relative willing to become a guardian.
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ny1.com — NY1 Politics Online: Interview with Darryl McDaniels & Zara Phillips promoting adoptee rights and dispelling myths and misconceptions regarding restoring access legislation.
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google.com — A court in northern Vietnam has put 16 people on trial for allegedly selling more than 250 babies for foreign adoption, a court official said Tuesday. The defendants allegedly solicited infants from unwed mothers and those from poor families and falsified documents claiming the babies had been abandoned at village clinics
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cnn.com — The fertility clinic where Carolyn Savage underwent in vitro fertilization implanted another couple's embryos into Carolyn's uterus. In essence, she had become an unwitting surrogate for another family. Carolyn is now 35 weeks pregnant and expecting to deliver within the next couple of weeks.
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today.msnbc.msn.com — Two Maine co-workers who discovered they were long-lost brothers, and then found they had a half sister, are about to be reunited with yet another sibling. Kat Cooper saw the three siblings on TODAY Tuesday morning talking about how they were trying to find another sister with the birth name Claire Marie. "That's me!" she realized.
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thenewstribune.com — Gwen Howell has her mother's build, her mother's hands and her mother's earlobes. But she didn't know that until this summer, when she got to see photos of the woman who gave birth to her as a teenager and then made the painful decision to give her up for adoption.
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It began with a chance encounter at a New Year's party in 2004. I was trying to leave, but a woman said she had a message for me. She knew I had been a journalist and she had a friend who wanted my help to solve a family mystery. I agreed to a meeting, and found myself embarking on a five-year quest for a man I had never met.
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