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international adoption

Peter Møller, attorney and co-head of the Danish Korean Rights Group, holds documents at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022.
Justice
Danish Korean adoptees seek truth about their adoption circumstances
A black and white photo of a large family
Global Nation First Person
For many, international adoption isn’t just a new family. It’s the loss of another life.
Layne Fostervold and his mother, Kim Sook-nyeon. Fostervold was adopted by an American family when he was about 2 years old. His mother never stopped wondering what happened to him.
Culture
A Korean adoptee meets his birth mother and winds up moving in with her
Kim Craig has spent the past three years in Korea, hoping to get home to the US.
Justice
This woman has been stuck in Korea for three years trying to get home to the US
Two images, one of an infant in black and white and one of a woman
Justice
She’ll get US citizenship 60 years after being adopted, but thousands more must still wait
Maya Ludtke, born in China, adopted by a Caucasian American single mother, on her first trip back to the country of her birth
Identity, adoption and China’s one-child policy
Full Episode
Lee Jin-ri had been abandoned at a "baby box" at South Korean church. The "baby box" is where mothers can leave unwanted infants. South Korea was the first country to send its babies abroad for adoption.
Development
How South Korea became the first country to start international adoptions
Kaomi Goetz, 44, (r) with distant relative, Alice Thompson, 28. They're both Korean-American adoptees who found a shared genetic connection on a DNA database, after they had met by chance at a gathering for adoptees in Brooklyn, New York. Kaomi is still t
Science
Korean adoptees are using DNA kits to get a glimpse of their ancestry
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Culture
This woman reconnected with her birth mother in Brazil to find peace. For her adoptive mom.
Loyda Rodríguez holding a photograph that shows her daughter Anyelí and her siblings.
Justice
One girl’s controversial adoption, and what it says about Guatemala’s broken international adoption system
Arts, Culture & Media
A New Magazine Hopes to Spark Frank Talk About Race and Identity in Adoption
Global Politics
Russian adoptee says proposed ban on American adoption ban is unfair, inaccurate
In South Korea, activists try to support single mothers
China invites children adopted to US to return to their roots
Global Politics
Single Mothers in South Korea
Lifestyle & Belief
International adoption or child trafficking?
Lifestyle & Belief
Vietnam halts US adoption