tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post822839834158884346..comments2024-03-27T20:48:39.389-04:00Comments on [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: Corruption in Foreign Adoptions: China, AgainLorraine Duskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-59111378184215040592011-08-07T19:55:23.903-04:002011-08-07T19:55:23.903-04:00Speaking of foreign adoptions, check this out:
ht...Speaking of foreign adoptions, check this out:<br /><br />http://www.adoptivefamiliescircle.com/groups/topic/Guatemalan_Judge_Orders_US_Couple_to_Return_Child/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-83175931184038672612011-07-29T21:31:18.465-04:002011-07-29T21:31:18.465-04:00Yo Lee: Can't "move anything around"...Yo Lee: Can't "move anything around" but if you want to repost this at the blog where the thread is, I will repost it there. Sounds like a good idea...Lorraine Duskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-54719388081354196582011-07-29T21:26:12.940-04:002011-07-29T21:26:12.940-04:00Hey Lorraine - my post is regarding comments for y...Hey Lorraine - my post is regarding comments for your July 24th & 27th threads - so if you want to move this - okay by me! I had an emergency appendix surgery last Tuesday night - so I'm kind of behind! Healing great - thanks in advance!! (0:<br /><br />Robin said<br /><i>Of course, my fmother was fed the line that I would be taunted for being a bastard and wouldn't have any friends.</i><br /><br />Ah, yes - that word "bastard" was thrown out at me too at St. Anne's; here's one of my scenarios going on in my head before I went to sign the adoption papers - I'd just take here to another part of the US & say my "husband" died in Viet Nam (daughter born in 1969)! But like Janet - I can never except fully WHY I did what I did!!<br /><br />Robin said:<br /><i>Yes, I did have material advantages (for a time) but I don't see any advantage to losing my entire family on both sides, being raised in a family that I didn't fit into, having the wrong surname and growing up in the wrong city.</i> <br /><br />BUT - we were told you/everyone is born a "blank slates" - you would remember nothing, would not remember us!!<br /><br />Von said...<br /><i>For the most part I'd guess from what I'm told and my own reunion, that what satisfies adoptees is a mother who is honest, truthful, has good intentions and has dealt with the past as best she can.</i><br /><br />Yes - I've been very honest & truthful - with good intentions with my own daughter, but...<br /><br />Janet - Good Luck in your reunion - and YES, as Lorraine said - keep us updated - I'll live thru you!! LOL! I'm still waiting for my own 42 year old to come around!Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-56396900785483377322011-07-29T16:03:25.550-04:002011-07-29T16:03:25.550-04:00These litlle babies are more than likely going to ...These litlle babies are more than likely going to be bought by Americans for the right price of course. The economy is affecting the baby buying business too. Can't Americans that want to adopt get a Chinese loan to adopt a Chinese baby. American economy was thriving and Americans were busy adopting a few short years ago. <br />People should be appalled at baby trafficking and using young girls for profit. I saw this news on limited tv I have<br />Where is humanity in this??Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04701407465248392373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-45551512576364493462011-07-29T15:07:39.515-04:002011-07-29T15:07:39.515-04:00Nobody doubts that such trafficking exists. In thi...Nobody doubts that such trafficking exists. In this particular instance, reports lead me to think that the babies could have been intended for customers in China because there's a huge black market for children in-country. Girls are often sought as slaves or child brides. One of the reports mentions this connection, which may be worth considering. One of the awful ironies, though, is that the rescued children have ended up in orphanages because their parents can't be found. <br /><br />Trafficking is proving very hard to root out in China where traditional values dictate that families function best being constituted in certain ways. The One Child Policy has only increased that pressure. Punishment for trafficking can also be hit and miss and often depends on what signal the government wants to send, and in what context. <br /><br />From AP<br /><br /><br />Liu Ancheng, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security Criminal Investigation Bureau, was quoted in the People's Daily report as saying that if the buyers have not abused the children, they cannot be held criminally responsible.<br /><br />Liu said the "dreadful practice of buying and selling children" is a result of ignorance of the law in rural areas as well as traditional Chinese social norms that call for people "to have both sons and daughters" and children who will look after a parent in old age.<br /><br />China's traditional preference for male heirs means some families sell their female babies in order to try for a boy, since the country's one-child policy limits most urban couples to one child and rural families to two.<br /><br />http://news.yahoo.com/china-rescues-89-trafficked-children-arrests-369-044433173.html<br /><br />Hope this is useful information.Jessnoreply@blogger.com