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  2. List of international adoption scandals - Wikipedia

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    Forced adoption in the United Kingdom removed children permanently from their parents. 1960s-1980s Highlighted by the Dutch current affairs show Zembla in 2017, purportedly 11,000 babies were fraudulently sold for adoption in the 1980s from Sri Lanka to western countries, with the use of baby farms to meet the apparent high demand. [1] [2] [3 ...

  3. Holt International Children's Services - Wikipedia

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    The agency faced criticism in 2014 when a 3-year-old, Madoc Hyunsu O'Callaghan, was murdered by his adoptive father, Brian O'Callaghan. Before the adoption, Hyunsu's foster mother had requested to adopt him, but Holt did not allow it. Furthermore, his adoptive father had concealed his PTSD during the screening process.

  4. 1980s–1990s Romanian orphans phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    As a result, large numbers of children were adopted by foreigners in the 1990s and early 2000s. Nevertheless, there were many irregularities, fueled by corruption and loose regulations. As a result, in 2004, the government banned international adoption, except by grandparents. The ban was passed under pressure from the EU, which Romania later ...

  5. TODAY viewers adopt teen who made on-air plea for family - AOL

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    Bungo and French were considering surrogacy but they were struck by a statistic reported by TODAY: only 3% of adoptive parents prefer to kids older than 13. “I paused the TV and I said, ‘Come ...

  6. Springfield parents share their foster, adoption stories ...

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  7. Nightlight Christian Adoptions - Wikipedia

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    Nightlight is a licensed non-profit [1] Hague accredited [2] adoption agency that provides pro-life counseling to pregnant women and adoption services to families. They coordinate adoptions both in the United States and internationally. They also facilitate adoption of frozen embryos and provide humanitarian assistance to children in orphanages ...

  8. Romania and Bulgaria to join Schengen free-travel area from ...

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    Checks at land borders with Bulgaria and Romania will stop from Jan. 1 after Austria dropped a veto it had maintained on grounds they needed to do more to stop illegal immigration. While air and ...

  9. Same-sex adoption in Europe - Wikipedia

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    The other mother applied for a simple adoption in order to obtain joint parental custody and was denied. Article 365 of the French Civil Code clarifies that a simple adoption is available to married couples specifically, but Article 144 prohibited same-sex marriage. [63] Therefore, they could not achieve the legal status required for simple ...