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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. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] 16-month-old Jeong-in was murdered by her adoptive parents in 2020, after being matched with them by Holt.
Plummeting international adoption numbers will drop even more after China ended the practice. But to best help children that shouldn't be our focus. Opinion: I'm an adoptive dad.
In 1956, the Holts founded the Holt International Children's Services. [3] There was no system in place at the time for international adoptions. Grandma Holt, as she was known, continued to be active in the agency until the day she died. [2] While in South Korea in 1964, Harry Holt had a heart attack and died.
The decades-long phenomenon of international adoption in South Korea began after the Korean War. In the years since the war, South Korea has become the largest and longest provider of children placed for international adoption, with 165,944 recorded Korean adoptees living in 14 countries, primarily in North America and Western Europe, as of ...
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A 2015 article which was printed in Public Radio International stated that Arissa Oh who wrote a book about the beginnings of international adoption said that "Koreans have this myth of racial purity; they wanted to get rid of these children. Originally international adoption was supposed to be this race-based evacuation." [9]
The Brothers' Home (Korean: 형제복지원) was an internment camp (officially a welfare facility) located in Busan, South Korea during the 1970s and 1980s . The camp was home to some of the worst human rights abuses in South Korea during the period of social purification [2] and has been nicknamed "Korea's Auschwitz" by various Korean media outlets.