Western governments eagerly approved and even pushed for the adoption of South Korean children for decades, despite evidence that adoption agencies were aggressively competing for kids, pressuring ...

Yooree Kim, who was sent to France by an adoption agency when she was 11, shows some old photos of her and her brother in her apartment in Seoul, in May 2024. Here are some of the problems adoptees ...

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French ...

Rachel Smolka’s adoption paperwork said she was the result of a rape and that her single mother didn’t want to raise a baby alone. Other forms said she had no father or mother at all and had been ...

JUSTICE. BECOMING A MOTHER HAS REALLY SHAPED ME AND AND MADE ME THINK A LOT ABOUT MY ROOTS AND MY ADOPTION, WHICH IS WHAT LED ME TO TO THIS SEARCH. 35 YEAR OLD CARA MIRANDA HAS ALWAYS KNOWN SHE’S ...

Seoul, South Korea — Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented by Frontline (PBS) last week on Korean adoptions. The ...