Adoption is trafficking. The willful naïveté of US adoptive parents to this fact is the fuel that keeps the machine going.
“Possibly thousands of Chilean adoptees taken from their parents without their consent during the country’s military dictatorship” nytimes.com/2021/12/17/wor…
“Possibly thousands of Chilean adoptees taken from their parents without their consent during the country’s military dictatorship” nytimes.com/2021/12/17/wor…
“Gen. Augusto Pinochet, actively encouraged overseas adoptions to reduce poverty. The process was abetted by a vast network of officials— including judges, social workers, health professionals and adoption brokers—who forged documents and are widely assumed to have taken bribes.”
This happened in the 1970s and 80s, and these US adoptees are just learning the truth now. That they were in fact stolen from their mothers. And none of this would have ever even come to light without DNA testing technology.
Ernesto Londoño @londonoe, thank you for for shining a light and for centering #adopteevoices in your reporting. So many of us adoptees in the US have been fighting for so long against the ongoing secrecies and deceptions of the adoption industry. This is why.
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