Important AP investigative story on the int’l adoption system that separated Korean kids from their families “as part of a lucrative business under the military governments that ruled South Korea from the 1960s to the late 1980s.” #adopteetwitter seattletimes.com/nation-world/s…
“Adoptions were a way to remove the socially undesirable, including children from unwed mothers or poor families, and to reduce the number of mouths to feed.
About 200,000 Korean children were adopted by families in the West in the past six decades, including 7,924 in 1984.”
About 200,000 Korean children were adopted by families in the West in the past six decades, including 7,924 in 1984.”
“Roots are often untraceable because most of the children were listed as abandoned, even when they had known relatives, WHICH MADE THEM EASILY ADOPTABLE.”
This is how orphans are manufactured.
This is how orphans are manufactured.
What the story does not say is how the whole exploitive money-making system was predicated on the willing gullibility of white, affluent, adoptive parents in the West who longed to see themselves as the altruistic saviors of abandoned orphans.
It’s a toxic myth that persists.
It’s a toxic myth that persists.
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