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Eugene

(64,067 posts)
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 02:13 PM Wednesday

South Korea admits to 'mass exporting' children for adoption

Source: BBC

South Korean governments committed numerous human rights violations over decades in a controversial programme that sent at least 170,000 children and babies abroad for adoption, a landmark inquiry has found.

It said the government's lack of oversight enabled the "mass exportation of children" by private agencies that were driven by profit, and found examples of fraud, falsified records and coercion.

Since the 1950s, South Korea has sent more children abroad for adoption than any other country, with most sent to Western countries.

South Korea has sinced moved to tighten its adoption processes, but some adoptees and their biological parents say they are still haunted by what they went through. The BBC spoke to one woman who claimed her adoptive parents "took better care of the dog than they ever did of me".

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyjryv1kpgo

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South Korea admits to 'mass exporting' children for adoption (Original Post) Eugene Wednesday OP
And these are the supposed good guys? GreenWave Wednesday #1
Betsy Devose says " I can beat that, remember those immigrant deportees?" Clouds Passing Wednesday #2
S Korea is having a serious problem of low birth rate. Norrrm Wednesday #3
International adoption -- it needs to be stopped MissKat Wednesday #4
... Solly Mack Wednesday #5
Not only S Korea does this, we do too mntleo2 Wednesday #6

MissKat

(231 posts)
4. International adoption -- it needs to be stopped
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 03:55 PM
Wednesday

As someone who was adopted internationally-- essentially what you have is baby selling. It isn't adoption.

It's hard enough for a child to realize that not only did their mother/family reject them, so did their country.

It's very difficult for someone who doesn't know the language to try to find their history.

A child adopted internationally usually loses their name, their language, their heritage and they face an almost impossible burden to find the truth.

For me, it was a forty year search. I have an inherited medical condition. How many international adoptees suffer from inherited medical issues?

I want you to imagine if a Korean family came to America and tried to adopt a white child. What do you think would happen? The myth of "saving the child for Christ" has to stop. Paying $30,000 to a Russian "orphanage" in cash (they don't take VISA) has to stop.

A child should remain in their own country.

mntleo2

(2,588 posts)
6. Not only S Korea does this, we do too
Wed Mar 26, 2025, 10:00 PM
Wednesday

...In the States it is big business to take kids and give them to anyone with designer curtains and a nice car in the driveway. In fact for each child taken and adopted there is a $10,000 award for doing it. The adoption business is very well financed by lucrative government and grants awarded "nonprofits." I have my own family damage they made with me and the child. They took the child from, the grandparents and lied about them, accusing them of abuse. There was no real investigation, no speaking to the people who were involved with the family, no real looking into the things that they should have been investigating and ignoring the facts ~ especially when it came to their anticipated $10,000 + bonuses. None, and the child was in a therapeutic childcare for the first 4 years who never saw a damn thing and recommended the child be adopted by them.. This childcare center was quite aware of kids who were abused, they kept watch and they found none. These people then adopted this kid to a couple who had just lost their own 2 year old child months earlier who drowned in their back yard pool! They had 4 little kids running around in the house with no supervision and they were still asleep in bed at 10am. What parent who is a decent parent raises up early, before the kids are up? Oh I know

Believe me until it happened so close to me I was shocked. I thought up to then that this part of child protection was a good thing. After all they were saving kids getting cigarette burn and beatings, right? But when I researched it thoroughly, I found some horrifying things. One sector of this population I was already working with; low income families and teens. Many of these teens on the street are lost to their own families, they are not heard when they try to report abuse and neglect even rape of a child. these kids are told lies about their parents and foster and adopted kids do not even know their parents, as well as their grandparents. See, these departments and non-profits do not get as much money if they actually see the fraud and abuse right in front of them. After alol they "vetted" these place ~ but to hell with the families who may want their children.

So it is not just Korea giving away kids. Whether taken as babies or older not having blood related family around them ~ and especially if they do not even share the race of these kids, We do it here too. In my state taken kids were subjected to physical abuse, denying of food and other needs. I heard all the time from kids that they try to talk to authorities about what they experience and unless "sex" was in the report well, they just go to hell ~ literally. I have even known parents whose kids that were taken and in foster care or adopted whose children are murdered and found buried in the homes' back yards. I am *not* making this up!

I've discovered so much more I have seen and believe me it is not pretty about our own country. I pity the immigration kids put in these foster homes, I worry about the "disappeared ones, who I suspect have been trafficked. But hey, these kids were placed in new homes with designer curtains by golly! I am not saying there aren't good homes out there, indeed I know of those too. the alarm is about who is vetting these people? Certainly not the CASA, who also gets massive government grants in exchange for their "work," many who have never had kids of their own. Not the CPS worker who already decides the birth family is bad, even the grandparents, while it is fine to place them with strangers they've "vetted"


Just sayin' ... Cat in Seattle

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