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Selling babies for cash?
Earlier post
How trafficking in children works
Adoptive parents said Petersen was regarded
as a family man and a trusted source for adoptions, particularly among
the Latter-day Saint community (Mormons) in Arizona, Utah and Arkansas.
The Cost of Fleeing Climate Change | The New Yorker
While migration from the islands to the United States has been increasing, thanks largely to remittances from family members who are already here, much of the population that wants to migrate cannot afford a plane ticket. When Lamy got pregnant with Neslina, at the age of nineteen, she was overjoyed, but quickly realized that she would be raising her on her own, with no support from Neslina’s father.
When she got pregnant a second time, a year later, she was scared. She started speaking with her relatives to see if there was someone else who might help.
Adoption between relatives and in-laws is common throughout the Marshall Islands, and children often live freely between households—raised, in fact, by a village.
According to one study, as many as twenty-five per cent of all Marshallese children are adopted. But most birth parents are still able to see their children regularly and maintain relationships with them into adulthood.
Rumors circulated that Marshallese women, as one former employee for the
Arkansas Department of Human Services told me, “were selling their
babies for cash.”
That was not the case, but, as Kathryn Joyce wrote in The New Republic,
in 2015, over the past decade, adoptions of Marshallese babies were
occurring in the Springdale area at an alarming rate, with many of the
mothers feeling pressured into a situation that they could not escape.
Joyce profiled one Marshallese woman, Maryann Koshiba, who had placed
her baby up for adoption believing that she would be able to keep in
touch with the adoptive parents and see her child in the future. But, in
Arkansas, the law dictates that all adoptions are closed—the birth
parents’ identities are sealed and unavailable to the adopted child, and
the adoptive parents’ identities are sealed and unavailable to the
birth parents. (Arrangements can be made to circumvent that law and keep
identities transparent.)
Koshiba, however, did not know anything about
closed adoption and became increasingly frantic when she was unable to
contact the adoptive parents or find out anything about her baby.
“Welcome to the world of legal realities,” Paul Petersen told The New Republic.
If law-enforcement officials “really want to stop it, then they should
bar all Marshallese people—women—from coming to the U.S. unless they
have a medical examiner show they’re not pregnant.”
READ:
The Cost of Fleeing Climate Change | The New Yorker
Canada's Residential Schools
The religious organizations that operated the schools — the Anglican Church of Canada, Presbyterian Church in Canada, United Church of Canada, Jesuits of English Canada and some Catholic groups —
in 2015 expressed regret for the “well-documented” abuses. The Catholic Church has never offered an official apology, something that Trudeau and others have repeatedly called for.
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New York’s 40-year battle for OBC access ended when on January 15 2020, OBCs were opened to ALL New York adoptees upon request without restriction. In only three days, over 3,600 adoptees filed for their record of birth. The bill that unsealed records was passed 196-12.
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As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.”
The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
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Rebecca Tallbear entitled: “DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe”, bearing out what I only inferred:
Detailed discussion of the Bering Strait theory and other scientific theories about the population of the modern-day Americas is beyond the scope of this essay. However, it should be noted that Indian people have expressed suspicion that DNA analysis is a tool that scientists will use to support theories about the origins of tribal people that contradict tribal oral histories and origin stories. Perhaps more important,the alternative origin stories of scientists are seen as intending to weaken tribal land and other legal claims (and even diminish a history of colonialism?) that are supported in U.S. federal and tribal law. As genetic evidence has already been used to resolve land conflicts in Asian and Eastern European countries, this is not an unfounded fear.
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