Lately, I have been exchanging emails with an Amother and an adult adoptee, and as strange as it may sound, while each has very different stories related to very different phases in life, both seem to be sharing the same problem: they don't know what to do when the walls go up, and the barriers surround.

I find myself in the precarious position of knowing some of the whys, the hows and the what-not-to-do's when it comes to learning how to bridge the gap from scared little bear, to caring and capable warm human being.

Last year, I wrote Adapting to Mother's Day, After Adoption,  a piece that introduces readers to the heartbreak some must endure when one person's loss becomes some other person's gain, thanks to illegal unethical adoption practices - found throughout Adoptionland.  I reached the conclusion that children kidnapped and forced into an adoption plan should not be expected to celebrate Mother's Day.  Given all that can transpire between and through the hands of corrupt doctors, lawyers, judges, and a

By Nisha Nambiar

May 8, 2012 / The Financial Express

On behalf of Raquel Par, she sends her daughter who was kidnapped in Guatemala and sold into ICA this message on her daughter's birthday:
(see: http://adoptionwatch.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/03/stolen-for-guatemalan...)

Feliz Cumpleaños Heidy. Hoy cumples 7 años de edad.

http://californiaschildren.typepad.com/californias-children/2010/01/ukra...

*Tragic story, even though it is two years old, not sure if this is in the PPL archives. Interesting to read especially in relation to other ICA dissolved cases occurring. In this story, California court will not undo Ukrainian adoption.

The decision rests on a California statute, section 9100 of the California Family Code, that does, in fact, allow a court to vacate an adoption:

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/23449-colombian-children-k...

Colombia's Family Welfare Institute "kidnaps" Colombian children by giving them up for adoption to foreign families against the will of their biological parents, several reports said.

In a program aired Sunday, television station Caracol told the story of a young boy named Steven who was born in Colombia but adopted by a Dutch family.

Children adopted by US parents in 2011:

Argentina-1
Bolivia-4
Brazil-9
Chile-1
Colombia-216
Costa Rica-1
Cuba-0

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/04/24/45897.htm

Tuesday, April 24, 2012Last Update: 6:22 AM PT

Woman Wants Adoption Case Ended for Good
By TISH KRAFT

REDDING, Calif. (CN) - A woman who touched off an international furor by returning her 7-year-old son to Russia 6 months after adopting him asked a Superior Court judge to enforce a Russian Federation Supreme Court case annulling the adoption.

By Victoria Aronson / thebrandeishoot.com
April 20, 2012

As a fellow of the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University, Erin Siegal has painstakingly unearthed the corruption of international adoptions, particularly those stemming from Guatemala, and exposed them to the public with her books “Finding Fernanda” and “The U.S. Embassy Cables: Adoption Fraud in Guatemala, 1987-2010.”

Sandra Noemí Maldonado Velásquez, the woman who fraudulently pretended to be the relinquishing mother of the child Anyelí Rodríguez (Karen Abigail) who was kidnapped from her home and sold into ICA is captured and in jail without bond.

January 2012 saw the highest ever number of care applications recorded in an individual month and professionals say the pressure is mounting

By Jessica Fuhl

Did doctors and the Catholic Church traffic in stolen newborns? Mike Elkin reports from Madrid on the shocking trial of one nun.

By Mike Elkin

April 11, 2012 / The Daily Beast

With sad regrets, we commemorate the sixth anniversary of the kidnapping. Last year I wrote about the Fifth anniversary of the kidnapping of Heidy Sarai Batz Par (http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/47084) from her mother in Guatemala.

She is the daughter of Raquel Par: http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/28517 The child was a year old when she was kidnapped and sold into ICA. She is will be 7 years old on May 1. It is believed she is residing in Iowa with an adoptive family.

By KJ DELL'ANTONIA

April 4, 2012 / The New York Times

April 2, 2012 /

The arrest is for the kidnapping/laundering of ... Dafne Nayeli Camey Pérez (Yajaira Noemí Muyus).
Please note: the child was returned to her parents BEFORE the child left Guatemala for ICA.

On March 19 and 20, 2012, three newspapers in Guatemala and CICIG posted the same article concerning Susana Luarca’s re-incarceration, actually occurring on March 16, 2012.

The available online articles can be found here:

Talks on bilateral child adoption agreement

March 30, 2012 / RIA Novosti

An adoption deal between Russia and the United States drafted in the wake of a series of tragic episodes involving Russian children and their adoptive American families was submitted to the State Duma for ratification on Friday, a lower house spokesman said.

FATHER AND DAUGHTER TOGETHER AGAIN AFTER 38 YEARS

By MYLES BUCHANAN

A DAUGHTER and her father have been reunited 38 years after she was forcibly removed by the church from his home in Dublin.

Christy Cox and his daughter Wendy (Suzanne) Parle were torn apart from one another when Wendy was just three months old.

The pair spent decades trying to track one another down only to find out that they lived a mere 45-minute drive away from one another across the Wicklow Gap, with Wendy residing in Rathdrum and Christy in Dunlavin.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-jane-aronson/why-do-i-keep-on-dancinga_...

Why Do I Keep On Dancing... And Fighting?

Dr. Jane AronsonPediatrician and CEO, Worldwide Orphans Foundation
Posted: 03/26/2012

from: abc.net.au

From the 1950s until 1980, more than 17,000 children were adopted in SA, many through forced removal by agencies or churches.

A Senate report tabled recently recommended all states and territories make official apologies.

Premier Jay Weatherill said that would happen in SA.

To the Cheiftan:

By: Amy Patterson Neubert

March 23, 2012 / EurekAlert

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Fatigue and unrealistic expectations of parenthood may help contribute to post-adoption depression in women, according to a Purdue University study.

http://thecitizen.co.tz/component/content/article/37-tanzania-top-news-s...

By Bernard James
The Citizen Reporter

Kathryn Blaze Carlson / nationalpost.com

This is how the woman, then young, remembered the August day in 1963 on which she gave birth to her illegitimate daughter: She was in an Edmonton hospital; the doctor ordered she receive an injection. She blacked out, and when she started to come to, a male voice said: “knock her out.”

This is another attempt to warn people who plan to adopt in New Jersey. This letter excerpt in quotation marks is valid and true. [Parenthesis inserts are mine but nonetheless true.]
November 3, 2008
New Jersey Office of the Attorney General;

http://www.prensalibre.com/noticias/justicia/Cicig-acciona-jueza-Ninez_0...

03/17/12 - JUSTICE!!!

The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) yesterday filed a complaint with the Public Ministry against Rossana Maribel Guzman Mena, the first judge of Children and Adolescents and Adolescents in Conflict with the Law.

BY CORALIA ORANTES

By Sandra G. Boodman

March 18, 2012 / MSNBC.com

Adriane Fugh-Berman was stunned by the question: Two graduate students who had no symptoms of mental illness wondered if she thought they should take a powerful schizophrenia drug each had been prescribed to treat insomnia.

By Bae Ji-sook

March 18, 2012 /  The Korea Herald

THE PERVERSE EFFECTS OF THE HAGUE ADOPTION CONVENTION * (R. Post)
Excerpt from PDF:

http://pear-now.blogspot.com/2012/03/pear-ethics-alert-china-special-nee...