The assumption behind child-placement is that the safety and living conditions of a child improve. These cases demonstrate that this assumption is often invalid.
Adoption is assumed to be the result of a choice made by the parents of the child. These cases demonstrate women are pressured to give up their children.
Adoptions before 1997, didn't automatically lead to naturalization. As result, people adopted from outside the outside US that ran into problems with the justice system face deportation to their country of birth.
Although the adoptive family is called the "forever family" by the adoption industry, adoptions can end in disruption. These cases demonstrate that the "forever family" is sometimes only temporary
Children in foster care can have serious mental health issues. Too often these children are given large doses of psychotropic medications, just to keep them quiet.
The removal of children from their family's should always be a last resort. These cases demonstrate that Child Protective Services sometimes remove children for all the wrong reasons
8-year-old boy adopted from China by John and Katherine Snyder died of blunt force trauma to the head. The adoptive parents have been charged with murder. There were four more children adopted from China in the house hold.
Five-year-old girl adopted from Poland by John and Georgiana Tufts, was sexually abused by her adoptive father.
The girl was placed with the Tufts through Debra Parris of European Adoption Consultants in 2015. She and her sister were sourced from Poland. The agency placed one girl with a couple in Utah, who told the agency they could only care for one child. The adoption agency gave the other girl to the Tufts without telling authorities. The Tufts were never vetted by adoption officials.
11 children in care of Daniel and Jenise Spurgeon were sexually abused by their adoptive father and physically abused and neglected by their adoptive mother. Some of the children were adopted, while others were in foster care.
A boy and a girl adopted by Todd and Laura Starnes-Wells received extreme punishment, including hitting, making them run up a 250-yard hill, having the boy walk two hours to school making the boy sit at a table with his hands on it during the day -- interrupted only if he asked for food or to go to the bathroom -- and writing thousands of sentences.
A 15-year-old girl, an 11-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, adopted by Jim and Paige Nachtigal from Peru, were beaten, starved, and tortured by their adoptive parents, The children were taken out of public school in 2014 to be homeschooled.
12-year-old girl adopted by Eugenio and Victoria Erquiaga was regularly locked n a playhouse in a loft area of the home, and her hands were regularly restrained with zip locks.