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
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.
Adopted, age two by Sean Jackman, Samantha Killary was sexually abused by her adoptive father throughout her childhood. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A then 9-year-old boy adopted from Russia by Ralph and Carolyn Flynn was sexually abused by his adoptive parents. The Flynn's adopted another boy from New Jersey, whom they sexually abused as well.
Several children were adopted by David and Barbara Frodsham. At least two of the boys they adopted were sexually abused by their adoptive father. Frodsham forced the boys to have sex with other men in a sex ring.
Five of the ten children adopted by Jonathan and Allison Schumm were physically abused by their adoptive parents.
The Schumms had received an Angels in Adoption award in 2013. This makes them the second couple from Kansas that got this prestigious award and ended up abusing children. The other couple were Brandon and Melissa Hoffman. Both families were nominated by Jerry Moran.
In the 1980s, at least 200 children were separated from their families into an effective "adoption machine" that was set up by a network of Quebec missionaries and adoptive parents.