Advocate for Adoptee Rights and Justice for Victims Impacted by Predatory Practices. Fight For What's Right and Your World Will Change. More on IG @decsmith50.
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At least two foreign-born adoptees are facing federal criminal charges for alleged unlawful voting. It’s a big deal for the intercountry adoptee community. Here’s what we know so far. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #votingrights
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Amerikaanse militair vroeg stiekem, zonder toestemming vd familie de adoptie aan van een Afghaans meisje die haar ouders verloor. Ze werd opgevoed door een oom en tante. Eens de adoptie goedgekeurd, lokte de marinier en zijn vrouw de familie naar de VS. Eenmaal daar aangekomen
An adoptive mother has been sentenced to decades in prison for murdering her young son in Westmoreland County. #adoption #adoptionabuse #abuseofchildren #adoptioncrime
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She sold an estimated 5,000 children, hundreds died in her care, and she was never charged. The secrecy and money she built into adoption are still with us. #adoption #illegaladoption #childtrafficking #blackmarketadoption #stolenchildren
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When a Canadian woman who was sold as an infant in Romania returns to reclaim her identity, she uncovers the machinery that trafficked the sister she never knew, one of 30,000 children “exported” for adoption. #adoption #adopteevoices #childtrafficking
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Last year, South Korea took responsibility for enabling the ‘mass export’ of children for sale abroad. Now those uprooted are grappling with false promises of a better life. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #stolenchildren
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Can white parents raising Black children fully prepare them for the realities of racism, identity and belonging? #adoption #adopteevoices #transracialadoption #transracialadoptees
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An ICE voter fraud crackdown in Syracuse has targeted 66-year-old Marva Cook, who recently discovered she was foreign-born and adopted. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #citizenship #citizenship4adoptees
syracuse.com/news/2026/10/ic…
The Supreme Court declined to hear a highly contested appeal regarding the adoption of an Afghan child who was orphaned during a 2019 military raid. #adoption #forcedadoption #illegaladoption #stolenchildren #adoptiontrafficking
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On Monday, October 19, 2026, South Korean First Lady Kim Hye-kyung made history as the first presidential spouse to attend a Korean adoptee gathering. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #birthfamilysearch
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Around 40 Greek adoptees from the US have returned to Greece to explore their heritage, reconnect with their biological families and reclaim parts of their identities lost to international adoptions decades ago.
#adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights
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Wat geadopteerden te lijden hebben. 3,5j kost het deze geadopteerde om controle en zeggenschap te krijgen over haar eigen, privacygevoelige gegevens in haar eigen adoptiedossier waarover de staat en adoptiediensten mogen beschikken. Geen enkele andere
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A report has revealed that while the average #privateadoption cost in Utah dropped slightly to just under $60,000 over the last fiscal year, the maximum amount paid for a single adoption skyrocketed to an unprecedented upper limit of $160,000. #adoption
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This article highlights the systemic struggles of adopted children in North Macedonia who are trying to uncover their biological origins.
#adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adultadoptees #birthfamilysearch
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Do you know your family medical history? For hundreds of thousands of care-experienced people and adoptees like Aaliyah, the answer isn’t always straightforward. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adopteejourney #medicalrecords #adopteelife
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Mia Lee Sørensen’s documentary Home Sick: At the End of the Sea, which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, explores the systemic falsification of adoption records in South Korea. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoptees #stolenchildren
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For some, surrogacy is a form of baby selling that should not be allowed. For others, it is a way for intended parents to create families and for surrogates to support them. #surrogacy #surrogacymarket #surrogacylaws #surrogatemothers #sorrogateagencies
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It has been three months since the children at the center of a surrogacy case on the First Coast were taken to California. #surrogacy #surrogacymarket #surrogacylaws #surrogatemother #exploitationofwoman #whatamess
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