The 'PD Notebook' sheds light on the overall problem of managing the adoption records of children adopted abroad.

MBC's current affairs program "PD Notebook," which will air at 10:20 p.m. on the 14th, will air the "Disappeared Adoption Record: The Country That Erased Me."

South Korea, which has been labeled a "child exporter" by sending 200,000 children abroad for adoption over the past 70 years. Finding roots is at stake as a comprehensive problem has been revealed in the management of adoption records for those who were recently adopted abroad. It has been revealed that not only adoption institutions but also public institutions that were willing to receive private records and manage them have concealed the problem. The 'PD Notebook' examines the true nature of the adoption record computerization project, which has been carried out for 10 years since 2013.

adoptees who believed in false records

The "PD Notebook" met adoptees who had difficulty finding their biological families due to their adoption records. Park Sang-jo, a Danish adoptee, visited Korea more than 10 times in 35 years to find her biological parents. He gave up looking for his family, believing that the record of adoption of "orphan" by Holt Children's Welfare Association was true. However, this year, I suddenly find out that I have information from my biological father and I am shocked. Although his biological father was already dead, it was impossible to meet him, Holt did not comply with Park's request to provide adoption records to meet many brothers. Park, who overcame various obstacles and met his siblings dramatically, learned that his family had asked the agency to get him back, but was already rejected for leaving far away and had been looking for his whole life.

14 cantons want to work together better in the future to help adopted people find their biological parents. Because not everything always went smoothly. A look back.

Why were there so many international adoptions in the past?

As economic and social conditions improved in Switzerland – especially for single mothers – there were fewer children available for adoption. Some Swiss couples therefore looked for children abroad. From the 1960s onwards there was a wave of adoptions from Asian countries, later from South America and Africa and from 1989 from Eastern Europe.

Unwanted childlessness was not always the reason. Some Swiss couples also saw adoption as a "humanitarian act". For social or religious reasons, they wanted to free children from poverty and offer them a better life with educational opportunities.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean court on Wednesday cleared the government and an adoption agency of all liability in a lawsuit filed by a 49-year-old Korean man whose traumatic adoption journey led to an abusive childhood in the United States and ultimately his deportation to South Korea in 2016 after legal troubles.

In exonerating the South Korean government over the case of Adam Crapser, whose U.S. adoptive parents never secured his citizenship, the Seoul High Court overturned a 2023 lower court ruling that ordered his adoption agency, Holt Children’s Services, to pay him 100 million won ($68,600) in damages. The Seoul Central District Court ruled that Holt should have informed his adoptive parents that they needed to take additional steps to secure his citizenship after his adoption was finalized in their state court, but didn’t find the government at fault for Crapser’s plight.

The full text of the Seoul High Court’s ruling wasn’t immediately available. Crapser didn’t attend the ruling.

Crapser, a married father of two, says he was abused and abandoned by two different adoptive families who never filed his citizenship papers. He got into trouble with the law — once for breaking into his adoptive parents’ home to retrieve the Bible that came with him from the orphanage — and was deported because he was not a U.S. citizen.

In their defense against the accusations of malfeasance raised by Crapser, the government and Holt both cited a 1970s adoption law established under a military dictatorship that was designed to speed up adoptions.

CID also recovered a two-month-old daughter from the couple They adopted that child

Kolkata: CID has arrested a couple on the basis of child trafficking ring The couple was arrested from Lake Town area of ​​Jessore Road on Tuesday The arrested have been identified as Vijay Santhalia and his wife Neha

It is reported that the couple adopted a girl child for about 7 lakh rupees However, the couple fell into the clutches of the child trafficking ring without following the legal rules for adoption

CID also recovered a two-month-old daughter from the couple They adopted that child Howrah court on Tuesday the two arrested or not?

According to sources, the baby girl was probably brought from Bihar and given to the couple After investigating the child trafficker, the police arrested a broker named Manik It was Manik and his wife Mukul who probably handed over the baby to the Lake Town couple Investigators are also looking into whether anyone else has adopted children from this cycle illegally.

His family disrespectfully left him in the forest. The child's body was scarred by ant bites. After the rescue, he was treated in the hospital for a long time. Then settled in government home. This time in distant America

The four-year-old boy named Sangeet got a 'new home'. She went to her foster parents from her home in Medinipur on Monday.

According to administration sources, Joshua Michael Lawrence, a resident of New Jersey, America, and his wife Raven Elizabeth Lawrence have adopted Sangeet.

On this day, the adoption process was completed in a domestic ceremony at the collectorate premises in Medinipur. The American couple is very happy to have a baby boy.

District Magistrate Khurshid Ali Qaderi says, "Adoption of children is a very important step for the overall development of the society." Additional District Magistrate Kempa Honnaiah says, "If accomplished people come forward in this way, many more will get the affection, love and home of the guardian."

Applicable to various branches of civil law, the 'Doctrine of Relation Back' refers to a principle that creates a legal fiction where certain acts or rights are allowed to take effect retroactively from an earlier date than the actual date of occurrence. Because the rights came to be enforceable from an earlier date, thus the doctrine saves the person from the prejudice suffered between...

Sneha, a 21-year-old Spanish woman, has traveled to Bhubaneswar, India, to find her biological mother before returning to Spain. Adopted in 2010 along with her brother from a local orphanage, Sneha is determined to uncover her origins despite minimal information. With police and local help, they are trying to locate her mother, Banalata Das, with a tight deadline ahead.
 

NEW DELHI: A young Spanish woman is on a search for her biological mother in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar before returning to Spain on Monday.

With minimal information about her background, 21-year-old Sneha, who researches children's education, travelled to India to discover her origins. Her adoptive Spanish parents, Gema Vidal and Juan Josh, backed her decision, with Gema joining her journey to her native state. The couple had adopted Sneha and her brother Somu in 2010 from a Bhubaneswar orphanage, where they lived after their mother Banalata Das left them in 2005.

“The purpose of my journey from Spain to Bhubaneswar is to find my biological parents, especially my mother. I want to find her and meet her. I am fully prepared for the journey even if it is difficult,” Sneha told PTI.

When questioned about confronting her biological mother about the abandonment, Sneha remained silent. She was just over one year old, whilst her brother was only months old when it happened.

Sneha and her brother were adopted by Spanish couple in 2010 from an orphanage in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, after their biological mother abandoned them.

A Spanish woman is in India in search of her biological mother who had allegedly abandoned her along with her brother 20 year ago. However, the 21-year old woman only has a day left until she returns to Spain for her educational commitments.
Sneha Enrique Vidal, left, a 21-year-old girl from Spain who was adopted as a child from Odisha by a Spanish couple and has now returned to Bhubaneswar to find her biological parents. (PTI)

Sneha and her brother Somu were adopted by Spanish couple Gema Vidal and Juan Josh in 2010 from an orphanage in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, their home state, according to news agency PTI.

The siblings were sheltered at the orphanage after their mother, Banalata Das, abandoned them in 2005.

Adoptees return to Nepal to find a society that no longer recognises them, legally or socially

Between the 1980s and 2000s, over 5,000 Nepali children were adopted abroad, primarily to the United States, France, and Spain. While international adoption was intended to provide vulnerable children with better opportunities, child trafficking and irregular practices prompted Nepal to suspend adoptions in 2007, and overhaul its policies.

By 2010, stricter regulations aligned with the Hague Adoption Convention drastically reduced adoption numbers. Today, many of these children, now adults, are returning to Nepal in search of their roots, only to encounter a society that no longer recognises them, legally or socially.

Behind the statistics lie the deeply personal and emotional journey of adoptees returning to reconnect with their past, seek family, and rediscover a sense of belonging. These stories reflect a broader struggle for identity and the complexities of bridging two worlds.

Switzerland is under scrutiny for fraudulently rehoming thousands of babies. The failures go back further than previously understood

When Paul Harwood, a founding member of the Central Intelligence Agency, relocated to Paris from Vietnam, he was keen to expand his family. It was 1961, the Berlin Wall was about to go up and Europe was embroiled in a Cold War crisis, keeping Harwood and his fellow agents on their toes. But besides his undercover work at the U.S. Embassy, Harwood was on a more personal mission: He and his wife, Mary Ellen, were trying to adopt a baby girl. 

They ended up using an agency run by a Swiss welfare worker named Alice Honegger. Harwood welcomed her assistant to his apartment on the top floor of an older house in central Paris. A staircase led up to a room ready for a child, reachable via a gallery and complete with its own bathroom. 

“Mr. and Mrs. Harwood are extremely likable people, kind, very calm, and I don’t see them as typical Americans at all,” reads the report she wrote for Honegger in St. Gallen, a canton in the country’s northeast near the blue-green waters of Lake Constance. “They are both of medium height, with brown eyes and brown hair.” The Harwoods wanted a girl to complement the little boy they had previously adopted in the United States. 

On Aug. 2, 1962, the couple received a letter from Honegger’s agency with the news they had spent years agonizingly waiting for: a “very handsome” little girl of Italian nationality who was a perfect match for them, with the same color of hair and eyes. She added that the child’s expatriation papers were still missing but assured the new parents she would urge the birth mother and the Italian authorities to send what was necessary.