The Gujarat High Court recently paved way for the adoption and immigration process of twin children who had been adopted by their Australia-based uncle and his wife after the twins' mother had passed away.The Petitioners were facing difficulty as the State of Victoria, where they reside, was not accepting applications to adopt a child from India that are completed under the Hindu Adoptions...

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The video, widely shared on Facebook, shows a man scolding a young girl for locking her bedroom door, insisting it is “his house.” While the relationship between the two is unclear, the footage has sparked public outrage and drawn attention to deeper issues surrounding child protection.

The incident echoes findings which highlighted the plight of nearly 1,000 Samoan children adopted abroad each year. According to the report, some of these children have been subjected to forced labour, physical violence, and sexual abuse in the very homes meant to care for them.

Kris Teikamata, a frontline social worker with Oranga Tamariki in New Zealand, said she worked with multiple survivors between 2019 and 2024. Many described years of abuse and control.

“They were threatened, coerced and had no freedom,” Teikamata told the media in New Zealand. “By the time I met them at 17 or 18, they appeared emotionally withdrawn, as if they had lived decades of trauma.”

In some cases, children were promised education and better opportunities, but were instead forced into domestic labour from an early age. As teenagers, some were sent to work in factories, with wages withheld and limited contact with their families in Samoa.

Two Korean Americans from the Midwest, one from Minnesota and one from Chicago, are leading up a small organization with a big job.  The newly-formed U.S. Korean Rights Group (USKRG) is a group of Korean American adoptees who will dialogue with South Korean government as part of a global coalition of Korean adoptees from many countries.

The coalition has a common goal, to seek reconciliation and restitution from the South Korean government for widespread international adoption records fraud, and to change policies and laws in both the U.S. and South Korea that will streamline Korean adoptees’ access to their own adoption records in the future. 

As many as 200,000 adopted children who were born overseas are now at risk of detention or deportation by the Trump administration because they never received U.S. citizenship, lawyers say.

Over the past 80 years, American parents have adopted a total of more than 500,000 children from abroad — some kidnapped from their biological parents by unscrupulous adoption agencies.

But some of those parents never got around to actually obtaining citizenship for their children, leaving tens of thousands who have spent almost their entire lives in the U.S. but have no legal status.

"Most immigrants know from the very beginning what they have to do to gain legal status, but many adoptees have never questioned whether or not they have it, until now," Minnesota-based family law attorney Mónica Dooner Lindgren told The New York Times in a recent report shedding light on the problem.

According to the United States Department of State, intercountry adoptees are 3.6 times more likely to die by suicide than non-adopted peers. For transgender adoptees, that weight is more than fourteen times heavier. Since 1999, more than 6,800 Indian children have been adopted by American families. These are not just statistics. Almost no social science research exists on what becomes of them.

We conducted extended interviews with several Indian adoptees living in the United States and Europe—mostly women, with two men, between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-five. They are professionals, many raising families of their own. But each carries, beneath the surface of a functional life, a wound the rescue stories never accounted for.

They call themselves Indian in spite of being asked to shed it. The Indian identity is what they have spent their lives trying to reclaim.

“India Never Left My Body”

Rupa Ryan was two years old when she left India in 1985, adopted from the Green House orphanage in Patna and flown to Minneapolis. She traveled with a group of children from different parts of India—none familiar to her.

Newborn baby handed over to brother and sister-in-law after tampering with the Sadar Hospital register

Garhwa: An illegal adoption racket has been exposed at the Sadar Hospital in Garhwa. With the alleged collusion of hospital staff, babies were being handed over to childless couples without any legal process. A woman attempted to change names in the hospital records to give her newborn daughter to her brother and sister-in-law. An investigation into the matter is underway.

An alarming conspiracy to hand over a child to someone else has come to light at the Sadar Hospital. Legal adoption laws are being openly flouted, allegedly with the connivance of hospital employees. If childless couples or those desiring a specific child want a baby without going through the legal process, they simply need to contact an ANM (Auxiliary Nurse Midwife) working at the Sadar Hospital. Following this, an illegal path is cleared to hand over the newborn.

This recent case tied to the Sadar Hospital has become a major talking point, sending shockwaves through the hospital administration upon its disclosure. Notably, a case had emerged recently involving patients being referred from the Sadar Hospital to private hospitals in exchange for a commission of ₹5,000 per patient. Sub-Divisional Officer Sanjay Kumar had investigated that matter under the directives of the District Commissioner. Before that issue could even settle, this new scandal of flouting adoption laws surfaced.

Greater Noida: A 10-day-old premature baby girl was rescued by a Child Helpline (1098) team from an alleged illegal adoption racket operating out of a private hospital in Greater Noida West, officials said on Sunday. Four people, including the hospital owner and two staff members, have been detained, and an investigation is underway. The infant, born at 33 weeks, was abandoned at a private facility in the Bisrakh area earlier this month. She remained at the hospital, where she was allegedly offered for sale under the guise of adoption. The case surfaced when a man approached the Child Helpline office in Noida after receiving an “offer” for a newborn while searching online for legal adoption procedures. He told officials he was promised a baby for Rs 2.7 lakh along with forged documents, including a birth certificate. Authorities alerted the police and persuaded him to assist in a sting operation.

A joint team comprising the Child Helpline, Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU), Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and Bisrakh police laid a trap. On Saturday evening, the complainant met the suspects near Bisrakh roundabout. Two hospital employees, including a nurse, arrived with the infant, whereupon plainclothes officers intervened and detained them. Central Noida DCP Shakti Awasthi said the woman carrying the baby was apprehended around 4:30 pm. “During interrogation, the duo allegedly revealed they were acting on instructions from the hospital owner.” Police subsequently detained the owner, identified as Yashika Garg, along with two others — Gajendra, a sanitation worker, and Ranjit, an operation theatre technician. Police suspect a wider network, with preliminary inputs indicating similar transactions in the past, where infants were allegedly sold for up to Rs 5 lakh. Efforts are underway to trace the baby’s biological parents and ascertain the circumstances of her abandonment, the DCP added. The rescued infant has been shifted to a shelter facility under the CWC and is reported to be stable.

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Adopted to Australia in 1980, Vanessa returns to Taiwan in search of her roots—only to face a bureaucratic battle over citizenship, identity, and the truth behind a controversial cross-border adoption network.

In 1980, Vanessa Miles was adopted by an Australian family and taken from Taiwan as an infant. Decades later, in 2025, she returned to the island to submit her DNA, hoping to trace her origins and reunite with her birth mother. She believed that when she came back to Taipei this year, that long-awaited reunion might finally become possible.

Instead, she found herself confronting an unexpected and deeply personal crisis.

When Miles presented her long-expired Republic of China (Taiwan) passport—bearing an exit stamp from 1980—at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney, she was initially told a renewal would be straightforward. The clerk clipped a corner of the expired passport as part of standard procedure and asked her to return in a few days.

But when she did, the outcome was shocking: Taiwan’s Ministry of Interior had revoked her nationality.

Inside the Long, Winding Search for India’s Forgotten Adoptees

Amid a growing global community of adoptees revisiting their pasts, 32 inter-country adoptees filed applications with the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) in 2024–25 seeking to trace their biological parents, according to an RTI response obtained by TOI.

For a growing number of adults adopted abroad from India, that empty space has become impossible to ignore. Many of them—now in their 30s, 40s, and 50s—are returning to the country of their birth in search of answers their documents never held. These adoptees were part of hundreds sent abroad when India's adoption landscape was a patchwork of private shelters, under-regulated agencies, and inconsistent documentation. For them, the search is not only about identity—it is also about confronting the silence built into their early histories.

A Study Reopens What Was Long Buried

In February of last year, a study titled ‘Mother Unknown' cast new light on the scale and complexity of inter-country adoptions between India and Switzerland. Its findings revealed that 2,278 Indian children were adopted into Swiss families between 1973 and 2002.