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Trud story

    This article was sent to us as a scanned PDF file, making it impossible to print out and translate for some time due to the limited memory capacity of a decade-old printer. If you want the originals, email us until we get some sort of document archive up and running.

    However, it is about the most comprehensive accounting of the scandal we could find in any Bulgarian online media outlet. It contains some interesting information not repeated anywhere else — perhaps the reason it has never appeared in English until now. Also, by translating it ourselves, as native English speakers we were able to render it into smoother, more natural prose, as opposed to the often-fractured parsings found on web sites like Bulgaria Online.

    A little necessary background information is in order: Trud, like many European newspapers, doesn’t really pretend towards impartial news coverage. In other words, it has an agenda.

Often criminal organisations are behind illegal adoptions, facilitating contacts between customers from the MS and institutions in origin countries, taking care of forgery of documents and corruption of officials.

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FRONTLINE MAGAZINE

(Madras, India)

May 25, 2001, pp. 35-37

Copyright (c) 2001, Frontline. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.

CHILDREN AS COMMODITIES

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May 10, 2001 -- Barbara Walters used to find it painful to walk through a toy store.

More than 30 years ago, she and her husband, Lee Guber, wanted desperately to have children.

After Walters had three miscarriages, the couple decided to adopt a baby girl they named Jackie. Having a child, says Walters, "made her life complete."

Over the years, Walters discovered there were many others inside the ABC community who have made the decision to adopt, including weekend anchor Carole Simpson and former ABCNEWS correspondent Connie Chung, as well as talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell.

These parents and some of their children speak out about adoption and how it has changed their lives in an ABCNEWS special called Born in My Heart: A Love Story.

Adoption fulfils two of man's deepest needs - the craving for parenthood and a child's desire to belong.

Add to that the pressures of the 21st century and it is not surprising that Indian children are increasingly being adopted by the richest countries. Inter-country adoption, in fact, is a highly profitable business.

In the US and Denmark, the number of Indian children being adopted has grown in the past few years. In 1999-2000, the traffic to the US more than doubled and increased by a third to Denmark.

Since 1969, 15 per cent of adoptions by the Swedish agency Adoptions Centrum were from India. India follows Colombia and Philippines in the number of children being adopted by Norwegians since 1972.

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NEW LIVES: Indian children adapt wellAdoption fulfils two of man's deepest needs - the craving for parenthood and a child's desire to belong.

Add to that the pressures of the 21st century and it is not surprising that Indian children are increasingly being adopted by the richest countries. Inter-country adoption, in fact, is a highly profitable business.

In the US and Denmark, the number of Indian children being adopted has grown in the past few years. In 1999-2000, the traffic to the US more than doubled and increased by a third to Denmark.

Since 1969, 15 per cent of adoptions by the Swedish agency Adoptions Centrum were from India. India follows Colombia and Philippines in the number of children being adopted by Norwegians since 1972.

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