Do you remember Amy? Now the girl who shook the adoption system is back
Ten years ago, Denmark was shocked by the story of the adoption child Amy. A new documentary shows how it went since the girl who never really fell. But the film is strongest when it also dares to show that we may not always be able to return to what we come from.
What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family!
The quote, which I saw on a friend's bulletin board, remembered me under the new documentary about Amy Steen, who, against her will, was adopted to Denmark as a 9-year-old. For, of course, it is beautiful to begin world peace by loving the people who brought us here. But it's never that simple.
Amy Steen was born in Ethiopia, but adopted as the biological mother thought she was going to die from AIDS. In Denmark, an adoptive family was ready, but the match was never good, and in time Amy moved to a foster family. It was from here she was removed in 2012, because the adoptive family thought it was best with more "professional frames". I never think I forget the pictures of the pixelated officials holding the screaming and fighting child from the "Adoption Prize".