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Tag: Child Abandonment

World

China Stops Foreign Adoptions, Ending a Complicated Chapter

September 6, 2024September 6, 2024Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu WangComments Off on China Stops Foreign Adoptions, Ending a Complicated Chapter

Beijing said the move was in line with international trends, as more countries have limited such adoptions. Many would-be adoptive families were left in limbo.

World

A Chinese Celebrity Scandal Puts Surrogate Births on Trial

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and CAO LIComments Off on A Chinese Celebrity Scandal Puts Surrogate Births on Trial

The state news media excoriated an actress accused of abandoning babies born in the United States. Others say China’s limits on reproductive techniques at home are outdated.

World

Qatar Charges Airport Police After Female Passengers Are Strip-Searched

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020Yan ZhuangComments Off on Qatar Charges Airport Police After Female Passengers Are Strip-Searched

Officials also said they had identified the mother of a baby abandoned at the airport, and that they were seeking to extradite her and charge her with attempted murder.

World

Qatar ‘Regrets’ Strip-Searches Over Abandoned Baby

October 28, 2020October 28, 2020Elaine Yu, Mike Ives and Livia Albeck-RipkaComments Off on Qatar ‘Regrets’ Strip-Searches Over Abandoned Baby

Women were pulled from multiple flights and strip-searched, the Australian government said, after a newborn baby was found in an airport restroom.

World

Korean Adoptee Wins Landmark Case in Search for Birth Parents

June 12, 2020CHOE SANG-HUNComments Off on Korean Adoptee Wins Landmark Case in Search for Birth Parents

In the first verdict of its kind, a South Korean court has ruled that Kara Bos, an American, is a daughter of an 85-year-old man in Seoul.

World

​‘Tell Me Who My Mother Is’: A Korean Adoptee Seeks Her Roots

June 2, 2020June 2, 2020CHOE SANG-HUNComments Off on ​‘Tell Me Who My Mother Is’: A Korean Adoptee Seeks Her Roots

Armed with DNA test results, Kara Bos is asking a South Korean court to rule that an 85-year-old man in Seoul is her father. Her paternity lawsuit could set a precedent for overseas adoptees.

World

U.N. Peacekeepers in Haiti Said to Have Fathered Hundreds of Children

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019ELIAN PELTIERComments Off on U.N. Peacekeepers in Haiti Said to Have Fathered Hundreds of Children

Women and girls were left behind to face poverty, social stigma and single motherhood in the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

World

Kay Ann Johnson, 73, Who Studied China’s One-Child Policy, Dies

August 29, 2019August 30, 2019RICHARD SANDOMIRComments Off on Kay Ann Johnson, 73, Who Studied China’s One-Child Policy, Dies

After adopting an abandoned infant from an orphanage in China, she began researching the lives of birth parents who had been forced to give up their children.

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