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The crying shame of South Korea’s adoption scandal for Australia

Labor has promised an in-house investigation into Australia-Korea adoptions, but it needs the heft of a parliamentary inquiry.

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Australian-Korean adoptees have been calling for a national inquiry into what authorities knew about the ethical and legal issues plaguing the Eastern Social Welfare Society, which facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

Did Australia know? South Korean adoptees demand answers over global scandal

Labor has promised, if re-elected, to investigate concerns about the program that facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

  • Lisa Visentin
Rows of babies waiting for overseas adoption in 1984 at the Angel Babies’ Home orphanage.

Josie was handed two Korean toddlers at the airport. They sobbed ‘mummy’ the whole way to Australia

The former social worker says she is horrified by what she was asked to do in 1984 and is calling for an inquiry into Australia’s overseas adoption practices.

  • Lisa Visentin
Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins with mum Robyn.

‘It was surreal’: Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins’ search for her birth parents

The Wiggles’ youngest member opens up about her return to her birthplace in Ethiopia for the first time ever last year.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
For Chae Ryan, 33, the search for his Korean identity has been a harrowing journey. The South Korean agency that facilitated his adoption to Australia in 1991 is now at the centre of damning inquiry into widespread fraud and malpractice in the country’s adoption system.

‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.

  • Lisa Visentin
Children are among the biggest victims in eastern Ukraine. Photos supplied by UNICEF.

Putin’s planes took away Ukrainian children for ‘Russification’: report

Forcible transfer is a crime against humanity under international law, but the Yale report says a Kremlin-led program took at least 314 children.

  • Anthony Deutsch
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The author (left) with her sister, Maddie and brother, Mark.

My older brother was a stranger for most of my life. Now he’s a huge part of it

Is it possible to bond with a sibling without a shared past? It turns out it is.

  • Genevieve Quigley
Eileen Mansfield in her eighties with (from left) the author’s sister, Madeleine Carlyle, the author, Rose Carlyle, and her brother, David Carlyle, circa 1993.

At 13, Eileen was abandoned by her mother, but she would go on to beat the odds

My grandmother was sent away by the woman who should have protected her, but it didn’t stop her creating a life filled with love.

  • Rose Carlyle

In Ashlee’s childhood of drug deals and violence, Grandma’s home was a safe haven

Marita fought her addict daughter for years for custody of her granddaughter, Ashlee.

  • Melissa Fyfe

Death threats, stalking, dead flowers: My foster siblings’ parents must be in town

Religious zealots, kidnapping, jail and a Hollywood ex … how the love of salt-of-the-earth parents turned a crazy upbringing into something special.

  • Lech Blaine

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/adoption---fostering-1mwj