Carl Smith

Advocate for Adoptee Rights and Justice for Victims Impacted by Predatory Practices. Fight For What's Right and Your World Will Change. More on IG @decsmith50.

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Eight South Korean-born adoptees are suing Denmark for its role in their illegal adoptions decades ago, demanding the state admit responsibility for covering up their origins. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees
https://t.co/Byn2CArvI0

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Dozens of Korean adoptees recently gathered to leave their names on a wall at a former U.S. military base, hoping that, after decades, a birth mother might still be looking for them. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees
https://t.co/VzCSamWasn

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Ripped from families for not being ‘Korean enough,’ mixed-race adoptees seek truth and justice. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #justiceforadoptees https://t.co/KXNynSITrX

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Jennifer Arndt-Jones, 52, known by her Korean name Joo Yang-hee, is searching for her birth family in Miryang. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #searchforthetruth
https://t.co/wcp3KpAHzm

[KCTV5 News @KCTV5]

State agencies that pay to send kids there have questioned its operations, training and transparency.

STORY >>> https://t.co/XooH6dBdOA

[The Associated Press @AP]

For the first time since he was an infant, Kyle Adler boarded a plane in February to meet his birth mother. The 36-year-old Chilean American, who was taken from her at nine months old and adopted by a U.S. family in 1990, is one of thousands who were illegally adopted during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Their reunion was years in the making thanks to DNA tracing and organizations that are helping Chilean adoptees investigate their pasts.

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Takeaways from inside a teen treatment center for adoptees, funded by taxpayers: runaways, assaults. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adopteetrauma https://t.co/Qo7wbYbF5t

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Knowing your family medical history is vital for adoptees. It allows doctors to assess predispositions to hereditary diseases enabling life-saving early screenings and preventive treatments. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #medicalhistory
https://t.co/RRGzj4nAKQ

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Online genetic testing kits are often given as gifts, which means people often aren't prepared to uncover family secrets. #adopted #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #dnadiscovery
https://t.co/luvmANuA0m

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Kyle Adler’s discovery that he was stolen from his Chilean mother as a baby came as a shock, sparking an identity crisis that lasted years and led to a reunion with his biological mother earlier this year. #adoption #adopteevoices #stolenchildren
https://t.co/7yKpeXOeE8

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Paige Towers’s new book ‘What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption’ takes a searing look at international adoption. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #stolenchildren
https://t.co/N0ZCLF6dTG

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

MP, Senator is calling for the Canadian government to apologize for its role in supporting the practice of forced adoptions. #adoption #forcedadoption #birthmothers #adopteevoices #stolenchildren
https://t.co/BOMZ7PHy2w

[Yungskie @YungFierens]

België veroordeeld voor weghalen van metissenkinderen bij hun moeders in koloniaal Congo: "Primeur in Europa";

Proficiat aan deze moedige vrouwen. Tijd dat de Belgische staat haar verantwoordelijkheid neemt in de illegale adoptieschandalen.

https://t.co/gdwXsQRyTj

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Costa Rica’s child welfare agency has launched a historic and comprehensive review of 101 international child adoption cases involving Costa Rican children who were illegally sent to Norway. #adoption #adopteevoices #stolenchildren #childtrafficking
https://t.co/0m0H5a6nS3

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Churches acknowledge suffering of forced adoptions, but won’t apologize. #adoption #forcedadoption #stolenchildren #birthmothers https://t.co/iJItCVNgPB

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

@YungFierens The fear of replacement stems from a deep-seated anxiety about being displaced or deemed "secondary" parents.

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Adoptive parents often fear their child will seek out biological parents and choose them instead; adoptees who wait for years to open their file, says the search is not for replacement, but for answers. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights
https://t.co/SorvEDeWCU

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

ITV News has heard heartbreaking testimony from survivors about the racism they endured, and how it has affected their whole lives. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #forcedadoption #racism
https://t.co/UpV5UnBJaD

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

For nearly 30 years, a group has helped adoptees from Korea and other countries connect with their community. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees
https://t.co/z3cT76W4kT

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

“This is not #surrogacy gone awry,” Katy Faust, founder of ⁦@ThemBeforeUs⁩, told me. “This is surrogacy as planned: the point is to deliver a custom-order product in a marketplace for adults. Of course you’re going to get these dystopian scenarios.” https://t.co/b8KkFkcLj2