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]

Can white parents raising Black children fully prepare them for the realities of racism, identity and belonging? #adoption #adopteevoices #transracialadoption #transracialadoptees
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

An ICE voter fraud crackdown in Syracuse has targeted 66-year-old Marva Cook, who recently discovered she was foreign-born and adopted. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #citizenship #citizenship4adoptees
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

This decision effectively leaves the child in the custody of a U.S. Marine and his wife, bypassing years of legal challenges from the girl's surviving Afghan relatives who sought her return. 🤮

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

The Supreme Court declined to hear a highly contested appeal regarding the adoption of an Afghan child who was orphaned during a 2019 military raid. #adoption #forcedadoption #illegaladoption #stolenchildren #adoptiontrafficking
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

On Monday, October 19, 2026, South Korean First Lady Kim Hye-kyung made history as the first presidential spouse to attend a Korean adoptee gathering. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #birthfamilysearch
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Around 40 Greek adoptees from the US have returned to Greece to explore their heritage, reconnect with their biological families and reclaim parts of their identities lost to international adoptions decades ago.
#adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights
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[Yungskie @YungFierens]

Wat geadopteerden te lijden hebben. 3,5j kost het deze geadopteerde om controle en zeggenschap te krijgen over haar eigen, privacygevoelige gegevens in haar eigen adoptiedossier waarover de staat en adoptiediensten mogen beschikken. Geen enkele andere

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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

A report has revealed that while the average #privateadoption cost in Utah dropped slightly to just under $60,000 over the last fiscal year, the maximum amount paid for a single adoption skyrocketed to an unprecedented upper limit of $160,000. #adoption
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

This article highlights the systemic struggles of adopted children in North Macedonia who are trying to uncover their biological origins.
#adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adultadoptees #birthfamilysearch
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Do you know your family medical history? For hundreds of thousands of care-experienced people and adoptees like Aaliyah, the answer isn’t always straightforward. #adoption #adopteevoices #adopteerights #adopteejourney #medicalrecords #adopteelife
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Mia Lee Sørensen’s documentary Home Sick: At the End of the Sea, which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival, explores the systemic falsification of adoption records in South Korea. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoptees #stolenchildren
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

For some, surrogacy is a form of baby selling that should not be allowed. For others, it is a way for intended parents to create families and for surrogates to support them. #surrogacy #surrogacymarket #surrogacylaws #surrogatemothers #sorrogateagencies
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

It has been three months since the children at the center of a surrogacy case on the First Coast were taken to California. #surrogacy #surrogacymarket #surrogacylaws #surrogatemother #exploitationofwoman #whatamess
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

Professional wrestler Ric Flair wrote in his autobiography that he was adopted through the Tenn Children's Home Society, the black-market adoption agency operated by Georgia Tann. #adoption #blackmarketadoption #childtrafficking #stolenchildren
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[CBS News @CBSNews]

A California couple at the center of a surrogacy scandal has been arrested months after authorities removed 21 children, most born through surrogacy, from their mansion.

Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang face multiple charges, including conspiracy to commit child abuse and dissuading a witness. Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman called the allegations “incredibly disturbing,” saying they involve beatings and other alleged abuse. Both pleaded not guilty and are being held on $20 million bond each.

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[Jonathan Tranter @jonathantranter]

“Experts report many babies may not have needed to go into care if support had been in place. As very young children in care are more likely to be adopted than older children, some may have been permanently removed from their birth families unnecessarily” https://t.co/27wVJB9bvZ

[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

The interview profiles Emmy Award-winning documentarian Deann Borshay Liem, whose personal experience as an overseas Korean adoptee deeply anchors her investigative filmmaking. #adoption #adopteevoices #koreanadoption #koreanadoptees #overseasadoption
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

A BBC investigation by File on 4 reveals a surge in babies entering care proceedings, sparking widespread concern among experts that many infants are being permanently and unnecessarily separated from their birth families.
#adoption #forcedadoption
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[Carl Smith @decsmith50]

The highly publicized fertility fraud and human trafficking trial involving the Mediterranean Fertility Institute in Chania, Crete, has directly impacted dozens of families who sought overseas surrogacy. #surrogacy #surrogacymarket #humantrafficking
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