Another India case has come up in the news again. It seems that the India adoptee counter parts are stepping up more and more these days. This is the second article in the last week about adoptees wanting access to their records in foreign countries. It puts the spotlight on irregular adoptions.  In this case, the adoption records have gone missing.  I wrote about another case on my Coleman Moms and Babes blog recently. 

I find it courageous and empowering that many of these international adoptees are stepping up.  It is absolutely awesome that they are standing up for their rights.  It puts the high beam on unethical agencies both in the United States as well as other countries, both sending and receiving.  Sadly all of this will go nowhere until the most powerful people stop and realize that we are ignoring the traded merchandise are in fact humans.  We must all take responsibility.  We all have to step up and support each other. 

Recently a new installer was hired.  I found out that he was from Guatemala.  I told him that I got knee deep in the craziness of Guatemalan adoptions.  I asked him about the circumstances in that country.  He told me that Americans were in fact baby buying from adoption agencies who were stealing children from their parents.  I thought that was really interesting.  Here is a man from that country telling me this.  I told him about a couple of the mothers who had their children who were going on hunger strikes until their children were returned. 

We have to stop and realize what we are doing to future adoptees.  What happened in the sixties and the seventies is repeating itself in other countries.  We must put a stop to it.