US Adoption’s Dirty Little Secret: US Babies Exported Worldwide
America’s dirty little adoption secret (which one?) is out , but nobody is paying much attention. Last month the US Department of State issued the 2011 FY 2001 Annual Report on Intercountry Adoption. It’s only five pages long but full of “interesting” bick-a-brac Within the stats we learn than 73 US citizen children were adopted out of country; that is, they’ve, as State quaintly calls it,.”emigrated” to another country via adoption. The largest receiving country is Canada with 31; the second is the Netherlands with 27.. It gets better: the largest sending state is Florida with 49 little Floridians packing their diaper bags for other parts of the world, . The second largest sending state is South Carolina with 12–all heading for Canada.. These two states far outstrip other states in outgoing shipments. I got curious, so I went back and found reports for 2009 and 2010 and found even more alarming figures The number of American children removed, renamed, and remodeled abroad has more than quintupled in three years, from 26 in the 2009 report to142 in the 2011 report. (According to the 2009 report these figures go from October 1, 2008-September 30, 2009. The other reports don’t give Continue Reading →