roughly half of those adoptees are in the us. and about a tenth of us were placed in minnesota. roughly half of the korean adoptees worldwide were placed by holt (one of four big agencies in korea) that was started by an evangelical family who took in eight babies and changing laws for all of us
“The Korean adoptee diaspora of around 200,000 children is thought to be the largest in the world. At the peak in the 1970s and ‘80s, South Korea was sending out babies by the hundreds per month.” apnews.com/article/sout...
Western governments ignored widespread fraud in South Korean adoptions and sometimes pressured the country to keep the kids coming, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found.
when I tell you recording this #KeepingIt101 series on religion and adoption broke something in me...
anyway here is a tiny thread of some cool media made by korean adoptees. I may add to it later, but for now if you’d like more first-hand accounts please check them out
Nor should anyone.
imagine explaining uncrustables
sometimes when I watch the news I think: Howard Dean lost the right to even be in the primaries because he YAAAAH’ed too big. how far we’ve come, yknow?
ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is holding a microphone in front of a crowd and yelling .
I hate everything
The Ohio State Highway Patrol will send 36 "field force" members to sweep Springfield City Schools each morning before classes and to stay around during school and dismissal so that schools can remain open
Springfield City Schools will stay open the rest of this week with increased safety measures, rather than closing school buildings as they’ve done in recent days when they received non-credible bomb t...
Cool, Ohio's Republican secretary of state is banning the translation of voter-registration forms into languages if they're spoken by disfavored minorities www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/voter-...
Voter registration form translated into language spoken by Haitian migrants prompts LaRose warning to county boards of election to be vigilant in not accepting illegal voter registration forms