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International adoption's rise, corruption, and 95% collapse. In a single generation, U.S. intercountry adoption fell from nearly 23,000 children a year to barely a thousand — dismantled country by country by bans, trafficking scandals, and a generation of grown adoptees asking who had actually been saved. This ReThink History series follows the whole arc, from the Korean War pipeline that invented the system to China, Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Russia, through the evangelical orphan-theology boom and the Hague Convention, asking one organizing question: when does saving a child become buying one? Told evenhandedly and grounded in the record. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.
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For seventy years the world heard the rescue story; this finale hands the microphone to the people it was told about. Adult international adoptees — now scholars, lawyers, and organizers — have built a movement that refr
The 1993 Hague Adoption Convention was meant to end the 'Wild West' of intercountry adoption — building central authorities, accredited agencies, and anti-trafficking safeguards into a system that had moved children acro
For two decades Russia was the second-largest source of children adopted by Americans — more than 60,000 between 1991 and 2013. Then, in December 2012, the Kremlin slammed the door, banning U.S. adoptions overnight as di
In the 2000s, a loose constellation of American evangelical leaders rebranded adoption as a Biblical mandate — 'orphan theology' — and turned it into a mass movement that re-energized international adoption just as it wa
After Guatemala's pipeline collapsed in 2008, Western demand did not disappear — it migrated. It found Ethiopia: desperately poor, full of young children, not bound by the Hague Convention, and with short waiting times.
Between 1977 and 2007, Guatemala became the only country on earth to fully privatize adoption, letting private lawyers and notaries match children to foreign families for a fee with virtually no judicial oversight. At it
For three decades China was the single largest source of children adopted to the United States — roughly 82,000 between 1999 and 2023, the great majority of them girls 'abandoned' under the one-child policy. The story Am
International adoption is usually told as a story about supply. This episode flips it: the engine was American demand. Three forces converged — a fertility squeeze that priced and waited many families out of biological c
Modern intercountry adoption was not born in a maternity ward but on a Cold War battlefield. After the Korean War, a coalition — an Oregon evangelical farmer, a Nobel-winning novelist, U.S. immigration loopholes, and a K
In fiscal year 2004, American families adopted 22,988 children from abroad — the high-water mark of a movement born of the Korean War and powered by humanitarian feeling, evangelical conviction, and infertility. Twenty y
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