After a nearly three-year investigation, the commission concluded in March that the state bears responsibility for facilitating an adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs. It urged the government to issue an apology and develop plans to address adoptees’ grievances.
These acts, including convincing pregnant teenagers to give up their baby, wasn’t just to reduce welfare, they were very profitable. Adoption fees were pretty high.
There were clear limitations to the commission’s report, which didn’t thoroughly examine the profit structures of adoption agencies, their links to child sources like hospitals, or receiving countries’ practices.
The money is where the investigation should have started.
Peter Moller, who was adopted from South Korea to Denmark before the enactment of such a law in 1974, claims that his parents had spent a total of 15-thousand dollars in adoption fees.
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The article said they have been working on this deal since 1999. Does the United States aggressive tariffs have anything to do with getting this to this new level?