Current stories where adoption issues and policy are in the media are listed below, more current on top. We don’t catch them all, but if you’d like to call our attention to one please feel free to contact me at jean@adoptionparadox.com.
Many internationally adopted adults were never made naturalized citizens. Learn more from this NPR article here: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/g-s1-60166/trump-immigration-citizenship-deportation-adoptee-south-korea?
Missouri ponders a complicated bill that has been dubbed “eHarmony for babies”. Read the debate here: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/missouris-revamped-eharmony-for-babies-bill-government-overreach/63-dbb2f348-ad36-4085-90ab-429c4e4c4ca5
The state of Georgia became the 15th state to allow adoptees to access their birth certificates by voting to approve SB 100 on April 2, 2025: https://imprintnews.org/adoption/georgia-advocates-hope-to-ease-adoptees-access-to-their-original-birth-certificates/258295?
Switzerland is banning international adoptions: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/why-countries-are-banning-international-adoptions/88858045?
Here is a massive investigation about the practices in Korea, the birthplace of international adoptions into the US, and shows corruption and fraud were widespread: https://apnews.com/korea-adoption-series
