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#adoption

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Holly

#cat #adoption #spiffy #Oklahoma

"You get people that say, 'Why are you letting this cat live?' And I have to kind of settle down a little bit and say, well, because this cat wanted to live, you know, and if we had the means to do it, why can't we do that?"

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'This cat wanted to live:' Terlton cat survives wildfires
www.news9.com · 'This cat wanted to live:' Terlton cat survives wildfiresBy Sam Carrico
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"South Korea on Wednesday admitted for the first time that in its rush to send children to American and European homes decades ago, its adoption agencies committed widespread malpractices, including falsifying documents​, to make them more adoptable​."

🎁: nytimes.com/2025/03/26/world/a

Sun-young Park, the chairwoman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, comforts an adoptee, Yooree Kim, on Wednesday after delivering the findings of the agency’s investigation into South Korea’s decades of adoption malpractices.
The New York Times · South Korea, World’s Largest ‘Baby Exporter,’ Admits to Adoption FraudBy Choe Sang-Hun
#aapi#aanhpi#SouthKorea
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𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕

»GenAI – Firmen investieren ohne Plan:
Eine aktuelle Studie der TU Darmstadt und Campana & Schott zeigt - GenAI wird meist ohne das nötige Adoption & Change Management eingeführt.«

Last mich raten, die Chefs haben häufig von der IT inhaltlich selten eine Ahnung. Aus Angst was zu verpassen lassen die sich öfters gläubig abzocken. Zugegeben, dies ist extrem dargestellt aber wie gibt es immer wieder solche Trends?

🙄 computerwoche.de/article/38564

ComputerwocheGenAI: Firmen investieren ohne PlanEine aktuelle Studie der TU Darmstadt und Campana & Schott zeigt: GenAI wird meist ohne das nötige Adoption & Change Management eingeführt.
#dach#genai#adoption
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CBC World

South Korea committed rights violations during overseas adoptions, truth commission finds
South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like "luggage" for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents, and sending alternative babies when infants had died before heading overseas, a truth commission has said.
#adoption #humanrights #investigation #SouthKorea #News #World
cbc.ca/news/world/south-korea-

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Tony Corsentino :bongoCat:

we who live in “receiving countries” for intercountry adoption embrace the saviorist belief that #adoption rescues orphans. I am leading a book-group discussion of THE KITE RUNNER, a novel whose second half narrates the protagonist’s effort to overcome bureaucratic red tape and bring an orphan out of Afghanistan for adoption into his family in the US, the world’s largest receiving country. In fact, orphanhood is often a lie. Some intercountry adoptees call themselves “paper orphans.”

The commission identified many cases where the identities and family information of children were "lost, falsified or fabricated" and where children were sent abroad without legal consent. It cited the case of a baby girl it identified only by her last name, Chang, who was born in Seoul in 1974. Her adoption agency in Seoul knew her mother's identity. But in the documents it sent to her adoptive family in Denmark, the agency said the girl came from an orphanage.
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Tony Corsentino :bongoCat:

and of course the United States of America, the country that invented the #adoption industry and perfected the legal framework for trafficking babies into the eager arms of adopters, will conduct no serious investigation into these human-rights crimes.

Nor would it under a “progressive” government.

The findings carry repercussions beyond South Korea, as several receiving countries - including Norway and Denmark - have opened investigations into their international adoptions. The United States, which has received more children from South Korea than any other country, has not done so.
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Tony Corsentino :bongoCat:

it’s not without reason that one of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, who fought for the return of their grandchildren stolen by the Argentine junta and handed out as gifts to adopters during the “dirty war,” called intercountry #adoption an “abomination.”

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Tony Corsentino :bongoCat:

what was true to a horrifically extreme degree in postwar Korea is true of adoption generally: it is a privatized alternative to the provision of social welfare for vulnerable and resourceless pregnant people.

#adoption is a way that society turns its back on these people.

In its destitute postwar decades, South Korea promoted overseas adoptions to find homes for orphaned, abandoned or disabled children abroad rather than build a welfare system for them at home. The government left it to the adoption agencies to find and ship children abroad for fees from adoptive families.
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CBC Calgary

New benefit limits would make it harder for some Alberta families to adopt, advocates say
Adoption advocates are warning a provincial government move to income test some benefits could deprive children of essential therapies and prevent parents from adopting children.
#adoption #family #government #policy #Alberta #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ne

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CBC Edmonton

Alberta budget bill cancels planned benefits for adopted children, changes legal aid funding
The Alberta government is backing away from a program that would have provided dental, optical and other health benefits for adopted children.
#politics #budget #adoption #law #Alberta #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al

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Wuzzy

Ignorant people say the #rainbow flag for #LGBTQ #Pride is “obsolete” in their nation because same-sex #marriage is legal.

Nothing could be further from the truth! While marriage is a big milestone, it is NOT the only one.

Even in “liberal” nations, some LEGAL discrimations still exist, like:

🚫 Blood donation bans
🚫 Deny existence of #NonBinary ppl
🚫 Ban #trans ppl from public life and/or #healthcare
🚫 Deny #adoption rights
🚫 #Intersex genital mutiliation

equaldex.com/

An LGBTQ+ Pride flag (rainbow flag) against a blue sky.
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Austin Animal Center Bot

Cat alert! Mr. Scrungles is a 2 years Unknown Black/White Domestic Shorthair.
They were found near 7901 Metropolis Drive in Austin (TX) at 01:42:00 PM 2025-03-04.

Intake Type: Stray
Intake Condition: Normal
ID: A926035

They are now at the Austin Animal Center - If unclaimed, the animal will be available for adoption in 3 days.

#adopt#adoption#animals
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