On the way home today, I heard a story about adoption in Korea. It was on NPR. They have created a law in Korea that says that parents giving kids up for an adoption must sign a registry. Due to the stigma attached with the process, people are starting to abandon the children at a higher rate. According to the story, people in Korea do not like to adopt children that they do not know their family history. If they do adopt, the mother to be hides a pillow to look pregnant and then a few days later the adopted child is brought out. Korea is really strict about adopting outside of the country. I think it is sad. It is the children who are punished the most. The same thing happens in China. I read a story where China was going to stop giving orphans certain sir names. Those names identified the children as being an orphan through their life.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/09/09/346851939/in-korea-adoptees-fight-to-change-culture-that-sent-them-overseas
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