Adoption
June 2024
May 2024
The Audio Long ReadGuatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption – podcastFrom the 1960s, baby brokers persuaded often Indigenous Mayan women to give up newborns while kidnappers ‘disappeared’ babies. Now, international adoption is being called out as a way of covering up war crimes. By Rachel Nolan
‘We were all going through traumas under one roof’: the drag queen adoption drama inspired by real life
Daf James’s life was upended when he and his husband adopted three kids – and he knew he had to write about it. As Lost Boys & Fairies hits the screen, the writer and cast talk about queer lives, Welshness and what makes a family click
April 2024
February 2024
January 2024
Bangladesh: the adoption crisisThe stranger across from me was my sister: how one adoptee uncovered a tragic pastA Dutch group that reunites children with their birth parents in Bangladesh is fighting to change the international adoption systemRead more: Bangladesh launches investigation into children ‘wrongly’ adopted overseas
Bangladesh: the adoption crisis‘I was told I could visit. Then she went missing’: the Bangladeshi mothers who say their children were adopted without consentWomen living in camps for refugees of Bangladesh’s war of independence were told a local care home would look after their children. Decades on, many are still searching for them
