The Schuster Institute
for Investigative Journalism

"The Lie We Love," Nov./Dec. 2008, Foreign Policy magazine.

• “Where do babies come from? A country-by-country map of reported adoption irregularities

• "The Orphan Trade: A look at families affected by corrupt international adoptions," Slate.com, May 8, 2009

• "The Adoption Underworld," The Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2009

• Awards for "The Lie We Love"

  • "The orphan manufacturing chain," The Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2009

  • "Out of Cambodia," The Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2009

The Intercountry Adoption Universal Accreditation Act of 2012

"Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis," September 12, 2010, ForeignPolicy.com

• Map: Geography of an Adoption Crisis

• Experts respond
  to "Anatomy of an
  Adoption Crisis"   
  

• Primary sources: U.S. government documents, 2007-2008 (obtained via Freedom of Information Act)

• Startling quotes from released documents

• By province: References to adoption problems

• Denying an orphan visa: USCIS appeals

• Visa denied: The story of one family

• U.S.-VN Memorandum of Agreement, 2005

• U.S. Department of State: Vietnam adoption notices

• Licensed adoption agencies listed by province, 2006-2008

• Adoption agencies licensed to work in Vietnam, 2006-2008

• Orphaned or Stolen? The U.S. State Dept. investigates adoption from Nepal, 2006-2008

• "Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth," Erin Siegal McIntyre, May 8, 2012, Beacon Press.
• "The U.S. Embassy Cables: Adoption Fraud in Guatemala, 1987-2010," Erin Siegal McIntyre, February 1, 2012, Cathexis Press. Read excerpts>
  
  
• Guatemala Court Revokes Passport, Asks for Return of Child Karen Abigail 
  
  
• "The Limits of Jurisdiction," Erin Seigal McIntyre, December 1, 2014, Guernica Magazine.

• The Makeni Children
  
  
• The Stolen Makeni Children

• Officials Review International Adoption in Ethiopia
  
  
  • Table of contents of documents received from the U.S. Embassy, Addis Ababa, 2000-2013
  
  
  • Index of U.S. adoption agencies and orphanages mentioned in U.S. Embassy documents
  
  
  • U.S. adoption agencies in Ethiopia respond to U.S. Embassy documents in which they are mentioned
  
  
  • Joint Council public response to FOIA'ed documents and article "They Steal Babies Don't They"

• "Adopting new standards on adoption," "Comment is Free," Guardian.co.uk, Sept. 10, 2010.

• "Preventing Adoption Disasters," The Boston Globe, April 17, 2010.

• The New York Times "Room for Debate""Haiti's Children and the Adoption Question," with commentary by E.J. Graff and other prominent experts, Feb. 1, 2010.

• "The Seamier Side of International Adoption," The New York Times Opinion Blog, May 10, 2009.

• "The problem with saving the world's 'orphans'," The Boston Globe, Dec. 11, 2008.

"The Baby Business," Summer 2010, Democracy Journal.

• "The Baby Business" with footnotes

• Experts respond
  to "The Baby Business"

• Policy proposals for
  fairer international
  adoption practice

• Key documents:
  Hague regulationSpecific regulation changes

  • How much does it cost?

• Cash required: Bad practice

• “Where do babies come from?”: country-by-country map of reported adoption irregularities

• Map: Geography of an Adoption Crisis

• Capsule history of international adoption

• UNICEF's orphan statistics explained

• Experts respond to
  "Anatomy of an Adoption Crisis"

• Experts respond
  to "The Baby Business"  

• Reader responses
  to "The Baby Business"

• Reader responses to
  "The Lie We Love"

• The orphan myth:
  Responses to criticisms

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