Why we REALLY left our agency - part 2

From our research, we learned that our previous agency lies, cheats, and that many people have serious concerns about them being unethical. 

Every family I talked to had been lied to about their child's background.

They had been threatened if they wanted to find the truth about why their child was an orphan.

Some had been harassed for years for terminating their contract and hiring a private investigator to find out the truth about their child.

Not one parents who hired a private investigator found that the agency had told them the truth about their child.

 

Many of the parents who did investigations did find that their children were in fact true orphans. 
There were some who found out that their children were not really orphans and had parents who loved and wanted them.
There were some who found that their child's birth family was bribed to give up their child.

 

Adopting healthy babies is a difficult thing in a foreign country.

There are so many babies who are orphaned and do need homes.

It takes time and money to properly process those orphans to makes sure they are true orphans.

The majority of adoptive parents want to adopt infants.

The international fees that parents pay for an adopted child are ridiculous.

This is the perfect atmosphere for corruption.

 

Babies as well as older children are basically be bought and sold.

Parents who are living in poverty are sought out and talked into giving up their children.

Many parents don't understand that their child will be taken away for the rest of their lives. Some parents believe that they will be at the orphanage for a time while they figure out a way to provide.

Staff go out and recruit children from the poor neighborhoods.

There have been cases where doctors were paid off to tell mothers that their babies died in the hospital so that they can be put up for adoption.

 

The agency we were with supplied babies to four different agencies.  They are known for their healthy infant referral and the wait time in only a couple of months.  We started asking ourselves where they got all these babies?  Why is everything so secretive?  Why will they terminate your contract if you want to know the truth about where you children came from? 

 

We started second guessing the way we viewed international adoption.

**I want to make it clear that not all of the currupt things listed above were done by our previous agency.  Some were carried out by different orphanages in Ethiopia.  I was told by families who had personaly experienced these things that these sorts of things were happening in an orphanage that our previous agency got children from.