(April 28, 2012, The Wall Street Journal)--Seated in plastic chairs in a grade-school cafeteria in Minnesota,
Sandra and Alan Roth admired their 7-year-old daughter, Melesech, making
her stage debut last month in "Peter Pan" as one of the "lost kids"—the
children who find themselves spirited away to a magical place called
Neverland. Four years earlier, to the day, the Roths had brought Mel
home from Ethiopia, where they had adopted her.
"Oh, Wendy, we thought you were going to be our mother!" said Mel on stage, speaking her only line and wearing a rust-colored tunic and fuzzy Ugg-style boots. "She is very special," said Mrs. Roth, 49 years old. For children like her in Ethiopia, she added, "There is no future."
Ethiopia has become one of the busiest adoption destinations in the world, thanks in part to loose controls that make it one of the fastest places to adopt a child. Nearly one out of five children adopted by Americans hailed from Ethiopia the past two years, second only to China. Read more from The Wall Street Journal »
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Meet Kathryn Joyce: Adoption Boom and Fraud in Ethiopia
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"Oh, Wendy, we thought you were going to be our mother!" said Mel on stage, speaking her only line and wearing a rust-colored tunic and fuzzy Ugg-style boots. "She is very special," said Mrs. Roth, 49 years old. For children like her in Ethiopia, she added, "There is no future."
Ethiopia has become one of the busiest adoption destinations in the world, thanks in part to loose controls that make it one of the fastest places to adopt a child. Nearly one out of five children adopted by Americans hailed from Ethiopia the past two years, second only to China. Read more from The Wall Street Journal »
Related topics:
Meet Kathryn Joyce: Adoption Boom and Fraud in Ethiopia
Adoption Inc: How Ethiopia's Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists
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