(Jan 2, 2012, Pulitzer Center)--Over the past several years, Ethiopia has become one of the top "sending countries" in the international adoption market. But with the growing numbers of adoptions have come allegations of fraudulent paperwork and unethical recruitment of children for adoption--a practice dubbed "child harvesting" by the Ethiopian government.
Kathryn Joyce discusses her project "Casualties of Ethiopia's Adoption Boom" and the impact this new "export industry" has had on the local population.
Kathryn Joyce discusses her project "Casualties of Ethiopia's Adoption Boom" and the impact this new "export industry" has had on the local population.
Over the past several years, Ethiopia has rapidly become one of the top "sending countries" in international adoption: the number of children sent abroad has recently grown from a few hundred to several thousand annually.
In the context of a global decline in international adoptions--which plummeted from a 2004 peak of 23,000 adoptions to the U.S. to under 12,000 in 2010--Ethiopia's exponential growth has earned it the label of the adoption world’s “New China." Read more from Pulitzer Center »
In the context of a global decline in international adoptions--which plummeted from a 2004 peak of 23,000 adoptions to the U.S. to under 12,000 in 2010--Ethiopia's exponential growth has earned it the label of the adoption world’s “New China." Read more from Pulitzer Center »
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