In “Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession,” Kathryn Joyce writing at Mother Jones investigates the Evangelical Christian serial adoption industry that has brought — sometimes illegally — children from Liberia in West Africa into the United States. Many of these children are told in Liberia the U.S. is “heaven,” some of the children’s parents often believe they are not being adopted but just going away to school, then some of these children become immediate second-class citizens, used for labor, live in compounds, receive no formal education, are beaten and abused, and, sadly, some have died. Others get “returned,” dropped off in Liberia with a few dollars in their pockets and no where to go.
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Evangelical Christian Serial Adoption Of West African Children Leads To Child Abuse And Death
Evangelical Christian Serial Adoption Of West African Children Leads To Child Abuse And Death
In “Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession,” Kathryn Joyce writing at Mother Jones investigates the Evangelical Christian serial adoption industry that has brought — sometimes illegally — children from Liberia in West Africa into the United States. Many of these children are told in Liberia the U.S. is “heaven,” some of the children’s parents often believe they are not being adopted but just going away to school, then some of these children become immediate second-class citizens, used for labor, live in compounds, receive no formal education, are beaten and abused, and, sadly, some have died. Others get “returned,” dropped off in Liberia with a few dollars in their pockets and no where to go.
In “Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement’s Adoption Obsession,” Kathryn Joyce writing at Mother Jones investigates the Evangelical Christian serial adoption industry that has brought — sometimes illegally — children from Liberia in West Africa into the United States. Many of these children are told in Liberia the U.S. is “heaven,” some of the children’s parents often believe they are not being adopted but just going away to school, then some of these children become immediate second-class citizens, used for labor, live in compounds, receive no formal education, are beaten and abused, and, sadly, some have died. Others get “returned,” dropped off in Liberia with a few dollars in their pockets and no where to go.
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