South Korea admits to 'mass exporting' children for adoption
South Korea admits to 'mass exporting' children for adoption
A report says the government is guilty of human rights violations in its overseas adoption programme.
WTF is a country with a .75 fertility rate exporting the few children it has?
(fertility is measured as the average children each woman has. You need a 2.1 to maintain population.)
There are some super fucked up societal dynamics in SK. Japan, China, and a lot of other East Asian countries with more conformist cultures have a depressing amount of that. It’s one of the reasons I don’t think I could put up with living in Japan long-term, despite enjoying a lot of the other cultural aspects enormously.
The program was started because of the Korean War.
the time period also was during the height of adoptions, which was also the time period of kidnappings.
basically the demand for children was at a high, and there were a lot of bad actors in the market "making supply" where that supply came from varied.
That was what I was thinking too, but looks like it's about children way back in the day.
Why would they ever approve the adoption of a 13-year-old to another continent? This seems extremely sus even without any evidence of wrongdoing.
Sounds to me like a loophole excuse for human trafficking.
Money. Someone was making money off of it somehow, and was willing to do terrible things to get more.
If not the worst then like top three lowest birth rates in the world and they're exporting kids. Foolishness.