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In Zoë and May’s cases, as in the case of the twins carried by the Korean American woman in New York, the mistake was apparent because the children were a different race from the birth parents.
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Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Stan said he was adopted, and his search to find his birth parents had hit a dead end.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
Lawyers earned $4,000 from a $20,000 international adoption, whereas birth parents were compensated the least: one Mayan Tz’utujil-speaking mother said that she was offered $40 and bus fare to give up her son.
—John Washington, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Dworkin, a Black man given up for adoption by his birth parents, was raised by white parents, grew up to have biracial children, and encountered many setbacks in his life due to his race and fallout from his traumatic upbringing before finding happiness and success.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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Julia Whelan Krish Seenivasan Lance Neal, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
Stan said he was adopted, and his search to find his birth parents had hit a dead end.
—Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
Lawyers earned $4,000 from a $20,000 international adoption, whereas birth parents were compensated the least: one Mayan Tz’utujil-speaking mother said that she was offered $40 and bus fare to give up her son.
—John Washington, Harper's Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Dworkin, a Black man given up for adoption by his birth parents, was raised by white parents, grew up to have biracial children, and encountered many setbacks in his life due to his race and fallout from his traumatic upbringing before finding happiness and success.
—Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Birth parent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/birth%20parent. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.
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