Falsified Record and Coercion of First Family
My husband and I began our second Ethiopian Adoption back in 2008. We had brought home our beautiful son in 2006. We wanted children so badly and fell in love with the country, the people, and of course our son. We knew our daughter was also "waiting" for us there. Our story causes us heartbreak not only because of what happened to our child and her family, but how selfish and naive we were. In hindsight, we genuinely didn't know--we hadn't found the forums--we had heard the Guatemala stories, but that was there. Right? Sadly this reasoning was just not so as we had come to learn. We started with one of the bigger agencies in Ethiopia to wait for our little one. When they had increased the wait time from 6-9 months to 12-18 months our hearts broke. How could we possibly wait so “long”? A friend also starting her adoption at the same time told us about <agency> , how wonderful and personal the attention was. It was also run by an Ethiopian woman. What could be be...