Talking about The Child Catchers

The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce is a shocking exposé of what the adoption industry has become and how it got there, told through deep investigative reporting and the heartbreaking stories of individuals who became collateral damage in a market driven by profit and, now, pulpit command.

posted 5/3/2013 8:05 AM ] This week in Nashville, the Christian Alliance for Orphans will hold Summit 9, an annual planning conference, including strategizing for Orphan Sunday on Nov. 3. But in reality, the bloom is off the rose of American Christians adopting orphaned and vulnerable children from faraway lands.

Written by Sarah Seltzer for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. Kathryn Joyce's new look at the adoption industry, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption , contains within its pages true horror stories.

Written by Jon O'Brien for RH Reality Check . This diary is cross-posted; commenters wishing to engage directly with the author should do so at the original post. This summer, Americans of every faith and of none have been subjected to the propaganda machine of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and their "Fortnight for Freedom" campaign.

I moderate my blog comments now. I'm not sure why because even though the uglies don't get published, I still have to read them. And then not publishing them makes me feel like a coward. sigh It started when an internet troll (So I wrote a And then add into the mix But you know what?

Journalist Kathryn Joyce takes on domestic infant adoption and international adoption in her new book, The Child Catchers, forcefully demonstrating its unsavory realities, including how it exploits vulnerable mothers.

Erin Siegal, author of Finding Fernanda"The Child Catchers shatters conceptions about how and why Americans adopt, bringing us inside the often-misunderstood Christian adoption movement. Joyce's graceful prose deftly exposes the connections between adoption trade groups, the religious right, and U.S. policy makers, while delicately revealing a horrific series of ongoing crimes and misdeeds perpetrated against children.

Writing in The Nation, Melanie Mock summarizes the findings of Kathryn Joyce's The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption. Mock writes: "Many secular adoption agencies have been implicated in corruption in the last decade and more.

06 May 2013 Posted by Steven Wedgeworth Kathryn Joyce's The Child Catchers is being promoted in some quarters as a critique not only of an abusive adoption practice, but also of Evangelical Christianity. It is yet another example of how dangerous American Christianity can be, or so the line goes.

There is a maelstrom occurring in the world of adoption just now. One bit of thunder is the debate in churches and across the Internet about orphans, widows, Jesus, and Kathryn Joyce's new book Child Catchers: Rescue Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption. I understand if evangelical Christians feel defensive while reading Child Catchers.

I am writing this on an appropriate day in the church calendar, Pentecost-- a day that has connections to the topic of international adoption. What are the connections? I think I'll save that explanation until after I review Kathryn Joyce's new book.

Credit: Anthony C/lta362 on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)--Adoption is often described as a "win-win" solution--for a child in need of a home and for adoptive parents longing for a son or a daughter to raise.

There's a new book by Kathryn Joyce, condemning Christians who adopt as 'child catchers,' like the villain in Chitty Chitty Bang, Bang. NPR, of course, loves it and gave the author air time.

At Daily Life today, I review the new book by Kathryn Joyce, "The Child Catchers: Adoption, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption": Decades after what in the USA is referred to as the "baby scoop era", we recognise that what the Australian government did to unwed mothers and their children was reprehensible.

BOZEMAN, Mont. - As a girl, Danna Hopkins dreamed of having 20 children. Today, she and her husband, Brian, the pastor of an evangelical church here, are building a large family, but not in the way she had imagined. Ms. Hopkins gave birth to four children, now ages 7 to 11.

Donald Miller has a fascinating article on depravity. New Research May Change Your Views on The Depravity of Man -- Donald MIller A recent book by Dan Ariely called The Honest Truth About Dishonesty, is, in my opinion, the best book about Total Depravity written in years.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed This episode I speak with Kathryn Joyce who is an author and journalist based in New York City. Kathryn is a religion reporter, mainly focusing on women and reproductive issues within the US Evangelical Christian context.

'The Child Catchers': Evangelicals and the Fake-Orphan Racket BY KATHRYN JOYCE In her shocking new book, Kathryn Joyce uncovers how conservative Christians have come to dominate the international adoption circuit-and its dark underbelly. In 2009, a van from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, carrying seven young children and babies, was stopped as it drove outside the rural, central Ethiopian town of Shashemene.

(Update: Merritt just told me I should 'clarify' his links to the Southern Baptist Convention, since he has no professional link to the SBC. I never claimed that he did. He does identify as Southern Baptist and has strong ties to the denomination, and I feel this is relevant, given his support of Russell Moore.

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.

Joyce's article is based on a chapter in her new book, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, which I will be reviewing here later this month. As a result of the articles surrounding the subject, my friend Jason Egly, himself an adoptive father, introduced me to Caleb David, co-founder and Executive Director of One Child Campaign.

When you think of adoption, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? Maybe it's the vague, rosy notion of a happy ending - of rescue, salvation or (more likely) some do-gooding Hollywood mouthpiece like Angelina Jolie adding kids of various ethnicities to her big, colorful brood.

In The Child Catchers, Kathryn Joyce explores the outsized influence of evangelical Christian groups on the overseas adoption industry. The adoption movement has orchestrated a boom-and-bust market that can exploit poor families in countries where regulat...

Thanks to the publication of Kathryn Joyce's new book, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (excerpted here in Mother Jones, and Ms. Joyce is interviewed here at NPR), there's been an online wave of criticism/examination of Evangelicals' so-called orphan fever.

Today we begin a series of posts about the controversial new book by investigative journalist Kathryn Joyce, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption. Joyce's work has appeared in top-notch publications such as Mother Jones and The Atlantic, and she's been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships.