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Story Need to Know May 6, 2011

Left in Limbo: To Adopt a Child

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After being sold in the brothels of India for as little as $300, many Nepali girls who have been...

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Dee Dee Milton, with her adopted daughter Bina in Kathmandu, Nepal. Milton was one of the American adoptive parents stuck in Nepal when the U.S. stopped all adoptions of abandoned children, citing unreliable documents. The new regulations left Milton in limbo, unable to bring her child back home. Photo: Anup Kaphle, Nepal, 2011.

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The U.S. State Department has suspended adoption of abandoned Nepalese children, citing numerous examples of unreliable and possibly fraudulent documents.

For Dee Dee Milton and 70 other American families who were in the midst of finalizing adoptions from Nepal, the new U.S. policy left them in limbo. The onus was now on those families to prove that the child they wanted to adopt is a legitimate orphan.

Need to Know traveled to Nepal to meet American adoptive parents who are fighting to bring their adopted children home, as well as Nepalese biological parents whose children were put up for adoption without their consent.

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