The Samoan government has launched an inquiry into an international agency
that arranges adoptions of village children to Americans.
A One News investigation has found the children are not orphans or abandoned.
Instead they come from big families.
Auckland has become a staging post for American parents picking up Samoan
children. Last year the American consulate in Auckland issued visas for 61
Samoan children.
That figure is expected to grow and that has prompted a Samoan government
investigation.
In addition some parents claim they did not know they were signing their
children away forever. They say they had no idea that adoption meant permanent
seperation from their children.
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