Agencies competed for babies—pressuring mothers, bribing hospitals, fabricating documents—and later had grown adoptees meet their supposed birth families, only to learn they weren’t related at all.
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Her greatest fear, dormant for decades, came rushing back in an instant: had she adopted and raised a kidnapped child?
Peg Reif’s daughter, adopted from South Korea in the 1980s, had sent her a link to a documentary detailing how the system that made their family was rife with fraud: documents falsified, babies switched, children snatched off the street and sent abroad.
