The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (60 page)

Nelson, Carol,
140

Nelson, Mike and Mary,
171–173

Nepal,
216

Netherlands,
159

New Beginnings Home,
76–88
,
126

New Destiny,
209

New England Journal of Medicine
,
13

New Hope Maternity Home, Kanab, Utah,
101

New Jersey,
45

New Life Adoption Foundation,
8

New Life Children’s Refuge,
6
,
7
,
8
,
22

New Mexico,
141

New York City, N. Y.,
45
,
61

New York Foundling Hospital,
45

New York Times
,
12
,
19
,
268

Newsboys,
176

Newsweek
,
220

Ngabonziza, Damien,
251
,
254–255
,
260

NGOs.
See
Non-government organizations

No Greater Joy ministry,
193

Noel Orphanage, Rwanda,
258–260

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
20
,
152
,
230
,
256
,
262

Norman, Amy,
7n

North America,
5

North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC),
96

Nungester, Harold,
5
,
15–16

Nzabamwita, Nyanja,
263–264

O
magazine,
178

O Solo Mama,
97

Obama, Barack,
21
,
54
,
112

O’Brien, Soledad,
3
,
9–10
,
10n

O’Connor, Stephen,
45
,
47

O’Donnell, Rosie,
95

“Of Orphans and Adoption, Parents and the Poor, Exploitation and Revenue: A Scriptural and Theological Critique of the Evangelical Christian Adoption and Orphan Care Movement” (Smolin),
98

Office for Orphan Policy, Diplomacy and Development (State Department),
225

Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives,
44
,
55

Older children,
33
,
64
,
137
,
138

“On Adoption and Orphan Care,”
55–56

One Child Campaign,
213–214
,
215

One Child Policy,
97
,
216

Open adoption,
80
,
85
,
86
,
88
,
117–121
,
131
,
268

Open Adoptions & Family Services,
65
,
120

Operation Babylift,
4

Operation Pedro (Peter) Pan,
4

Operation Pierre Pan,
4

Operation Rescue,
113

Operation Save America,
113

Operation Vigilant Sentry,
3

OprhansNoMore Project,
28

Original sin,
193

Origins-USA,
93

Orphan, Kristin,
43

Orphan care,
43
,
57–58
,
224
,
234
,
257

Orphan crisis,
42
,
44
,
70–71
,
132
,
152
,
235
,
256
,
257
,
278

Christian adoption movement and,
61–67
,
247

Ethiopia and,
155
,
170
,
213–214

global,
54
,
56

myth of,
132
,
152

Orphan Sunday,
55
,
65
,
244

Orphan train movement,
45–46
,
47

Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
(O’Connor),
45

Orphanages

in China,
216

education in,
175

in Ethiopia,
135
,
146
,
148
,
153
,
155
,
169

in Haiti,
4
,
9
,
11
,
28

in Liberia,
175
,
177
,
179
,
181
,
190
,
209

in Rwanda,
242
,
243
,
251
,
258–260

sexual abuse in,
153
,
175
,
184
,
190
,
193–194

in South Korea,
274

Ukrainian,
25–26

Orphan-care movement,
16–17

Orphanology
(Merida and Morton),
55
,
71
,
73

Orphans

American perception and policy about,
132

artificial creation of,
76

biblical definition of,
107

definition of,
168

double,
62–63

existing family ties of,
6

Haitian adoptions and,
5
,
13

manufacturing of,
157

single,
62

war,
47–52

widows and,
99
,
237

Orphan’s Ransom,
42

Orphan’s Table,
55

Orthodoxy,
52

Orthopraxy,
52

Our Little Tongginator,
98

Overseas adoption.
See
International adoption

Packer, J. I.,
244

Pandemics,
53

Parental rights,
123–126
,
133
,
174

Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform (PEAR),
21
,
63
,
171
,
225
,
234n

Paternalism,
92

Paternity,
123

Patriarchy,
270

Paul, Apostle,
23

P.E.A.C.E. Plan (Saddleback Church),
53
,
246
,
247
,
248
,
255
,
256

PEAR.
See
Parents for Ethical Adoption Reform

Pearl, Debi,
192
,
195

Pearl, Michael,
192
,
193–194
,
195
,
198–199

Pearson, Robert,
104–105

Pegis, Jessica,
97

Pennsylvania,
101

Pentecostals,
107

People
magazine,
217n

PEPFAR.
See
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

Permanency,
224
,
225

Petree, HollyAnn,
208

Philanthropy,
46

Philippians,
23

Physical abuse.
See
Child abuse

Piah, Jerolinmek,
208

Pickett, Richard and Malinda,
16

Pipeline adoption cases,
234

adoption reform and,
216–217

Christian adoption movement and,
216

in Ethiopia,
213–215
,
245–246

in Rwanda,
250
,
263–264

Planned Parenthood,
54
,
112n

Policy.
See
Adoption legislation

Pollock, Gina,
171

Polreis, Renee,
196

Pornography,
221
,
243

Positive adoption language,
96
,
99

Positive Alternatives Act (2005),
101

Posner, Sarah,
57

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD),
91
,
93
,
194
,
199
,
202
,
204

Pound Puppy Legacy website,
54
,
136
,
221
,
223

Poverty,
5
,
6
,
13–14
,
45
,
53
,
75
,
138
,
147
,
155–156
,
209
,
243

Predestination,
75–76
,
97

Premarital sex,
111
,
270
,
275
,
284

President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),
54

Préval, René,
18

Primm Springs, Tenn.,
176
,
183
,
186
,
191

Principle of subsidiarity,
11

Pro-Choice Virginia Foundation,
105

Progressive
,
52
,
277

“Pro-Life Dilemma: Pregnancy Centers and the Welfare Trap” (Mathewes-Green),
114

Prostitution,
23
,
130
,
208

Protestants,
46–47

Psalms,
44

PTSD.
See
Posttraumatic stress disorder

Puello, Jorge,
23

The Purpose Driven Life
(Warren),
40
,
53
,
246

Purvis, Karyn,
43

Queen Latifah,
2

Racialicious (website),
5

Racism,
5
,
70–71
,
75
,
233
,
280

RAD.
See
Reactive Attachment Disorder

Rainbow congregations,
42–43

Ranch for Kids Project,
196–197

Rangira, Vianney,
260

Rape,
191

Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD),
195–196

Reagan, Ronald,
18
,
99
,
106

Reclaiming Adoption
(Cruver),
55
,
58
,
59
,
229

Redeeming Orphans,
42

Reform Adoption Bill (Liberia),
210

Regent Journal of International Law
,
98

Rehoming,
197
,
197n
,
201
,
202

Reitz, Whitney,
20

Religious discrimination,
44

Religious relief organizations,
4

Rendell, Edward,
19–20

Repatriation,
18
,
189–191
,
201
,
217
,
287

Republican Party, Republicans,
221

Resilience
(documentary),
280

Respite care,
196–197
,
198
,
217

Restaveks,
9
,
9n
Rhatigan, Chris,
20

Riben, Mirah,
93
,
119–120

Richter, Linda,
7n

Right Brain People,
115
,
116

Rights

birthfather,
123–126

of birthmothers,
121

civil,
70–71

gay,
53–54

parental,
123–126
,
133
,
174

Rightwing News
,
21

Ripley, Merrily,
73

Riverkids Foundation,
262

The Road to Evergreen: Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family
(Stryker),
195
,
217n

Robinson, Evelyn,
284

ROC.
See
Rwanda Outreach and Community Partners

Roe v. Wade
,
54
,
100
,
111

Rollins, Lisa Marie,
72

Roman Empire,
52
,
99n

Romania,
59
,
132
,
135
,
259

Romney, Mitt,
122
,
230

Rothschild, Matthew,
52

Russia,
59
,
132
,
135
,
137
,
146
,
196
,
197
,
200
,
217–218

Rwanda,
171
,
238

adoption agencies and,
241
,
254

adoption process in,
249–251
,
253–255

adoption reform and,
242
,
245

Christian adoption movement and,
242
,
255–257

churches, partnership with in,
246–248

closing of adoption program in,
241–242

deinstitutionalization in,
242
,
243

domestic adoption in,
260–262
,
265–266

family preservation and,
251

foster care in,
244–245
,
262

genocide in,
243
,
244
,
246
,
248
,
251

international adoption and,
242
,
250–253

Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion (MIGEPROF) in,
238
,
243
,
244
,
246
,
251
,
253–254
,
258–260