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May 4, 2018 32 min

S3 Episode 4: An Unbreakable Bond

from Offshore Podcast Hosted by Honolulu Civil Beat

In Springdale, London Lewis begins to experience Marshallese culture for the first time. He’s going to meet people he’s only read about in World War II textbooks. Hear a language he’s never heard except for on YouTube. Get a little closer to finding his birth family. But we’re not just in Springdale for London. We’re […]

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In Springdale, London Lewis begins to experience Marshallese culture for the first time. But we’re not just in Springdale for London. We’re also here to try and find out exactly what’s happening with Marshallese adoptions today. To speak with private adoption lawyers, adoptive families, and Marshallese birth mothers about the adoption process. Adoptions are big business. As international adoptions have dropped off, there are still hundreds of thousands of adoptive parents vying for an increasingly small pool of healthy babies. Many of them are turning to this small community in Arkansas where private adoption lawyers and their Marshallese liaisons - or fixers - are household names for quickly matching them with Marshallese birth mothers.

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