Thursday, December 14, 2017

Military prostiution and orphans

Since I seem to be on a roll with the book on Korean orphans, trying to connect military prostitution to orphans is a challenge. With today's means to avert pregnancies in prostitutes, that number may be there but much smaller. I will have to do some research on the numbers.
What surprised me about Korean adoptions is that the peak was the decade from 1980-1989. Probably the collapse of the Soviet Union caused some of the shift after 1991.

There was a total of 162,665 overseas adoptions out of South Korea from 1953 to 2008.
Title
Decade Intercountry Adoptions Out of South Korea From 1953 to 2008
2000-2008
18,129
1990-1999
22,925
1980-1989
66,511
1970-1979
46,035
1960-1969
6,166
1953-1959
2,899

Sources: Hübinette (2005) and
South Korean Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs (2009)[4]

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