After a bout of 5 days of the flu, I am collecting my marbles again. I started reading a book on Korean adoptions. The author contends that the adoptions were more political in nature than humanitarian. The Holt family which came to the spotlight in 1955 for adopting Korean orphans is the humanitarian focal point. The author says orphans go back to 1945 when the US military occupied the peninsula. The impact of the war and the GIs fostering children lead to the need for adopting the Korean children,
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