Greek-Born Adoptees Seek Justice
” width=”699″>Linda Carol Trotter, who was born Eftychia Noula in Greece. She was taken away from her mother, whom she later had been told had died, and was adopted and grew up in Texas. Courtesy of Linda Carol Trotter
In the turbulent Cold War decades of the 1950’s and 1960’s, over 3,200 Greek-born adoptees grew up in America, while another 600 were sent to the Netherlands. Their adoptions, while given the coating of legality by the Greek courts, were mired in scandal and greed, and they were, at the very least, irregular while some were even illegal.
By Linda Carol Trotter
Greece-Born Adoptees Seek Justice
” width=”699″>Linda Carol Trotter, who was born Eftychia Noula in Greece. She was taken away from her mother, whom she later had been told had died, and was adopted and grew up in Texas. Courtesy of Linda Carol Trotter
In the turbulent Cold War decades of the 1950’s and 1960’s, over 3,200 Greek-born adoptees grew up in America, while another 600 were sent to the Netherlands. Their adoptions, while given the coating of legality by the Greek courts, were mired in scandal and greed, and they were, at the very least, irregular while some were even illegal.
By Linda Carol Trotter