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of "emotionally needy" prospective adoptive parents. She noted that many applicants had turned to intercountry adoption after being rejected "for wise and good reasons" for domestic adoption in their own countries … 50-70% poor risk

Orphanages wanted a maximum number of children in their facilities so as to maximize their access to relief goods and money, so directors represented the children as orphans, even those who had living parents. Birth parents had to present their children as orphans so they could benefit from the relative wealth of orphanages—so

placing their children in an orphanage was effectively a permanent act. Many of the roughly half a million war widows entrusted their children to orphanages knowing that they would probably never be able to retrieve them.

MHSA believed that a total of 50,000 children needed "help of some kind very badly," even if not all of them were actually orphans.' Orphanages mushroomed after the Korean War. By 1955, an estimated five hundred orphanages housed approximately fifty-three thousand children,

Koreans and Americans alike argued for the removal of GI babies on the assumption that their racial mixture and physical difference would make it impossible for them to fit into Korean society,

Despite the hardship of concealment, a mother often kept her child with her in the hope that the father would marry her and take them both to the United States. Only when all hope was gone would she abandon the child. GI babies were found in every place conceivable-at

GI babies bore the heavy burden of a triple stigma: they were mixed race, they were fatherless, and Koreans and Americans alike assumed that their mothers were prostitutes. Without a father, a GI baby could not be entered into a hojuk (family register),

In fact, Madame Rhee claimed that the government had had to establish camptowns because the foreign military men kept "taking" any woman they wanted.

Historians have noted the correspondence between foreign troop presence and a rise in prostitution and the birth of illegitimate children.? This has been a major feature of the US presence in Korea since the end of World War II.

Approximately six million American soldiers served in Korea between 1950 and 1971, and up to one million Korean women provided sex for them in the camptowns.