Adopting for God: The Mission to Change America through Transnational Adoption

Explores the role played by missionaries in the twentieth-century transnational adoption movement

Between 1953 and 2018, approximately 170,000 Korean children were adopted by families in dozens of different countries, with Americans providing homes to more than two-thirds of them. In an iconic photo taken in 1955, Harry and Bertha Holt can be seen descending from a Pan American World Airways airplane with twelve Asian babies—eight for their family and four for other families. As adoptive pa...