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US will start revoking passports of parents owing $100,000 in unpaid child support and soon expand to $2,500, AP learns

WASHINGTON (AP) — US will start revoking passports of parents owing $100,000 in unpaid child support and soon expand to $2,500, AP learns.

A wall of nametags at a South Korean park testifies to adoptees’ longing for their birth mothers

PAJU, South Korea (AP) — Dozens of Korean adoptees from North America and Europe recently gathered to leave their names on a wall at a former U.S. military base, hoping that, after decades, a birth mother might still be looking for them. Misted in rain, they fastened ceramic nametags onto mesh that covered a cobblestone wall at Omma Poom Park — meaning “mother’s embrace" — in Paju, South Korea. More than 900 tags, suspended like unmailed letters, formed a quiet monument to years of mass child-parent separations that has created what's likely the world’s largest diaspora of adoptees. “There are so many tiles that hang, and yet that is merely a small fraction of us that exist,” said Nicole Rieth, adopted to Michigan when she was 4 months old, in January 1989.
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