“Never did I think that moving to Japan with my American husband would lead to losing my children forever.” Diane McGee’s loss in the haven for parental abduction.
It has been almost 1000 days since Sean McGee, who works for Nomura Securities in Japan has allowed our children Mary, Kate & Jack to come home to New Jersey. I supported my husband through his schooling and his career while being a stay at home mom for 19 years. To advance his career we […]
Mizkan Founding Family Feud – Major Japanese Corp. Separates A Father From His Son
I am the victim of corporately-orchestrated child abduction. My dream of fatherhood has been stolen. I hope that, with this video, I can attract public interest in this matter. I hope to address the problem of the violation of my human rights and my separation from my son as carried out by Mizkan and the […]
Help SHARE mothers video for abducted Canadian Calgary girl to Iraq | International Missing Children
www.iCHAPEAU.ca – On this International Missing Children’s Day, May 25th, help SHARE Zainab Mahdi video message for her #abducted Calgary Canadian girl #Zahraa Al Aazawi in Iraq. شكرا لنشركم هذا الفيديو. #iCHAPEAU Canada is helping to share her message. (CTV NEWS – May 20, 2021 1:24) Calgary mother pleads for return of daughter from Iraq […]
Kidnapped by a parent
What are the challenges of solving international child abductions? Are parental child abductions going unpunished? Canadian and U.S. data suggest most international child abductions are committed by a family member. Typically, the parent left behind has sole custody and believes they have legal protection when their kids are taken abroad. Instead, they find themselves stuck […]
Hague pact ‘too late’ for divorcee
For one Japanese mother long separated from her children after the failure of an international marriage, the Diet’s expected ratification of an international treaty to help settle cross-border child custody disputes arouses mixed feelings. “Personally, it’s too late for me, but I feel we’ve come this far at last because the problem is not limited […]
‘My children are my everything — the reason I’m alive’
Left-behind father makes desperate journey to Fukushima to reunite with kids On Bruce Gherbetti’s right forearm, the names of his three lost children are permanently inscribed in a swirling script of dark blue tattoo ink. “They go with me everywhere I go,” he says, smiling. “It is a physical representation of the fact that my […]
Hague pledge fails to appease U.S. lobbyists
Talk of joining cross-border child abductions treaty ‘insincere’ NEW YORK – Leaders of U.S. groups lobbying for the return of children abducted by a parent across international borders reacted with skepticism to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s explanation to U.S. President Barack Obama that Japan is close to joining a convention to resolve such incidents. “The fact […]
Please, prime minister, just let me be a father
Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, As a boy growing up in America, my mother and father would have frequent arguments. It was a stressful time for everyone, and eventually they got divorced when I was in 2nd grade in elementary school. During the divorce proceedings all of my family members went through an especially difficult […]
Hague Convention on child abduction may shape Japan’s family law — or vice versa
Giant Hello Kitty-emblazoned kudos to Japan for finally signing the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction. Now comes the hard part: actually making it work. Mistakenly identified by some press accounts as an accomplishment of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Japan’s accession is probably more the fruit of prolonged slogging by anonymous public servants. In the […]
Japan’s Child Kidnapping Problem
Dozens of American children are abducted to Japan every year—not by strangers, but by parents after messy divorces. Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky and Jake Adelstein report Updated Jul. 11, 2017 7:19PM ET / Published May. 19, 2013 4:45AM ET Japan has a child-kidnapping problem. It’s not strangers snatching the kids on the playground or at the bus stop; the problem is that when […]
