Posted on Monday, 21st September 2009 by Lee
The L.A. Times reports on a twisted and burgeoning business practice in the international adoption scene. It appears that more and more babies and young children are being forcibly taken away by corrupt officials who turn around and sell them for adoption, primarily to the U.S. With all the money pouring into Asia through the adoption process, it isn’t surprising to see this cropping up in more and more countries.
The conventional wisdom is that the babies, mostly girls, were abandoned by their parents because of the traditional preference for boys and China’s restrictions on family size. No doubt, that was the case for tens of thousands of the girls.
But some parents are beginning to come forward to tell harrowing stories of babies who were taken away by coercion, fraud or kidnapping — sometimes by government officials who covered their tracks by pretending that the babies had been abandoned.
Parents who say their children were taken complain that officials were motivated by the $3,000 per child that adoptive parents pay orphanages.
Read the rest here.
Tags: adoption, Asia, business, china, chinese
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