Providing information on criminal activity and ethical violations committed by the international adoption industry. 

Articles About International Adoption and Market Demand:

• Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry (Mirah Riben and Bernadette Wright, PhD, Conducive, October/November 2009) [off-site link]
  
• The Price We All Pay: Human Trafficking in International Adoption (Kevin Minh Allen, Conducive, August/September 2009) [off-site link]
• Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children (David M. Smolin, Cumberland Law School) [off-site link]
• "Adoption is not the answer -  the best thing for orphans is to help reunite them with family members" (Salima Pirani, The Toronto Star, November 2, 2006)
• Virtual land of the baby broker business (Sue Lowe, Sydney Morning Herald, December 16, 2003)
• Adoption: The Baby Trade (Ethan B. Kapstein, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2003. Vol 82, No. 6)
  
• Market Puts Price Tags on the Priceless: How Bundles of Joy Not For Sale Are Sold (Laura Mansnerus, New York Times, October 26, 1998)
  
  

International Adoption From Brazil

• The Movement of the Mothers of the Courthouse Square: "Legal Child Trafficking," Adoption and Poverty in Brazil (Andre´a Cardarello, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 140-161)  [off-site link]

  Excerpt:  "One reason that a higher number of children from the Third World, and more specifically from Latin American countries, are available for adoption is that the rights of their families of origin are not respected" - Cardarello (2009).

International Adoption From Cambodia:

• Babies for sale: no warranty (Sidney Morning Herald, December 13, 2003)
• Jolie adoption firm shuts amid controversy (Contactmusic.com, December 22, 2003)
• Hawaii Resident Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison in Cambodian Adoption Conspiracy (U.S. Department of Justice, November 19, 2004)

International Adoption From China:

• Chinese baby trafficking leaves farmers forlorn (Anthony Germain, CBC News, May 16, 2011)
  
• Child abductions increase in China (Kathrin Hille in Beijing and Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai, Financial Times, February 14 2011)
  
• Chinese crackdown nets thousands of 'stolen' children (Aileen McCabe, Canwest News Service, October 29, 2009)

• Stolen Chinese children rescued (Emily Buchanan, BBC News Video:  October 28, 2009).  [off-site link]
• Stolen babies a new industry in China's villages (Carolyn Moynihan, Taiwan News, October 10, 2009)
  
• A young Chinese girl pines for her twin (Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2009)
• Chinese babies stolen by officials for foreign adoption (Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times, September 20, 2009)
  
• Parents seek answers after children abducted (John Vause, CNN, August 10, 2009)
• China babies 'sold for adoption' (BBC News, July 2 2009)
• China's Kidnapped Children (Video: Kidnapped children being sold in China, June 4, 2009) [off-site link]
• Kidnappers swoop on China’s girls (Michael Sheridan, The Sunday Times, May 31, 2009)
  
• Police in China Break Up Baby Trafficking Ring,, 40 Infants Rescued (Staff, AP News, September 7, 2007)
• Stealing Babies for Adoption: With U.S. Couples Eager to Adopt, Some Infants Are Abducted and Sold in China (Peter S. Goodman
  Washington Post Foreign Service, Sunday, March 12, 2006)
• China halts baby trafficking ring (Francis Markus, BBC correspondent in Shanghai, July 13, 2004)
• China's Baby Traffickers: In rural Yunnan, poverty and the strict family-planning policy spawn a harrowing trade in infants (Hannah Beech, Time Asia, January 8, 2001, Vol 157, No. 1) [off-site link]

International Adoption From Costa Rica: Child Smuggling from Guatemala:

• Adoption inquiry alarms Costa Rica (Sandra Hernandez and Megan O'Matz, The Sun-Sentinel, December 20 2003)
  
• State goes after records of adoptions (Carol Marbin Miller, Miama Herald, December 25, 2003)
• Adoption Agency Shut By State: A Coral Springs adoption agency had its license revoked on Friday after state child welfare workers said the company was lying about its connections with a suspected child smuggler ( Noan Bierman and Marika Lynch, Miami Herald, December 6, 2003)

• How Ethiopia's Adoption Industry Dupes Families and Bullies Activists (The Atlantic, Dec 21 2011)
  

International Adoption From Guatemala:

• Global Adoption Industry – Children as Commodities (DW-TV EUROPA,  June 6, 2011)
  
• Guatemalan soldiers sold children in war  (Sarah Grainger, Reuters, September 10, 2009)
• DNA tests confirm first stolen baby in troubled Guatemalan adoption system (Deborah Bonello, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2008)
  
• U.S. Adoptions Fueled by Guatemalan Kidnappings (Haroldo Martinez and Russell Goldman, ABC News, May 13, 2008)
• Cleaning Up International Adoptions (Mica Rosenberg/Antigua, Time Inc., Aug. 29, 2007)
  
• Army Abducted Guatemalan Children Adopted in 1980s (Noel Randewich, Reuters, June 21, 2004)
• Canadian report on baby-trafficking at centre of Guatemala trial (CBC News, January 22, 2004)
• Adoption tactics hurt Guatemalans (Letta Tayler, Newsday, November 16, 2003)
  
  

International Adoption From Haiti:

• Aid agency reunites Haiti kids with parents (August 10, 2007)

International Adoption from India:

• In search of the stolen children: Despite a wave of scandals, child-trafficking remains a huge problem for India (Matt Wade, Sydney Morning Herald, August 30, 2008)
  
• 'Stolen boy' may be one of dozens (Dutchnews.nl, May 23, 2007)
• Investigation into illegal adoption (Expatica Netherlands, May 23, 2007)
• India demands return of adopted child (Expatica Netherlands, May 22, 2007)

International Adoption From Kenya :

• Tracking down Kenya's 'miracle babies' (Ishbel Matheson, BBC News, September 20, 2004)

International Adoption From Korea

• Ending South Korea's Child Export Shame (Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Foreign Policy in Focus, June 23, 2011) [off-site link]
• Babies for sale. South Koreans make them, Americans buy them (Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive, January 1988).  [off-site link]

Excerpt:  "'According to the questionnaire that we distribute at the orientation interview, 90 percent want to keep the babies, says Kim Yongsook, the director of Ae Ran Won. But after counseling, maybe 10 per cent will keep them. We suggest that it's not a good idea to keep the baby'.... After delivery at a hospital, the baby is taken from the mother.. " (An adoption agency director openly admits to coercing Korean mothers)

International Adoption From Liberia

• Liberia investigates child adoptions by U.S. agency (Alphonso Toweh, Reuters News Service, February 1, 2008)
• Fighting Child Labor, Trafficking In Liberia (Emily Holland, Huffington Post, March 5, 2009)

• Nigerian 'baby factory' raided, 32 teenage girls freed
• NIGERIA: 'Baby farm' girls rescued by Abia state police (Voice Online, June 6 2011)
  

International Adoption From Samoa

• DS Probe Helps Indict 7 Suspects For Adoption Fraud (United States Department of State, March 1, 2007)

• 16 stand trial in Vietnam baby selling case (Seattle Times, The Associated Press, September 21, 2009)
• Vietnam jails 6 for adoption fraud (Associated Press, September 29, 2009).
• Vietnam to end US adoption scheme (BBC News, 28 April 2008)
• Vietnam gang 'smuggled 30 babies' (BBC News, 9 April 2008)
  

• Rights of the Child:  Report submitted by Mr. Juan Miguel Petit, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/92.  [off-site link]

Excerpt:  "During the course of 2002, the Special Rapporteur received many complaints relating to allegedly fraudulent adoption practices. Where such practices have the effect that the child becomes the object of a commercial transaction, the Special Rapporteur, like his predecessor, considers that such cases fall within the “sale” element of his mandate. The Special Rapporteur was shocked to learn of the plethora of human rights abuses which appear to permeate the adoption systems of many countries" (p. 25).