Black Market Adoption
Definition: An adoption in which one or more parties make a profit from a child placement, as opposed to receiving payment for providing counseling, location, or other services.
Also Known As:Illegal adoption, baby selling
Related Resources:Black Market Adoptions: Search
Black market (illegal) adoptions are the hardest to trace because there's no paper trail. Resources include reunion registries, information about known black market adoption operations, and personal stories.
Black Market Adoptions: History
Tracing the history of black market adoption operations isn't easy, but several researchers have done remarkably well working with very little information.
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