Internet, Money, & Adoption
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"We monitor and regulate the sale of air conditioners more scrupulously than we do the transfer of a child from one family to another. It's a horrendous aspect of an institution that, in most other ways, is improving rapidly and radically. This case illustrates lots of important points, but it most clearly teaches two big lessons: First, that decades of secrecy surrounding adoption have created an atmosphere in which almost anything can happen, because nobody pays attention until disaster strikes. And that the lack of attention society pays to children's needs -- especially at a time when new technologies like the internet are provoking fundamental changes in the adoptive process -- amounts to a written invitation for baby selling and other abuses."
Adam PertmanAuthor:
Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming AmericaAvailable for interviews about the international struggle over twin girls apparently sold twice over the internet. Pertman can be contacted directly at 617-969-3850 or 617-929-2912. His email address is
apertman@aol.com.
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