Internet, Money, & Adoption
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With all due respect, what makes this adoption story different to the many thousands of similar US adoptions procured over the internet is only that the facilitator was double-dipping for more profit.
This whole sorry saga smacks of history repeating itself with the babies' ancestors no doubt having also been bought and sold in their time. However one hundred and fifty years ago it was called indentured servitude, which I thought had been outlawed in the US since the Civil war. Apparently not.
It matters not why a human being is bought or sold, be it for love or to work in the fields. The bottom line is the same. They are traded as chattel, which is too close to slavery for comfort. The sooner the US regulates its adoption services and takes it out of the hands of profiteers the sooner it will gain some international respect by treating its children as valuable members of society, and not becausethey fetch a high price.
I don't know a lot about American adoption laws but I do know that it is illegal to make payment to any unlicenced adoption intermediary, other than an authorised agency, or for anyone to receive compensation for services other than hospital and medical care.
I wonder how valid the licences of these adoption facilitators are - if they are licenced that is?
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