Adoption from overseas is one of the hottest tickets in the adopt a baby arsenal. Most people who are waiting to adopt from out of country state that they believe the children to be in need of "saving" from horrible orphanages and a thousand other "horrible" fates. But the truth is far from being told. Today in the Caixin Weekly, a Chinese newpaper, this article was run:
Family Planning Turns to Plunder
And this example is not the only one. There are numerous reports on baby stealing, adoptions of trafficked children that can't, for whatever reason, be returned home (see the reports of African and Indian children adopted by Americans that are known to have been stolen and now can't be returned to their families, supposedly to prevent them from living in poverty or because they don't know their native language or cultures).
Americans, and I am sure other countries, often make decisions to suit themselves. Never allowing for the facts of the acquisition of children to interfere with their desire to "grow their forever family," often at the expense of the children's home culture and real life families. This occurs in almost all nations considered "third-world" and particularly in non-western nations. Sadly, it is not because there is no information out there to tell the would-be adopter that they might be adopting a child from a parent that wants them, it is because the American and other "first-world' nationals choose not to look closely at anything that might not be what they want to hear.
It is time to require that there be no chance, regardless of nationality, that a child have a parent or family member that can care for them. Adoption should be restricted to those that really need homes... Not to homes that really want children.
