Child Trafficking, Slavery and Domestic Infant Adoption
"Is it illegal for a parent to sell their child?" people sometimes ask. I guess with all the adoption agencies around selling "adoptionservices" designed to get babies for customers, these people think it must be OK for parents to cash in on the trade in human babies as well. In some countries, poor families may have no legal protection and parents do often feel so pressured that they sell one child just to keep the rest of the family fed. The parents may be lured in by seemingly friendly "professionals" who tell them their child will be "better off". But once the child is out of reach of family, the kids may be used for sexual purposes, medically butchered and used as a source of organs for transplants, used as slaves or sold for adoption. Sometimes the "adoption" is a disguise and the child is actually being sold for slavery or as a sex slave. What better ploy to get a child for kiddie porn or even a "snuff" film? Once in the possession of "adoptive parents" it will be assumed a child is safe and no one checks up. Athough completely unrelated to the child they purchase (or otherwise acquire), "adoptive parents" have a reputation as being "loving couples" and "angels". To question this belief is considered some sort of blasphemy, as if the man-made construct of adoption itself were a god....
http://www.exiledmothers.com/adoption_facts/child_trafficking.htm
