Is an adoption fee like child trafficking?

It is easy to demand that the cost of the child's bringing up should be handled by donations and government money and stuff? But then, why government? Did government place a child into adoption? read more

Trafficking tends to be a distraction from the real problem -- prepubescent girls held as sex slaves. Most are domestically bred, not trafficked from other countries. It's not important where they came from. read more

Illegal adoption may take place in a variety of ways. Areas that have a high number of children available for adoption like China is especially likely to participate in illegal adoption rings. A recent incident in China exposed many infant trafficking victims located in several orphanages. read more

A goal of Juntunen's group is to raise international adoption in the U.S. to 50,000 children a year and cut the average time to approve adoptions to nine months. In 2011, fewer than 10,000 overseas children were adopted in the U.S., with an average wait time of three years. read more