Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world
By Laurie Penny
Sunday, 5 June 2011
In rural Nepal, where the going rate for a healthy orphan is $5,000 (£3,000), some 600 children are missing. They were taken by agents who came to the villages promising that they would educate the children and give them a better life in the capital, sometimes for a steep fee. The children never returned. (more…)
Date: 2011-05-15
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As a child welfare expert who has worked amid bullets and bombs in some of the world’s toughest war zones, Jennifer Morgan is not someone easily shaken. But even she admits she was shocked by some of the orphanages she visited recently in Haiti.
‘Outside it is a sunny day. Then you step inside the walls of an orphanage and realise that the children there have been exposed to rapes, severe beatings, emotional and mental trauma,’ she said. It was even more disturbing, she added, than the damaged children she came across amid the deadly mayhem of Darfur.
But perhaps the most troubling thing is that these tragic scenes in Haiti are not unusual. In dozens of places around the world, unregulated orphanages have become a boom business trading off Western guilt. Our desire to help is backfiring in the most dreadful fashion. (more…)
This article was published on the website www.thehimalayantimes.com
2010-02-24
KATHMANDU: The ad hoc International Adoption Working Group (IAWG) on Wednesday urged the Government of Nepal to act swiftly to strengthen the adoption process. (more…)
Children stolen for adoption in the U.S., Sweden, Italy and France, report says
Some parents were killed, others were unharmed when soldiers came calling
Investigators examined period between 1977 and 1989, ‘peak’ adoption period
Reports says many more could have been taken, investigation underway (more…)
Publicerad: 29 november 2008
Konkurrensen om världens adoptivbarn ökar. Allt fler länder slåss om
allt färre tillgängliga barn. För ensamstående är det idag näst intill
omöjligt att adoptera inom rimlig tid. Sedan 2005 har antalet barn som
adopteras i Sverige minskat med 26 procent. (more…)
Une journaliste française publie l’histoire vraie d’une fille volée à ses parents.Une affaire qui rappelle le scandale de L’Arche de Zoé. (more…)
Foreign families paid officials and orphanages
Fiona Tam
Jul 02, 2009
About 80 newborn baby girls from a county in Guizhou have been confiscated from their parents by family planning officials since 2001 and handed over to foreign adoptive parents as orphans at a price of US$3,000 each, state media reported.
Struggling farmers in Zhenyuan county who breached the two-child policy set down for rural areas but failed to pay some 20,000 yuan (HK$22,700) in total fines were forced to surrender their baby girls, The Southern Metropolis News reported yesterday. Authorities later forged documents stating the babies were orphans and gave the babies to foreign families in the United States, Belgium, Spain and other European countries. The US$3,000 each in adoption fees was split between the orphanage and the officials. (more…)
December 03, 2006
The booming egg donor market in the United States is pulling in British donors who want to make extra money.
The sale of eggs is illegal in this country, but in America, the industry is worth an estimated $4.5bn (£2.4bn). Donors with the right physical, personal and intellectual attributes can attract fees of up to $35,000 for their eggs, with some in the industry claiming that as much as $50,000 has changed hands. Prices are rising, too: in New York, average eggs are fetching $8,000. About 15 years ago, the comparable figure was closer to $1,000. (more…)
