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September 07, 2010

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Please be sure to also inform your readers about the dangers of international adoptions. There are long-term, traumatic consequences when children are deprived of their families, and families are deprived of their children.

http://www.crin.org/bcn/details.asp?id=19201&themeID=1004&topicID=1030

"There are simply not enough healthy, adoptable infants to meet Western demand—and there’s too much Western money in search of children. As a result, many international adoption agencies work not to find homes for needy children but to find children for Western homes.

"Since the mid-1990s, the number of international adoptions each year has nearly doubled, from 22,200 in 1995 to just under 40,000 in 2006. At its peak, in 2004, more than 45,000 children from developing countries were adopted by foreigners. Americans bring home more of these children than any other nationality—more than half the global total in recent years.

"As international adoptions have flourished, so has evidence that babies in many countries are being systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families."

Also see:
http://goodintentionsarenotenough.com/2010/02/orphanages-or-up-for-adoption-a-lucrative-trade/

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