For information on international adoption from self-described "abductees" visit http://www.transracialabductees.org/.
An editorial on Romanian adoptions:
http://www.adoptionireland.com/info/may2003.htm
International Adoption: Opening Pandora's Box
http://www.adopting.org/dodds.html
Island adoption market delivers pain and profit
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.adopt02nov02,0,4294579.story?coll=bal-nationworld-utility
In Cambodia: "There is a pattern of recruiters going around the communities looking for poor women who are pregnant or with young children and either offering them money outright or cheating them by saying they have centres where they will care for the children temporarily."
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/16/1071336955851.html
A Guatemalan child "saved" by abduction-adoption!
http://www.sundayherald.com/39550
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Hoping To Adopt?
It's the demand for babies and the money that changes hands that drives abuses, with domestic and international adoption, as well as with surrogacy and with donor insemination. It's not about the children's needs at all.
Think about your "needs". Are your "needs" for an infant in good health so great that you must contribute to this problem of taking children from their parents and leaving devastation behind? If you're considering surrogacy or donor insemination, do you really want to create a child intentionally deprived of his real mother or father? Do you want to create a child who grows up and is unsure whether that boy/girl they met in class and find so incredibly attractive is their sibling? http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,956454,00.html
Yes, it's a loss for you, to think you may never have a child. But think of the cost of patching up the hole in your life - think of the emotional cost to the original family and think of the emotional cost to the child (later adult adoptee). Perhaps you simply should acknowledge your loss, find help with grieving, and then find other interests rather than adopting.
If you are young enough to concieve but want to become very "financially stable" first, if you think you will just adopt if you can no longer conceive later on, think about it carefully. Which is more important to you - having a swimming pool, big screen TV, boat, motorcycle, airplane? Or having your own children? Does your child's emotional well-being mean anything to you? Children don't need all those material things. They don't need substitute "parents". They don't need to wonder if they were obtained for adoption via devious or illegal means.
They need their own true mother and father.
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The Stolen Generation
http://www.aboriginalartonline.com/culture/stolen.html
Baby Stealing in Kenya
http://www.eastandard.net/headlines/news10010425.htm
Argentina: Babies "systematically" stolen from political prisoners.
http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=22248