A guide to understanding international adoption in the global village.
Each man's joy is joy to me. Each man's grief is my own.
Family Stories:
- An Indian Adoption Story:
- Part I:
Lakshmi's Story
- Part II:
Anjali & Sutara's Story
- Photo:
Reunion
- Part I:
Lakshmi's Story
- Voices of an Indian Birthmother and Her Community
- Legal Articles:
- Article I: Intercountry Adoption as Child Trafficking
- Article II: The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption
- Article III: Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children
- Law Enforcement: What Really Happened in Cambodia
- What to Do About Adoption Corruption: the Summary List
- What to Do About Adoption Corruption: the Detailed List
Fleasbiting--An Adoption Corruption Blog
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Legal Articles
by David M. Smolin (35 Seton Hall Law Review 403 2005) This article reviews international, United States, and Indian law applicable to intercountry adoption. The article describes and analyses the Andhra Pradesh, Indian adoption scandals, which involved serious charges of abusive adoption practices including baby buying and other illicit means of obtaining children for adoption.
(39 Valparaiso Law Review 281 2005) This article describes the idealogical divisions over intercountry adoption, and seeks to define legal and ethical standards necessary to a humane system of intercountry adoption. The article reviews international law defining when international adoption becomes a form of child trafficking.
(August 29, 2005, ExpressO Preprint Series. Working Paper 749) This article documents and analyzes a substantial incidence of "child laundering" within the intercountry adoption system. Child laundering occurs when children are taken illegally from birth families through child buying or kidnapping, and then "laundered" through the adoption system as "orphans" and then "adoptees." The article then proposes reforms to the intercountry adoption system that could substantially reduce the incidence of child laundering.
Law Enforcement Presentation
What Really Happened in Cambodia by Richard Cross, Federal Senior Special Agent, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Human Trafficking Unit, case agent in "Operation Broken Hearts," the Cambodian Adoption Investigation. This educational presentation was given at Cumberland School of Law, Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama on April 15, 2005, as a part of the educational Rushton Distinquished Lecture Series: Reforming Intercountry Adoption: Present Realities and Future Prospects. Mr. Cross discusses the Operation Broken Hearts investigation which led to the successful international adoption-related felony conviction of two Americans, involved in facilitating more than 700 adoptions from Cambodia.