A lack of legal oversight allows American parents to get rid of kids adopted overseas with impunity. Roelie Post of the organization Against Child Trafficking told RT about how “the children of the market” remain invisible in the surveillance-obsessed US.
A Reuters investigative report revealed in September that a loose internet network had developed in the US whereby dissatisfied parents used social networks to advertise and often pass off unwanted children adopted abroad with next to no government scrutiny. In the mostly lawless underground marketplace, the children are treated like livestock, with children’s protective services remaining mostly in the dark.
Post explains how commercial agencies have exploited the market in unwanted children.
http://rt.com/op-edge/rehoming-adopted-children-problems-669/
CHICAGO -- U.S. lawmakers called Tuesday for federal action to prevent parents from giving unwanted adopted children to strangers met on the Internet, and the Illinois attorney general urged Facebook and Yahoo to police online groups where children may be advertised.
The demands come as nations whose orphans have been adopted by Americans contend that the U.S. government isn't doing enough to stop the practice, known as "private re-homing."
http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_...-parents-giving-away-adopted-kids-on-internet
A few ads offering free children on the Internet:
“Born in October of 2000 — this handsome boy, ‘Rick,’ was placed from India a year ago and is obedient and eager to please.”
“We adopted an 8-year-old girl from China. … Unfortunately, we are now struggling, having been home for 5 days.”
“Prayerfully seeking a loving and nurturing family for our 14-year-old daughter who has been with us for almost a year. She honestly is almost a model child.”
This is “private re-homing,” something that once meant finding a new home for a dog that barked too much. Now it refers to families recycling their adopted children, often through Internet postings.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...ng-often-ends-badly-for-adopted-children.html
Same info as last link
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/when-children-are-traded/article5376470.ece?homepage=true
If you're desperate for a child or desperate to be rid of one, the Internet is here to help. You can save time, avoid bureaucratic interference and escape the prying eyes of child welfare busybodies. Yes, it's every bit as awful as it sounds. But it's true.
Illinois, we are told, has some of the strongest adoption laws in the nation. But those laws "are not enough to stem the horrible practice of 're-homing' adopted children who are in perilous circumstances," according to state Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, D- Chicago, who chaired a hearing on Internet adoptions this week.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/...131031_1_child-welfare-adoptions-two-children
Parents who give up their adopted children have been making the news with increasing frequency of late. There’s Torry Ann Hansen, the now-infamous Tennessee nurse who sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to his native Russia on a plane, alone. Then there’s Joyce Maynard, the writer who made headlines last year when she admitted to giving her two adopted Ethiopian daughters to a new family. And many have read the recent Reuters series on parents who send their problematic adoptees to live with online strangers offering free “re-homing.”
As it turns out, broken adoptions are far more common than one might imagine. According to statistics from the federal Children’s Bureau, as many as 10 percent of adoptions are “dissolved,” meaning the parent-child relationship is severed after the adoption is finalized. As countries such as Guatemala and China close their international adoption programs or implement strict new rules, the pool of adoptable babies has shrunk dramatically in recent years, leading to a rise in more challenging types of adoption of older or disabled children that are more likely to end in dissolution.
Read more: Broken Adoptions: When Parents “Re-Home” Adopted Children | TIME.com
http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/20/br...rents-re-home-adopted-children/#ixzz2lbaVsvw0
Part 2: A self-proclaimed ‘lil boylover’ and a woman accused of neglect find a child on the Internet – and pick him up hours later in a hotel parking lot.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story contains language that some readers may find offensive.
APPLETON, Wisconsin – Online, she called herself Big Momma; he went by the name lovethemcute. And in the summer of 2006, housemates Nicole Eason and Randy Winslow were surfing the Internet with a common objective.
Each was looking for children.
Winslow – lovethemcute – was 41, balding and paunchy. He swapped pictures of naked children and would later spend time in a chat room called baby&toddlerlove, where he described himself as a "lil boylover," court documents show. There, he would graphically boast of molesting boys and explain how to keep the abuse quiet: "Just have to raise them to think its fine and not to tell anyone," he wrote in a chat with an undercover federal agent. "What is done in the family stays in the family."
Eason – Big Momma – was about to turn 28. She had moved to Illinois from two states where authorities had taken away her biological children years earlier. In one report, authorities noted that a child she and friends were watching had died in her care.
Living away from her husband, Calvin, and with Winslow in the Illinois town of Tilton, Eason wanted to be a mother again. A few hours on an Internet bulletin board were all she would need to find a new child.
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/adoption/#article/part2
