In the News: Stealing Babies for Adoption

"'Am I feeding into this?, Am I causing others to say, 'There's a market for babies?'" asks one adoptive mother in an interview with the Washington Post in a March 12, 2006 article, Stealing Babies for Adoption by Peter S. Goodman. According to the article it appears that babies have a street market value in China. Thousands of infants have been abducted or purchased from birth mothers and then sold to orphanages within different provinces in China. The report goes on to state that the children are then bought by the orphanages for $400 to $538 and then adopted to foreign adoptive parents for a mandatory contribution of $3,000 per child. How do you feel about this?

• uncomfortable with the idea of adopting from China in the future.
• sure that the Chinese government would cover all bases to ensure a legal adoption.
• worried that my Chinese adopted child’s history and abandonment story is a fabrication.
• I don't have an opinion on this report.