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The Children Market

The last fifty years an adoption industry has developed that serves the growing demand for children in the Western world. An industry in which huge sums of money are involved.

Children are obtained for adoption through coercion, fraud and kidnapping, but also through too permissive laws on child relinquishment and/or too rapid termination of parental rights. In many cases unscrupulous go-betweens have found that large profits can be made by arranging the transfer of children from poverty-stricken homes to people with means.

Many such children are sold for money (disguised as adoption fees) either through independent adoptions or through licensed and accredited adoption agencies and regulated by adoption laws.

ACT considers that this represents a demand-driven market in children, which should be labelled as child trafficking.

 A market in children
is inconsistent with the Rights of the Child