E.J. Graff has investigated and written extensively about
international adoption and what she has found is hardly a feel-good
story of child rescue. Rather, she concludes that hopeful parents from
wealthy nations (the U.S., European countries, Australia) have created
a market where babies are bought and sold.
Here's what she has to say, in a New York Times editorial, about international adoption and Madonna's latest attempt to add to her family.
But in trying to adopt a child who already has a family, Madonna is
inadvertently exposing the seamier underside of international adoption:
the fact that, too often, the amounts of money that Western adoption
agencies spend in poor countries is helping to defraud, coerce or kidnap children away from families that wanted to raise them to adulthood.
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