What is with all the baby buying cracks?

kateiskate

Well it has to do with economics. There wouldn't be a corrupt industry if there weren't a demand for a commodity. In this case the commodity is babies.

The agencys are to blame for exploiting children who have been surrendered, mothers, and adoptive parents who want children.

Philippa

The problem is while people are prepared to pay major $$$ for a baby/child then they are encouraging agencies and lawyers to charge so much. After all nobody is holding a gun to adoptive parents heads and forcing them to pay so much - they make that choice themselves.

In the UK it's much different as all adoptions go through social services or adoption agencies which are generally charitable organisations which keep costs down.

Heather B

I disagree that anyone is 'forced to pay' these people who profit off adoption.

There would be no $1.4billion industry dealing in babies if there were no paying customers. Adoption would be, and should be a social service; serving the needs of children. Not adults with checkbooks.

Demand from the paying customers determines the amount charged. As evidenced by the higher price of adopting a caucasian infant compared to the cost of adopting infants of other races, which are often classified as 'special needs' based upon desirability!

Birthers are NOT mothers

Money changes hands...product in hand...sounds like any other monetary purchase to me. Call it whatever you wish so you can sleep at night, but it is what it is and sugar coating it doesn't really change the cold hard facts!

cantstopLinnyG

I DO blame the industry. BUT- the industry would not be flourishing if people weren't so desperate for a newborn.

It's simple economics. Supply and demand if you will. It's like the Cabbage Patch Doll craze, or Tickle Me Elmo, or WII. There were not enough, so people would pay enormous prices to make sure they got one.

Why should corrupt governments with horrendous one-child only human rights policies stop their inhuman practices when Americans will fork over the dough? You cannot blame a Mother in a foreign country who is FORCED to give her child away.

It's ridiculous to me that people will boycott countries with these types of policies, yet think it's ok to adopt from there. "Don't buy fur from China, as it could be a dog!" but a baby girl is a different story...sigh...

life is like the ocean

The AP's are the ones demanding newborns, and willing to pay any price. As long as they pay the big bucks, the industry will continue to gouge them. Sure the industry is to blame with unethical practices and profiting from the sale of babies, but when AP's are buying into it they certainly bear *some* responsibility. Nobody is "forcing" them to pay, as you stated.

The people who put up their newborn children for adoption, are not given the real picture of what the future holds without their children. Half truths. They are young, vunerable and the agencies have an easy time manipulating these parents out of their children. I can't throw blame at them, because they have already paid the ulitmate price, by virtue of being naive. They too bear *some* responsibility, but they are not funding their own demise.

Sofiakat

I think the comments you are talking about are actually based in the fact that so many pre-adoptive parents seek only healthy new-borns and are will to pay whatever it takes in order to have one; meanwhile, if they really wanted to parent, there are hundreds and hundreds of children who are not newborns, in foster care or orphanages which would have minimal cost for adoption fees, who maybe will never be adopted because they are 5 or 6 years old.
If a person truly wants to parent, than age should not be a issue. However, the high demand (and willingness to pay a private agency thousands of dollars to get a "made to order" newborn) seems to be more about filling a dream or wish of having a little blank slate baby to raise as ones own.
So as you can imagine, people may be a bit offended by those who choose to opt for the 10,000 dollar baby business, instead of the 7 year old boy who lives down the street in a foster home with no hope for a "forever" family because he is now considered to "old" to mold into the child that the pap wants him to be.

Mei-Ling

They (birthparents) are oftentimes controlled by a non-democratic government.

That doesn't make adoption "right" - but that is the reality of abandonment.

ETA: Oh stop it with the TDs. Abandonment is a reality in China and no, it doesn't start with the APs.

gypsywinter

""So why does everyone look to blame the people who are forced to pay and not the ones who make it that way?""

What PAP or aparent do you know who is/was 'forced' to adopt or 'forced' to pay the prices that agencies charge? Ever hear of the 'demand and supply' theory? Fewer babies are available for adoption, hence the higher prices and many an adopter is willing to fork over the $$$$$. And who is everyone that has their 'hands in the AP pockets'?? It would be the 'everyone' that the PAP or adoptive parents become the client of, willingly, that would have their greedy hands in the pocket of PAPs...Greed and desperation are a terrible recipe and will be cause for corruption....especially in Adoption Land.

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