Americans Use The Internet To Abandon Children Adopted Overseas

Report: Americans Use The Internet To Abandon Children Adopted Overseas

Through Yahoo and Facebook groups, parents and others advertise the unwanted children and then pass them to strangers with little or no government scrutiny, sometimes illegally, a Reuters investigation has found. It is a largely lawless marketplace. Often, the children are treated as chattel, and the needs of parents are put ahead of the welfare of the orphans they brought to America.

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