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“Chinese parents compete with foreign applicants to adopt healthy babies- It now takes nine to 10 years on average to adopt a healthy child from Shanghai’s orphanages. Due to the shortage of healthy adoptable kids, many people have turned to an underground market to find children from dealers.” From Global Times.
An obstetrician was found guilty of selling newborn babies. ( Trust.org) Twin baby girls rescued as China maternity hospital trafficking probe continues.(CNN)
Four websites were found selling children under the guise of adoption. (Guardian, Daily Mail and South China Morning Post)
A cross-border organisation involved in trafficking of babies and pregnant women from China. (China.org and W China Times)
This is the kind of work I want to do professionally – preventing illicit activities for the purpose of adoption from happening. What’s so crazy to me is how stark the global inequality is – you really see this with the first article you posted from the GlobalTimes. Did you make the graphic? Thank you for bringing to light such a critical issue.
thanks for commenting. Yes, I did the graphic.