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Nothing But Corruption And Exploitation

without violence, there won't be international adoption

Forum: Strap-on.org
Date: 05/04/2004

lori hollet wrote:

Also, there was a very chilling article in the New York Times Magazine a few years ago on the Cambodian baby trade and how in recent years there have been freezes of adoption while investigations of corruption in the adoption system (and potential exploitation of birth parents) are being made.

"Corruption" and "exploitation" are inadequate to describe what have been happening in Cambodia, as well as in Guatemala, Honduras, and several other countries: there have been many cases of blatant kidnapping by the organized crime to fulfill the demand for healthy infants (diseased and older children have lower values) in the West.

Of course, even when the organized crime is not involved, how is it different from when the U.S. government would come in to their countries to support military dictatorships or right-wing militias that kill hundreds of thousands of people in political repression or civil war, then as the result the children become orphans?

Or for that matter, when the U.S. government forces other governments to adopt privatization and laissez-faire economy through the IMF which results in massive poverty and unemployment in the said country, causing many parents to give up children for economic reasons?

Considering the fact that no U.S. children are being adopted by foreign families, I would question if there would be any international adoption had it not been for "corruption and exploitation." The whole concept of international adoption was invented by Christian fundamentalists in rural Oregon, who supposedly felt sorry for the poverty and malnutrition Korean orphans were in in the 1950s but not sorry enough to have done anything to stop the American troops from killing Korean adults. You can read the story at:

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adoption/people/holt.htm