Silence pervades the adoption industry. Adam Pertman, former executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, in his book,Adoption Nation, asks: Why arent adoption professionals screaming bloody murder distancing themselves from their unethical colleagues? . . .The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys as well as individual lawyers, should be holding press conferences and passing resolutions and demanding disbarment hearings, for example, when colleagues engage in egregious behavior. The adoption industry has fewer ethical guidelines than guide real estate transactions and no incentive to police itself. Adoption is thus a free-for-all marketplace full of unscrupulous baby brokers. Those who pay top dollar for children are often victims of scams and rip-offs. Some sue. Some have won wrongful adoption suits. No such recourse however is available to the victimized mothers whose children are commodified. The U.S. State Department has, in fact, ignored an order by the Guatemalans government to return a kidnapped child, nor have they even complied with requests for DNA testing that would confirm or deny the allegations.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 07:25:01 +0000
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