Wading through all the bureaucracy around adoption for the THIRD time....( Hoping the third time is the charm.)...it occurs to me that international adoption has created a paradoxical situation. We have only increased child trafficking by trying to prevent it.
The supposed intentions of those who have increased regulations on adoption to the point where it takes $40,000 just to have a chance was to cut down on trafficking. More and more roadblocks were put into place. Something had to stop the international parade of third world exploitation. Adoptions used to be a moving cycle. Western parents to be heard of a place where it was easily possible, and all ran there creating lots of demand. The demand then pushed up the supply of children as middlemen did everything including stealing children to sell them to orphanages. Poor people in various third world countries had discovered roles along the cycle like running an orphanage could be highly profitable. Eventually things got completely out of hand, and a country would have to be shut down to international adoption.
The idea that more bureaucrats checking every step of the process would cure this mess was naive. What I feel it has actually created is institutionalized corruption as well as entirely new levels of straight up corruption. I'm sick of a system I feel was built only to shake me down...where the safety of children is not even a primary concern....
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