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Article: Intercountry adoption: who are the good guys?(legal notes)
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- Policy & Practice
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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The January 5, 2005, CNN headline read, "Trafficking a threat to tsunami orphans." Within days after the tsunami hit, Indonesia had begun putting into place policies that prohibited any child under age 16 from leaving the country. Why? The Indonesian Embassy's press secretary in Washington explained that "the government would like to protect the children from potential traffickers." It had cause for concern--estimates of children trafficked each year range from a half a million to 4 million.
Is this concern sufficient to interfere with legitimate intercountry adoption? Indeed, is intercountry adoption an act of unparalleled altruism, or is it a sly way of ...