A Child for Sale is a lost[1] 1920 American silent drama film directed by Ivan Abramson, starring Gladys Leslie and Creighton Hale.

[2] Charles Stoddard (played by Hale) is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village.

Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children for $1,000 to a childless rich woman.

[3] The ad campaign for the film included a faux advertisement for selling a child.

[4][5][6] Critic Burns Mantle noted some shortcomings of the film in his review of the "melodramatic opus" in Photoplay,[7] stating that "Ivan Abramson's idea of what constitutes a coherent and convincing dramatic story, taking this picture as a sample, offer many opportunities for the raucous hoot and the mirthful snort.