Child selling

Child-selling is the practice of selling children, usually by parents, legal guardians, or subsequent custodians, including adoption agencies, orphanages and Mother and Baby Homes.

[13] According to a 2006 report, low-income families and unwed mothers sell babies, often girls, in the underground market in China, and the sales are to parents who want servants, more children, or future brides for sons.

"[15] According to a 2007 English newspaper report,[16] in China, 190 children were snatched every day, but the Chinese government did not acknowledge the extent or cause of the problem.

Zhang Baoyan, founder of the non-government organisation Baby Back Home, said the database is the most effective way to reunite families.

However Zhang Baoyan, founder of Baby Back Home, said that "there are still some parents of missing children who have no idea about the DNA database".

A 2013 English news magazine report[18] describes Xiao Chaohua, a campaigning parent of an abducted child, as believing that the authorities could be doing a lot more.

[57] Tann, apparently disagreeing with the prevailing view,[58] argued (against her own belief)[58] that children were "blank slates",[59] thus free of the sin and genetic defects attributable to their parents,[58] thus making adoption appealing,[48] and providing a way for children who might otherwise have been dead[60] to survive and receive care.

[62] A sale by a midwife occurred in New Orleans, Louisiana,[63] a child was sold twice on one train ride,[63] and one "father ... traded his unborn daughter for a poker debt.

[64] In 1997–2001, Lauryn Galindo "made $8 million by arranging eight hundred adoptions of Cambodian children by unwitting Americans", one being Angelina Jolie.

[66] Galindo, saying she intended "to save children from desperate circumstances" and that she felt she acted "with the highest integrity", was convicted in the U.S. and sentenced to a year and a half in prison.

[68] Worldwide, in recent years, according to reporter Barbara Bisantz Raymond, brokers steal and sell children.