How many cases of kidnappings has to be proven before a country completely stops allowing..?

Question

foreigners to adopt and take children out the country?

For example: Guatemala.

Answer 1

adoption takes a long process. an agency has to background checks, and a bunch of other things. and adoption is not the reason for so many cases of people kidnapping children.

Answer 2

There is a simple fix here.

TAKE THE MONEY OUT!!!!

IF these children really need homes and their home countryies truly WANT to find them homes, then let them do it for free, just like our foster care does.

I say let paps pay for them NESECESSARY services: background checks, home visits, education, travel and other NEEDED services just like in a private adoption. No placement fee, no referal fee. then when there is a child needing a home, there will be a large selection of waiting parents.

To fund the whole thing, PAPs could pay a 1 time fee when applying to adopt, that will go STRAIGHT to the government funded program. Doing this would take away the incentive to place children, becuase even if there are 10 children available for adoption, there wil still be 100,000 people in line adn willing to pay that fee, at the risk of no child.

Answer 3

Not sure what your referring to, but for a foreigner to adopt an american child (this just seems rare), they would have to go through a rigorous process with an Adoption agency. I think this ensures that its not kidnapping; true there could still be a abuse.

If you referring to black market kidnappings/adoptions, this seems more rampant in eastern europe and Asia then america.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure it's not based on a number, and besides, that kind of thing can't really be measured when the folks who make the most money are really, really good at hiding what they're doing [ETA:  And the folks who are PAYING the money really don't want anything to be done about it, anyway, because then they wouldn't get their baybee].  My guess is that something will happen when enough attention is drawn to it - which might happen when the exports grow up and start having something to say about the matter.

Answer 5

The problem here is not the adoptions but the government in that country.  If they continue to use adoption as a way to earn money for their government, then they are causing the system to fail themselves.  I am not saying that all adoption agencies are ethical when it comes to any adoption agency, but as long as the government makes a profit from adoption, they are certainly not going to end it or stop children from being removed from the country.