Description: What is adoption trafficking? Human trafficking through adoption happens around the world. Anti-Adoption Trafficking Initiative educates and advocates for human lives and human rights.
Adoption is defined as “ the action or fact of legally taking another's child and bringing it up as one's own, or the fact of being adopted. ”
Recruitment of Suppliers and Buyers
Adoption trafficking involves the crimes of baby farming and child harvesting . Baby farming was popularized during the 19th century, primarily in Britain and the U.S. as a way for mothers to exchange custody of their child for a fee. “Baby farmers, usually middle-aged women, solicited these infants through "adoption" advertisements in newspapers, and through nurses, midwives, and the keepers of lying-in houses (private houses where poor, unwed women could pay to give birth and arrange for the transfer of t