Child laundering is a term used to describe the stealing and selling of children to adopting parents where the seller or facilitator hides or falsifies the child's origin to make the child appear to be a legitimate orphan. These children are often taken against either their or their parents will to be sold to adopting parents who are given the false papers and false assurances as to the child's point of origin. Adoption agencies may sometimes be unknowing or knowing participants in the transactions but most adoptions are facilitated by adoption agencies. This type of activity most often appears in international adoptions and is a specific form of child trafficking[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
The term “child laundering” expresses the claim that the current intercountry adoption system frequently takes children illegally from birth parents, and then uses the official processes of the adoption and legal systems to “launder” them as “legally” adopted children. International adoption, or intercountry adoption is a type of Adoption in which an individual or couple becomes the legal and permanent parents of a child born in another country Trafficking of children is the recruitment transportation transfer harboring or receipt of children for the purpose of exploitation Thus, the adoption system treats children in a manner analogous to a criminal organization engaged in money laundering, which obtains funds illegally but then “launders” them through a legitimate business. [6]
Citations
- ^ David M. Smolin,Child Laundering: How the Intercountry Adoption System Legitimizes and Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Stealing Children,also published by the Wayne Law Review. David Mark Smolin (born in New York City, USA) is a professor of law at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama.
- ^ David M. Smoin, Unpublished: Child Laundering As Exploitation: Applying Anti-Trafficking Norms to Intercountry Adoption Under the Coming Hague Regime
- ^ David M. Smolin, The Two Faces of Intercountry Adoption: The Significance of the Indian Adoption Scandals, Seton Hall Law Review
- ^ [1] Adopting Internationally Website
- ^ David M. Smolin, Intercountry Adoption as Child Trafficking, Valparaiso Law Review [2]
- ^ http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3679&context=expresso Quote from Page 115
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