Family and Child Welfare

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 39 : Child Trafficking

Adoption

Children who are orphans or born out of wedlock or born into families that cannot afford to bring them up are put up for adoption. This adoption is meant to be through registered agencies that are meant to ensure the antecedents of the adopting couple and ensure that the child is protected in its adopted home. The complexity with trafficking for adoption is that the children may often land up in situations where they are much better off than they would have been in an orphanage, or even being put in foster care within the country. Nonetheless, the very nature of the transaction wherein there is sale and purchase of the child, makes it trafficking.