REGULATING THE GLOBAL ADOPTION OF CHILDREN.

This article deals with regulating the global adoption of children. Like most transnational activities, international adoption has been strongly criticized, for a multitude of faults. Among the most vehemently asserted are that baby-selling and child-trafficking, bribery and corruption and exploitation of the human capital of poor countries are involved. The fundamental problem underlying the current system is the abundance of children without families. Foreign adoptions have traditionally served humanitarian purposes, while also providing children to the childless. The dialectic between providing homes for children and providing children for parents must be recognized.