International kidnap-to-adoption ring uncovered

If you have hard evidence that you money has not been used to fuel the kidnapping business, you should be respected.

Still, it is important that:
1. Legal actions should be taken to make sure money is not used to fuel kidnapping, the same way it is not used to fund terrorists!

2. Only those who have a history of successful relationship should be allowed to adopt a child!

If your money motivate the kidnapping, you are responsible for the crime.

I have seen kind people adopting children with disability. I have the highest respect for them.

Healthy infants are seldom abandoned. Where are all these healthy 'orphans' from?

I have seen self-disciplined, smart kids who are sadden by the relationship between them and their 'adoptive parents.' It is easy to love a baby or a toddler, but is everyone equipped to deal with issues that would come when the child grow older? Is everyone able to love a trouble making teenager? No!

I have seen a psychologically broken woman who has the ability to maintain an amiable relationship with one person--herself. As a parent, you probably will not let your children spend much time with her. However, she adopted a healthy girl and suddenly, she is flaunting her 'daughter' and her bought 'motherhood'. She can now do all sorts of irresponsible things with the excuse of 'being a mother'. Moreover, She can now hang out with real parents. People, think beyond this, maybe the real parents of her adopted little girl are crying their hearts out trying to have their little girl back at this very moment!!!

I am an adoptive parent with children from China. I am fully supportive of anything that can be done to cease and eliminate the financial incentives for the kidnapping of children who are then placed into the adoption networks around the world, both domestic and international. However, I take great offense when the words "sold to an adoptive family" are used to describe the way this particular adoptive family has brought the child into their family.

If you read Mr. Carney's story in Mother Jones, you see that the adoptive family of Sabash worked with a licensed adoption agency in the United States. It was this agency, not the family, who had not done their due diligence in investigating the child's background. The family did not buy a child. They paid an agency for a service that they believed was legitimate and legal. The adoption agency should be wearing the scarlet letter on its chest for not being better informed about where its money was going when they facilitated Sabash's adoption.

As for the adopting family, their fault lies with denying their child access to his birth family. How sad that their own fears are being put ahead of their child's interests. They wouldn't have to address this with Sabash at his current young age - they could establish a parent to parent relationship now and when the boy is of an age to better understand, introduce the birth family to him through his story, photos, letters, and hopefully, eventually, in person. (I agree with Mr. Carney that to return Sabash to India now would be morally wrong - it would cause great emotional hurt to the child.)

How tragic that many adoptive parents are in fear of their children's birth parents, the ones who gave them the gift of their children. But this family did not purchase their child.