“They found entire message boards on Yahoo and Facebook dedicated to advertising adopted children and estimate that 70 per cent of the children offered were foreign-born adoptees.
They come from countries all over the world, and range in age from as young as 10 months old to teenagers.
Reuters analyzed 5,029 posts on one Yahoo group page over five years.
One adoptive mother’s post from March 2012 for her 12-year-old daughter reads: ‘I would have given her away to a serial killer, I was so desperate.’
One adopted child from China says after she was re-homed, her new parents made her dig her own grave.”
- Inside America’s underground network for adopted children where the unwanted as young as 10 months old are advertised online and placed with strangers by parents desperate to get rid of them | Mail Online
They come from countries all over the world, and range in age from as young as 10 months old to teenagers.
Reuters analyzed 5,029 posts on one Yahoo group page over five years.
One adoptive mother’s post from March 2012 for her 12-year-old daughter reads: ‘I would have given her away to a serial killer, I was so desperate.’
One adopted child from China says after she was re-homed, her new parents made her dig her own grave.”
- Inside America’s underground network for adopted children where the unwanted as young as 10 months old are advertised online and placed with strangers by parents desperate to get rid of them | Mail Online