Why isnt Warm Blankets Orphan Care involved in foreign adoption?
~ In the areas of the world where the incidence of orphans is high, the value of life and human rights are generally low. Poverty is rampant and corruption is common. This combination of circumstances sets the stage for the unthinkable practice of child trafficking. In underdeveloped third world countries, the selling of babies for adoption to US citizens is a multimillion-dollar business. According to one of Cambodia’s largest human rights organizations, the League for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights (Licadho), the moneymaking potential in foreign adoptions is so great that it has inspired a network of unofficial ”recruiters” who scour neighborhoods in search of young children. These recruiters often manipulate birth mothers with lies or false promises in addition to cash in order to get them to turn over their children. For Warm Blankets Orphan Care to be effective, we have to be above reproach with regard to caring for true orphans. In order to keep children in their nat
