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ADOPTION - Cautions On Child
Laundering/Trafficking With Intercountry
Adoptions
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| Smolin, D.M. (2007). Child
Laundering As Exploitation: Applying Anti-Trafficking Norms to
Intercountry Adoption Under the Coming Hague Regime. 69 p.
“Child laundering occurs when children are illicitly obtained by fraud,
force, or funds, and then processed through false paperwork into "orphans"
and then adoptees. Child laundering thus involves illegally obtaining
children by abduction or purchase for purposes of adoption. My prior work
has documented and analyzed the widespread existence of child laundering
in the intercountry adoption system. This article argues that child
laundering is a form of exploitation, and hence qualifies as a form of
human trafficking. Once child laundering is understood as an exploitative
form of child trafficking, legal and ethical norms currently applied to
human trafficking become applicable. Thus, the Hague Convention on
Intercountry Adoption should be implemented according to its intent as an
anti-trafficking Convention.” http://works.bepress.com/david_smolin/4 |
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| Smolin, D.M. (2006). Child
Laundering: How the Inter-country Adoption System Legitimizes and
Incentivizes the Practices of Buying, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and
Stealing Children. 90 p. In ExpressO; Wayne Law Review 52.No. 1
(2006): 113-200This article documents and analyzes a substantial incidence
of “child laundering” within the intercountry adoption system. Child
laundering occurs when children are taken illegally from birth families
through child buying or kidnapping, and then ”laundered” through the
adoption system as ”orphans” and then ”adoptees.” The article then
proposes reforms to the intercountry adoption system that could
substantially reduce the incidence of child laundering. http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3679&context=expresso |
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