Editing Adoption (section)

==Commercialized adoption==
{{See also|Adoption fraud}}
Adoption is usually managed by judges, bureaucrats and social workers. Profiting from giving or receiving orphans has incentivized abusive practices.<ref>{{cite news |title=£700 for a child? Guatemalan 'baby factory' deals in misery and hope |last=Tuckman |first=Jo |date=13 March 2007 |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/14/jotuckman.international}}</ref>

===Baby farming===
{{Main|Baby farming}}
[[Baby farming]] is the practice of accepting custody of a child in return for payment. This was most common in Victorian Britain. [[Legitimacy (family law)|Illegitimacy]] and its attendant [[social stigma]] were usually the impetus for a mother's decision to give her child to a baby farmer. Baby 'farmers' would sometimes neglect or murder the babies to keep costs down.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}

===Child harvesting===
{{Main|Child harvesting}}
[[Child harvesting]] is the practice of rearing human children to be sold, typically for adoption. Poor mothers have used street clinics, known as "baby factories", to deliver babies to be adopted by richer women for payment.<ref name=bbcnews1>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54892564|title=The baby stealers|date=15 November 2020|access-date=8 April 2024|work=BBC News}}</ref> While this can be voluntary, baby factories have also coerced or abducted women into such facilities to be raped in order to sell their babies for adoption.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43905606|title=Nigeria 'baby factory' raided in Lagos|date=26 April 2018|access-date=5 December 2023|work=BBC News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-19718084|title=Nigerian's battle to keep her baby|date=26 September 2012|access-date=5 December 2023|work=BBC News}}</ref> Organized rings in [[Nairobi]] are known to abduct the children of homeless mothers sleeping on the street.<ref name=bbcnews1/> During the [[One Child Policy]] in China, when women were only allowed to have one child, local governments would often allow the woman to give birth and then they would take the baby away. Child traffickers, often paid by the government, would sell the children to orphanages that would arrange international adoptions worth tens of thousands of dollars, turning a profit for the government.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdkHA_-xryk |publisher=YouTube | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211029/RdkHA_-xryk| archive-date=2021-10-29|title='One Child Nation' Exposes the Tragic Consequences of Chinese Population Control|work=[[Reason TV]]|date=2019-08-16}}{{cbignore}}</ref>