Adoption as a Mode of Committing Child Trafficking
Adoption as a Mode of Committing Child Trafficking

Author(s): Dóra Ripszám
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Criminal Law, Criminology
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Источном Сарајеву
Keywords: Child trafficking; Adoption;
Summary/Abstract: Illegal adoptions violate numerous child rights norms and principles, including the best interests of the child, the principle of subsidiarity and the prohibition of improper financial gain. Specific supply and demand conditions prevail in the adoption market. On the demand side are solvent parents awaiting adoption, who often want to have a child in this way because of their infertility and are thus willing to make a high price/sacrifice. On the supply side, we can distinguish two groups. One group is made up of parents who, for various reasons, are unable to raise their child. They give up all their materials for their child without consideration. The other group is made up of parents who, although not free, are willing to hand over their already born child above a certain price. Whenever illegal procedures are used during an international adoption, the child's identity is likely to be compromised. In the case of child trafficking, for example, children lose their knowledge of their fraud, ethnic roots and medical history forever.

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