Notorious Baby Farms And Criminals Still Exist

Notorious Baby Farms and Criminals Still Exist The United States and many other countries still have notorious baby farms and criminals who make profit by abusing infants and children. In similar cases, criminals abuse and exploit women for their profit. The practice of baby farming began in the Victorian Era and still continues, just not as common as it used to be in the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. During this era, adoption agencies and social agencies did not exist. Instead, untrained women offered foster care and adoption services to single mothers. Single mother would hand over their babies with about fifteen pounds and trust. Criminals who trade and abuse babies still exist and are not easy to forgive. Countries

Overpopulated countries like Nigeria and India are full of single mothers, their kids, and poverty. Because many of us live free, we don’t understand what other humans face. In other words, life is very tough for them, every single day is long and challenging. With or without adoption and child care agencies, the world still have a massive number of suffering families consisting of a lonely mother and her child. Some laws were placed to protect infants. For example, the “Born alive Infants Protection Act of 2002” is an Act of Congress. As written in the H.R. 2175 (107th), “It extends legal protection to an infant born alive after a failed attempt at induced abortion.” (H.R. 2175) However, this one law is not enough. Most state legislatures have enacted different laws than other states, each for the same topic of infant protection. The ‘Safe Haven Laws’, also known as “Baby Moses Laws”, which differ from state to state just like many other

Infants have inalienable rights, meaning that he/she have rights that cannot be “taken away, denied, or transferred.” (dictionary.com) Today, Nigeria is full of baby farms where many illegal procedures take place. One procedure includes fake birth. In this procedure, women are injected with hormones that make their belly swell, in other words, giving the appearance of pregnancy. 9 months after this procedure, the woman is called back for a incision into their belly, also known as a fake Caesarean scar. After this scar, the woman leaves with a baby that is not naturally hers. Nigerian authorities claim have discovered baby farms in the past, that were eventually taken care of. In 2013 one police station took 106 children into care. (Aljazeera). Girls in Nigeria, majority of them are under 18, are forced into compensation. Compensation means being promised or rewarded something that will make one’s life easier. Not all women are offered compensation. Some are directly forced to produce children that will later be