International Adoption: Forming Families or Abducting Children Going into a clothing store to buy clothes can be simple due to having to pick between styles, but adopting a child from another country is something that cannot be compared something simple as buying clothes. In the twenty first century, intercountry adopting has decreased significantly then when it first began back in the nineteen forties. After World War II, the movement of adopting children began, but it was not until after the Korean War that international adoption was considered normal (PBS). Some suggest that adopting can be compared to buying another item online while the risks of taking a child that already belonging to families is common. In contrast, adoptions can create diversity within the countries while lowering the rates of homeless children. Wherever a family decides to adopt from, each adoption differentiates depending on the environment and the circumstances. Besides giving children homes, adoption provides many benefits for the United States as well as other countries around the world. China, for example, participates in the One Child Policy that limits Chinese families on the amount of children they are allowed to have in their family due to control population. …show more content…
Criminals like these make the process of adoption stricter due to the need for criminal activity: “Lemma’s family was scammed by a man who said the girls were being sent to the United States on a study program…Only when the sisters arrived did they realize their legal rights had been signed away to new parents” (CNN). Actions such to these ended up forcing countries to putting a stop on adopting from their country. In 2007, Guatemala was forced to close its adopting agencies due to the allegations the united stated accused the country of. These included child trafficking and coerced, once Guatemala closed, another country took its spot right