Author: Jordan Bunn PDF: Regulating Corruption in Intercountry Adoption Abstract The current regulatory system for intercountry adoption has failed parents, children, and governments. Impoverished parents and children have been exploited by crooked adoption agencies, orphanage directors, and bureaucrats looking to profit from well-meaning prospective parents who will pay significant fees in order to adopt. While the 1993 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children and Coop

“Those who believe in children’s human rights need to promote children’s basic human right to be liberated from the conditions under which they live in orphanages or on the street and to grow up with parents who can provide the loving nurturing that is essential for human flourishing.” — Elizabeth Bartholet “In short, there is a struggle for the soul of the human rights movement, and it is being waged in large part through the proxy of genealogy.” — Philip Alston “[A]doptio