I've gotten a third of the way through and I have to stop reading for a while. This is one of the saddest things I've ever read about. There's no adoption in my family, but several of my closest childhood friends and a younger neighbor were adopted. Just the thought of these poor children being abandoned by the people who are supposed to love them and be their parents is too much to handle. I hope when I finish the article it shows that these pieces of shit adults get some hard time.

Not to be callouse, but let's see...genocidevin Rawanda...massively high murder rate in cities like Chicago, Detroit...100,000 dead and counting in Syria...

I get it...sad story and all that, probably written in a manner to evoke tears...but you re honestly shocked by this?

Hey...guess what...humanity is full of evil...

I'm kind of sorry to see your apparent innocence shattered...but it's probably for the best...

'the deputy wrote in his report that the "parents have severe psychiatric problems as well with violent tendencies."'

When did this deputy get his degree in psychiatry or psychology?

While the practice in the article is disturbing, Reuters investigative disclosures are even more so. Whatever happened to report facts without sensationalism?

@Krellin: The articles portrait an ongoing practice which has at least 5000 victims within the last few years and is shown to be in use for at least 18 years. I wouldn't call that a minor problem, nor can it be compared to other human rights violations. It is a perversity in itself.

@Draugnar: That series has facts in abundance, maybe you did not read it properly. And that is clearly no sensationalist approach to reporting.

The problem is minor in the sense that it is really simple to solve. Implementing a few basic adoption laws like those found throught the west, with one that states that the same standards must be met for international adoptions as internal US adoptions, and it's mostly sorted.

Yes, I agree. But why don't these standards exist? If only for making people aware of that the articles are important.
What disgusts me is that these people trade children like pets. Worse even since they iusually don't get pets to molest them...

And you just implied that people usually get children to molest them. That means, by your implication, that more than 50% of people get children to molest them. I call bullshit. I go back to my statement that this article exaggerates for effect. There are facts and how those facts are presented. The fact that they had been charged but the charges dropped are irrelevant to the argument that the real adoptive parents should have known. The fact that the deputy in the report made a clinical diagnosis is irrelevant because he isn't a mental health professional with a PhD in the subject. These two statements were made for sensationalistic purposes. And they got you riled up to imply that most people get children to molest them. *Some* people do and, belief it or not, *some* people get pets to molest and abuse them.

Partysane....yes, it's tragic, and all that. I get it. But seriously,what world do you live in where you are shocked by this to the point where I wipe your brow and feint, because it was just too much to read?

Really? I guess I just find the dramatic presentation a little much...This *seriously* can't be the first time you have become aware of human trafficking?

As with most things, people here a terrible story and gt all worked up about it...in a week, you will completely forgotten it, this thread will be locked, and none of you will think of it again. *That's* why it *is* a minor problem, because you will get all worked up and emotional *here*, and do nothing about it.

'Not to be callouse, but let's see...genocidevin Rawanda...massively high
murder rate in cities like Chicago, Detroit...100,000 dead and counting in
Syria...'

Does that mean you should do nothing about an unrelated problem? Or are you making the case that if we didn't care about Rwanda then we shouldn't care about child adoptions?

'As with most things, people here a terrible story and gt all worked up about
it...in a week, you will completely forgotten it, this thread will be locked, and
none of you will think of it again. *That's* why it *is* a minor problem, because you will get all worked up and emotional *here*, and do nothing about it.'

Fair point, so you are actually undermining in an effort to generate enough anger to get people to actually act on this. I never knew you could be so noble!