Reddit mentions of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption

Here is a well-researched book that looks at the church adoption culture.

https://www.amazon.com/Child-Catchers-Rescue-Trafficking-Adoption/dp/1586489429/

https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/14/china/china-child-trafficking-bust/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/12/health/uganda-adoptions-investigation-ac360/index.html

tldr; The Evangelical adoption subculture unknowingly contributes to babies being stolen from poor villagers. The children being adopted are not orphans but have parents and other family members still alive that love them and want them. Foreign child adoption is expensive which means all of the middle men make a lot of money and are incentivized to find more kids and trick poor people into "sending their kids to boarding school."

there was an amazing book written about this a few years back that basically outlines this child-stealing strategy among the especially crazy rind of evangelicals known as the "Quiverfull" movement:

The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption

NPR interview with author Kathyn Joyce: How Evangelical Christians Are Preaching The New Gospel Of Adoption

it's an offshoot of dominionism, the theology that tells Christians they have the right to take anything (or anyone) they want, because God

Trans-racial adoption isn't some crazy moon-language terminology, whether you agree with this drama or not. It's a topic that's the subject of heated debate in the American overseas adoption industry (and it's definitely an industry), which is currently undergoing a lot of much-needed scrutiny for being egregiously predatory.

I just recently read a really good book on the subject called The Child Catchers, which I can't recommend highly enough.

And helps fuel the child adoption trafficking industry under the guise of "save the brown kids and bring them to white Christian homes"...

Child trafficking is big business, especially among religious types. This book about the subject made me sick to my stomach:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Child-Catchers-Trafficking-Adoption/dp/1586489429

Many countries are implementing international adoption bans because of this and rightly so.

The real reason the right is so anti-choice is the fact that many fundamentalist churches make huge sums of money on adoptions.

They shame young mothers into giving up their babies and can sometimes make as much as $100,000 per child brokered.

Many babies are exported because the US is the only country where wealthy Caucasian couples from the EU, UK, Australia, South Africa, etc. can find adoptable children without tons of red tape.

Now with their only competition blocked in the US, the brokers can demand top dollar. (Perhaps the religious rightists paid off the notoriously corrupt Duma?)

EDIT: added more links:

"Adoption And The Role of the Religious Right" by Mirah Riben

http://works.bepress.com/mirah_riben/7/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Child-Catchers-Trafficking-Adoption/dp/1586489429

http://www.care2.com/causes/abortion-is-killing-adoption-says-the-religious-right.html

There is kind of an adoption industrial complex associated with the Evangelicals and the "Pro-Life" movement. It has it's own set of problems. Kathryn Joyce wrote a book about it.