| Child trafficking is considered as one of the main | | | | most-SLAVERY. Being bought by persons whose |
| concerns all over the world. This is a crime under | | | | purpose is to make use of the child either for |
| international law and in any nation's legislation. | | | | prostitution-with child pornography being one way of |
| A background check on this fact shows that the | | | | getting easy income-or through child labor, are usually |
| issue on child trafficking has presently taken a more | | | | what might happen to the child. An instance of such |
| serious toll in the society. To sell and make profit out | | | | was a story of a little girl in China who was rescued |
| of a child by illegal means is a far out cry from the | | | | from the family who "bought "her. The grandmother |
| peace we wish to have for our own children, | | | | of the family actually suggested buying the child, who |
| especially when they are not under our watchful eye. | | | | was then five years of age, so that in the future will |
| Unfortunately not all parents are like that. When | | | | serve as a housemaid for them. There are some |
| faced with great financial need, there are parents | | | | instances when a child is used for laboratory use as |
| who use their kids to gain money. Whether it is | | | | they are made specimens, or their organs for |
| abandonment, one thing is positive-to sell a child is a | | | | transplants. This is the sad truth in child trafficking as |
| crime. | | | | the possibilities of placing innocence to harm is not so |
| There are cases where out of poverty a mother | | | | far. There are instances however when luck is on the |
| gives up her right to her child as she places him up | | | | child's side as he is placed for adoption. |
| for adoption. Unfortunately, this situation is given a | | | | Not all adoptive parents are likely to get involved |
| more grave aspect with a mother being paid in | | | | with such heinous acts. There are some who adopt, |
| exchange for her child. In some countries, no legal | | | | though in an illegal way, just to have a child of their |
| protection is given to a family and is pressured into | | | | own. This is usually done by people with issues in |
| going the option of selling their child to feed the rest. | | | | fertility. Usually the only background check they can |
| Promises like they will be better off with another | | | | acquire from the child is that of the mother's. The |
| family and other kind promises are the only | | | | rest of the family members are not mentioned |
| assurance that their child is in good hands. Then again, | | | | anymore by the agency to, which they said the child |
| are they? | | | | came from. Unfortunately with child trafficking as the |
| None can do a background check with regards to the | | | | means of adopting the child, it is more likely that the |
| "family" that is going to adopt the child. The | | | | information about the mother is falsified to mislead |
| assurance that the child will be taken care of by | | | | any attempts to get to the child's biological mother |
| good adoptive parents is not entirely definite the | | | | (and for some to ease the doubt from families that |
| mere fact that the child was acquired through illegal | | | | are to adopt). |
| transactions. We can't even say that the "adoption | | | | To use children as monetary means is but a |
| process" can really be called as such. There are many | | | | bothering fact in today's society. People who are |
| ways that a child abandoned in this manner may end | | | | involved in this act is what we can call to as leeches, |
| up somewhere else rather than what the biological | | | | taking the lives of the innocents as a total joke and |
| parents intends to do. | | | | making use of them for personal gain. This is but one |
| There are children, after being abandoned, that are | | | | issue that every nation must resolve fast. |
| brought into the world parents would fear | | | | |