Judge: Rehoming Kids is Trafficking

Tina Traster - The Daily Beast

A couple in the US is suing an adoption agency that they claim misled them about two children they adopted from Russia. The couple is currently “undo” the adoption of their two adopted Russian children because they say the children’s needs are too great for the couple to meet. The couple claims that the children suffer from serious mental illness, of which the adoption agency did not inform them. The judge in their case has made a preemptive decision to bar the couple from using the “black market” to rehome the children if he rules not to allow the parents to vacate the adoption. The judge in this case considers rehoming to be a form of child trafficking and wanted to create a public record that he has opposed it in this case.