Sounds terrible. But is it so terrible if we look deeper?
Is it illegal "black market of maternity" or just one more hope of childless families to become parents?
I'M PREGNANT, AND I WANT TO SELL MY BABY is a common text of dozens of ads in the social webs. There're even special communities that were created for connection of potential "seellers" and "customers" - pregnant women and parents who can't have a baby but they dream of it.
I've found the most famous community, that has alive moderation and curation.
It's the most popular Russian social web VKontakte.
It's the screenshot from the main page.
It says: "Moms, who didn't kill their babies in womb, but want to find a good family for them, it's your way out! Parents, who seek for a baby - welcome!"
As we can see, new ads appear here every day! The last was just yesterday, so the community is alive and very popular.
I've crossed out the names of people, because I'mn't sure I've a right to show them.
All ads are from people who seek for a baby for adoption.
The journalists have found the contact of the founder of this community and contacted her via Skype to know all details of its activity.
So how does it work and for what?
The founder of the community lives in the USA now, but she's Russian, she tells that abroad "open adoption" is common practice, but in Russia it's illegal and it's called "trafficking in children ".
In the USA, as the founder says, it's very popular: pregnant women who can't leave a baby can come to special agencies and choose potential parents for their future baby.
Parents appeal to the adoption agency, receive a conclusion on the possibility of being adoptive parents (they undergo psychological expertise, prove the absence of criminal biography, and so on). They create a portfolio, and biomoms choose what family will be the best for her baby.
The agency has its profit from being a mediator. This Russian web community has no profit.
Moreover, this very woman (the founder) is in the data base of one of such agencies! So she's a childless woman as well, she knows what these women feel, she dreams of a baby too, and it has motivated her to make such a community in Russia.
But she's sure that people must have an alternative for standard adoption, and they must have a choice and a chance to have a baby without the traditional system.
Why? Because we all know what this very system can make with kids, how cruel and cynical it can be. Money decides everything there, and kids become a commodity, but in the legal system. The law seeks for trafficking in children everywhere, but it doesn't see it among authorities.
All parents want to have a healthy baby, but children who are in orphanages at least 1 day can hardly be healthy ever...
The founder gives an example: her friend has 2 babies - one baby was taken from an orphanage, and the second one - through such an alternative scheme. The children are absolutely different! The first child is withdrawn, timid, morose and unsociable, though they live in the family almost the same time.
https://steemit.com/familyprotection/@taliakerch/kids-for-sale-usd1-500-and-a-baby-loses-his-native-parents-forever
https://steemit.com/familyprotection/@taliakerch/orphans-are-money-makers-how-to-get-profit-both-from-adoption-and-from-preventing-it
The purpose of the community is to connect biomoms and potential parents who can't give a birth to a native baby.
Should we judge such pregnant women who are ready to give their baby to another family? You can decide it by yourself. There're so different life situations, and so complicated conditions and life dramas that make these women seek for new parents for their baby who is still inside of them... The most of them are women who just don't have possibilities to grow this baby, they're orphans or they're from Chechnya, Dagestan - such countries, that don't accept baby's birth if a girl isn't married. Or it can be mothers who already have many children but no money to grow up them all etc.
It's worth mentioning, that most of these biomoms even don't ask for money, so it's not baby's sale. Biomoms always worry of their kids and really try to choose them the best parents. Potential parents can pay for her parturition and for good hospital, they can give her money for living while she's pregnant etc. It's called "gratitude " but not payment for the baby".
This scheme is illegal only in the beginning, because CPS don't take part in the process of choosing a baby. But then the process is absolutely legal because CPS and the court make all necessary documents and approve the adoption. Though they often cause many problems for it, and it's rather predictably, because we all know their crazy wish to have profit from adoption! In this scheme they are left without it.
As a rule the process is following: a biomom gives the birth to a baby, then she and an adoptove dad makes documents where he is written as a native father already! In such a case, CPS has no reasons to obstruct them. And then a biomom writes a renouncement from a baby, and an adoptive mom adopts him as a new wife of this dad.
The statistics of the group is very dynamic - about 3-4 adoption per month!
So 3-4 babies gets new loving parents, they're not alone in this world any more, they're not left in terrible orphanages where venal CPS will try to make profit from them.
And 3-4 familes per month becomes happy to be parents, to love and to care of a small baby's heart...
Source
http://rvs.su/statia/chernyy-rynok-materinstva