"After reading your article, it reassured my conviction that I really have no sympathy for people who get scammed in the international adoption process ("The Adoption Scam," 5/23/07). First of all, international adoptions are nothing more than legalized human trafficking and black-market baby exchanges. Second, there are more than 1,000 children in Minnesota's foster care system alone, with at least 600 of those children waiting to be adopted (for free through the county or through Minnesota Children's Home Society), most over the age of six years old, so there is little reason to have to leave the state or country to adopt a child—unless, of course, your purpose is to adopt a white baby or you feel the need to ride the trend and adopt from eastern Asian countries so you can wear your child like an accessory. . .
--Craig Kohner
The City Pages
Minneapolis/St. Paul"
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