New Service Charity Opportunity

The concern that USA couples are adopting kidnapped children in China has been aired for quite a while, such as a few years ago in the Washington Post.

Of course, such an article is controversial, as this response and it's comments shows.

Now the fellow defending Chinese adoptions argues with so many abandoned girls in China, why would anyone bother running the risk of kidnapping babies to supply USA demand? The answer is quality control. Truly abandoned kids have all sorts of medical problems and no doubt, given neonatal psychological development, adopting out truly abandoned kids makes for unhappy adopters within a few years. It is bad for repeat business, and future referred business. One Russian seven-year-old boy was shipped back alone in last month when his American parents found him unsuitable. Return to Sender. Much better to steal happy well adjusted kids from intact families and sell them off to a wealthy American family. The world can be a wicked place, and that is good to know.

In Hong Kong last month I read about a Father searching for his daughter, and it was heart-rending.

So what is the Charity initiative? Set up a charity that gets an agreement for the Party that no kid leaves China without a DNA test, database one, paid for by the wealthy American adoptors. Second, every parent missing a kid in China is given a DNA test, funded again by the adoptive parents, database 2. (This must be done by an independent group, such as a charity, with data secret without a warrant, can't let govt have such info.) Match the two, weed out kidnappings, and let the Communist Party deal with the traffickers. Surely some director of this effort would be worth say $250,000 per year. Now the tricky part comes with kids already in USA. A ten year old kid in USA adopting at one years old presents serious problems. Plenty of parents would be dying to know, many of which would be keen on making some amends. Here again a charity would be better than some political (legal) solution, since some problems cannot be addressed by markets or politics. Maybe a website that lists just the dna code of parents, and USA adoptive parents can have independent USA labs check paternity (and maternity) and then decide what to do.

Of course anything with such high stakes, emotionally and financially would be frught with peril and oppty for fraud. It would take some serious skill to make it work, but it would be real charity, providing a service that a market just cannot serve, since the disaster is outside of the financial capability of the victims.

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