| has gloss | eng: Child laundering is the stealing and selling of children to adopting parents under false pretenses. Often the adoption agency or adoption facilitator hides or falsifies the childs origin to make the child appear to be a legitimate orphan by manipulating birth certificates, intake records, or records regarding the deaths of the childs parents who might still be alive. These children are often taken against either their will or the will of their parents to be sold to foreign adopting parents who are given the false papers and false assurances as to the child's point of origin. |