A legal adoption is an arduous process that requires time, background checks and lots of paperwork. But giving a child away can be startlingly easy.

Desperate parents have increasingly turned to an online black market to find strangers willing to take their unwanted children. The practice, called “re-homing,” turns adoption into a dangerous, unregulated and frighteningly simple child handoff that often has grave consequences.

Join New America NYC for a discussion of rehoming and of what can be done, from a policy standpoint, to better protect children when adoptions fail.

Featuring:

MEGAN TWOHEY
Investigative Reporter, Thompson Reuters

STACEY PATTON
Senior Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education Author, That Mean Old Yesterday

ADAM PERTMAN
President, The Donaldson Adoption Institute

LIZA MUNDY
Director, Breadwinners and Caregivers Program, New America Foundation Author, The Richer Sex

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