13th October 2006

How to buy a baby

People who adopt are regularly accused of “buying a baby”.

Now, here’s how to go about it.

Find yourself a small, extremely poor African country.

Offer that country millions of dollars to start an orphanage.

Mention that, oh, by the way, you’d like to adopt.

Watch the country trot out 12 likely candidates for you, and fall all over itself ignoring its own laws requiring out-of-country couples seeking to adopt to reside there for a year before applying.

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