The adoption broker who organised the deal and the children's natural mother have both disappeared. While British adoption agencies do not object to advertising for prospective parents on a website, they say the needs of the child must be put first in all private adoptions - by everyone involved. Gill Howarth of the Overseas Adoption Helpline said UK agencies have been advertising for families to adopt for years. Many adoption agencies in the UK have for 20 years or more used different media to raise awareness about the need for adoptive families. That is the reason why the internet is used.
Children have a right to live in secure, loving families.
If the advertisement is a way of procuring profit and money for someone then that is obviously moving away from the needs of the child. Adults do not have an automatic right to adopt. It is totally unacceptable to the BAAF that children are sold to the highest bidder. It is vital that those who wish to adopt from overseas take proper advice before they enter such a minefield. It added that while advertising on the internet was a legitimate way of attracting prospective parents, they all had to be properly vetted before they adopted a child.