The site gives a lot of facts and figures, but parties interested in adoption do not circumvent any legally required steps in the process. Like other adoption sites what is avoided are the usual newspaper ads or need to use an attorney for contacts. Adoption is an area where it would be difficult to lessen the participation of state and related actors if a person wants a legal adoption because the welfare of children are directly at stake. The potentially depressing on-line cataloged format of children and parents is no more daunting then looking through a photo album in an office. What is protected in the initial stages of the process is privacy.
Birth mothers can consider their options without stigmatization.
Prospective parents, however, do not necessarily avoid the fraud that chokes the system. In the midst of this reality a number of scams have been run on the Internet. In the case of the twice sold twins, the facilitator advertised the newborns on the Internet and in the Yellow Pages. The intermediary in that case was unlicensed. Where in the UK independent adoptions are illegal, they are legal in the U.S. and account for a third of all adoptions.