Hello, hello, welcome to your extra morning show.

My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we're going to talk about adoption.

But we're not going to be talking about kind of your just everyday run of the mill adoption.

In recent months, we've just been bombarded with endless coverage of

heartbreaking stories of child separation occurring

whether in the United States or abroad.

We saw instances where children were being separated from their parents of the

U.S. Mexico border and in some of the most extreme cases put up

for adoption in America without their parents consent.

As we looked more into it, it turns out that these wrongful adoptions, as they've come to be known, aren't new at all.

And in fact, as of late, intercountry child adoption has become a booming industry.

And so much so that it was massive news where in 2014 Russia banned Americans from

adopting children.

In 2017, China placing stricter regulations on adoption, making it increasingly difficult to navigate

their adoption bureaucracy and most recently in 2018 you had Ethiopia

banning international adoption altogether.

Now it can be argued that most if not all of the people who adopt children from abroad do so with the hope of giving

that child a better life. Many of the kids are faced with abandonment, extreme poverty, and

oftentimes in desperate need of medical treatment and care. But the process of adopting a child

from another country can be very daunting and very expensive.

And because of this, families have historically opted to adopt from countries with fewer regulations,

countries like Uganda for instance. But this has unfortunately also led to corrupt practices and more and more cases of children being

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