[sunday blogfocus] children and other issues

Dorian Gray or just DK?

It seems appropriate to start a Blogfocus on the theme of Children at the point of birth. Minette Marrin has a longish article on baby-trafficking and celebrities like Madonna who indulge in it: One could say that international baby shopping is fashionable. Indeed the demand is so great that in some places it has turned into a racket. Last week The Sunday Times reported on illegal baby traffic in Bulgaria, where some mothers are forced to sell their babies to dealers to pay debts, and others are cruelly tricked into handing them over for ever. Until two years ago baby trafficking was not a crime in Bulgaria. In Romania, where there are countless orphans in need of a home, the government stopped international adoptions in 2001 after allegations of trafficking. More bloggers here.