“Joyce’s book is a powerful call to action, even for those of us who thought we knew something about the ethical issues posed by the adoption industry.”
Jill Filopovic reviews The Child Catchers at Al Jazeera:
What if everything you thought about adoption was wrong? What if there is no international orphan crisis of millions of children needing homes? What if adoptions are not always about finding a child a forever home, but too often involve coercion, misrepresentation or the removal of a child from a family that loves and wants to keep her?
That is the take-away from The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption, a new book by journalist Kathryn Joyce, which examines the Evangelical Christian adoption movement. Christian churches around the US are promoting international adoption as a means of both rescuing needy children and spreading the faith.
