The Baby Market

Anne Moody has been the co-director of an agency specializing in infant adoption for the past 24 years. She is the author of The Children Money CaBuy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption, published in 2018 by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also an adoptive parent and both her professional and personal background inform her work as an adoption specialist who advises clients on all aspects of the adoption experience. Anne is a contributor to Adoptive Families Magazine, Chicagonow.com’s “Portrait of an Adoption” Series, Adoption.com’s Adoption Summit, and PairTreeFamily.com.

Glossary

Introduction



The Vagaries Of The Market Place
Owen and Kira: An Adoptive Family Story
Why Is Adoption So Hard?
Lindy: A Birth Mother’s Story
Where Does All the Money Go?
Yes, It’s Legal
Middle Men
Julia: A Single Adoptive Mother’s Story
Birth Mothers In The Media
Did Birth Mother’s Change?
What Will We Tell the Children?
What About The Siblings?
Matt and Hannah: A Foster-To-Adopt Story
What About All the Kids In Foster Care?
Working With The Child Welfare System
Not To Scare You…But
Adoption Specialists
Adoption Reform
Closing the Gray Market

Afterword