The Diaper Diaspora

Angelina Jolie made international adoptions fashionable. Madonna made them controversial. But celebrities are just the most public faces of a growing global trend. Today, some 45,000 children are adopted each year by foreign parents willing to pay big for a little one.

BY PETER SELMAN | DECEMBER 27, 2006

 SUBJECTS: GLOBALIZATION
 

Peter Selman is visiting fellow at Britain's Newcastle University and chair of the Network for Intercountry Adoption. He is editor of Intercountry Adoption: Developments, Trends and Perspectives (London: British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, 2000).