On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we're discussing Baby Brokers, a Frontline and Retro Report investigation into a loosely regulated corner of the adoption industry known as "adoption tourism." The documentary examines how allegations of misconduct involving for-profit agencies and brokers have mounted over the years.
Journalist Gabrielle Glaser found that pregnant women are being lured far from their home states by unlicensed, so-called 'baby brokers' offering quick money to them, and quick adoptions to hopeful parents.
“When we looked into this practice, we found that lax laws can leave the for-profit adoption industry ripe for abuse — and that Utah is an epicenter of the problem.”
Guest:
Gabrielle Glaser, award-winning journalist, and author of American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Secret History of Adoption
Resources:
The Salt Lake Tribune: Utah’s adoption industry is facing scrutiny. Here’s what to know about ‘adoption tourism.’
Mother Jones: Cradle and All: The devastating cost of Utah’s thriving adoption industry.
The Times: Inside Utah’s ‘human marketplace’ for adopted babies
