Tuesday Map: 'Where do babies come from?'

Posted By Joshua Keating Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 6:45 PM Share

If you haven't yet had a chance to read E.J. Graff's superb piece "The Lie We Love" from our November/December issue, it's now available for free on ForeignPolicy.com. The piece is an exploration of the dark side of global adoption and the myth that millions of healthy babies are waiting for adoption in the developing world. Too often, Graff argues, these infants are "manufactured" to meet Western demand.

To accompany the piece, Brandeis University's Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism has put together this online map showing the countries where the most serious adoption irregularities occur. Click through for in depth country data and check back as more countries are added:

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FRANK

12:33 AM ET

December 3, 2008

"Corruption" is an

"Corruption" is an appropriate tag. Looks like the map link leads to a spyware site.

 

JOSHUA KEATING

7:50 PM ET

December 3, 2008

All safe

The map's creator, Claire Pavlik Purgus, writes in:
I have confirmed with my web hosting company that there is no spyware or viruses on my website.

The Schuster Institute has chosen to keep the interactive map "Where do babies come from" in this location due to constraints within the Brandeis University web publishing environment. I want to reassure you and your readers that there is no spyware on the site.

 

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