This piece, published by Reuters earlier this month, is an expansive investigation into the practice of "re-homing," in which parents of adopted children offer those kids for re-adoption through informal, unmonitored networks such as online message boards.
Because she was single, California law prevented her from adopting within the state so she arranged the adoption through an agency in Las Vegas.
Ms. Kest organized the adoption through a New York agency, Spence-Chapin.
Ms. Wecker and her estranged husband, Aaron Wecker, twice agreed to put the girls up for adoption through an Internet service.
Unable to conceive a child, he and Janette applied for adoption through the church and were rejected as unsuitable.
To give Canio company, she adopted Titan, who had been found wandering the streets in Raleigh, N.C., and put up for adoption through the Internet site.
She imagined going on forever this way, through his successful fosterhood and eventual adoption, through weddings and family reunions and funerals, proceeding in parallel past family milestone after family milestone.
Without her father's knowledge, Janina, just 9 years old, was flown in a military cargo plane to a family in New Jersey that had arranged an adoption through Catholic Charities of Trenton.
The Jaffins, who married in 2005 when Ms. Jaffin was in her mid-40s and her husband was past 50, were too old to qualify for adoption through most agencies that handle American children, so they searched overseas.
