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Have adoption agencies turned into money making entities?

Hundreds of Kenyan children are being taken out of the country every year to be offered for adoption in foreign countries, it has emerged.

Documents filed in the High Court, in a dispute between agencies licensed to conduct adoption of children, show demand for Kenyan children has risen in recent years with more boys being taken out than girls.

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