Intercountry Adoption after the Haiti Earthquake: Rescue or Robbery?

In the first two months of 2010, the plight of orphaned children in earthquake-hit Haiti led to calls for intercountry adoption processes to be expedited, but it also raised the question of whether taking children away from their homeland, even in extreme or impoverished conditions, is the right solution, especially at times of crisis. Peter Selman examines, in the context of other examples of the use (or non-use) of adoption as a response to natural disaster, the varied responses of countries in Europe and North America in the aftermath of the earthquake and how this affected the number of children adopted from Haiti.