Speeding up Haiti adoptions not the answer

Published January 27, 2010

Canadians' hearts are broken by the pictures of Haitian children alone—and they want to help. But parents in Haiti would be even more heartbroken to discover their missing child had been sent to another country before they could be reunited.

For three decades I have seen children suffer following natural disasters when they are most vulnerable. After the 2004 tsunami, child traffickers exploited the situation to send children...