baby broker

noun

1. an adoption service, esp on the internet

Example Sentences

Two years later, in January 2008, Dateline NBC showed hidden camera footage of my adoption facilitator plying his trade in the lobby of a Guatemala City hotel, in a segment titled, "The Baby Broker."

From New York Times

But prosecutors say Theresa Erickson was working the system to become an international baby broker, running a birthing factory out of Ukraine that duped at least a dozen U.S. couples into paying $150,000 for children they thought were being adopted legally.

From Seattle Times

"Independent placement" is not illegal in most states as long as no baby broker receives a profit for arranging the deal, but it can produce painful complications.

From Time Magazine Archive