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This project launched in 2003 when our founder, Jason Jacobsen (whom you may have seen on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer last year) found his wife pregnant with their third son. He was delighted with the news of a new child but discouraged that this extra mouth to feed was going to be yet another boy.
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How on earth could a parent even consider doing this??
About Child Trader Child Exchange Agency
This project launched in 2003 when our founder, Jason Jacobsen (whom you may have seen on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer last year) found his wife pregnant with their third son. He was delighted with the news of a new child but discouraged that this extra mouth to feed was going to be yet another boy.
Before his son was born, he was teaching Sunday school one day when he met a couple who had three daughters. Jokingly they wondered how great it would be if they could simply swap a child, so both families, separately cursed with an unfair gender mix, could have a little bit more of what they wanted.
They talked about it some more, and since both families were white, the attorneys were able to draft up paperwork and arrange the trade within a few weeks, which was all completed less than 8-days after the birth of his third son, Adam (later renamed Samuel).
Jason had no problem making a trade with a fellow Christian within his congregation, but it got him to wondering how much trouble other parents might be suffering in their attempts to get the kid they actually wanted. A quick Google search and a few hundred attorney hours later the decision was made to create a whole enterprise designed to help other parents connect in ways he himself had once considered unimaginable.
Today, our agency is proud to say we?re the eighth largest child exchange organization worldwide, and the largest organization not listed on S&P?s 50 Adoption Agencies to Avoid (2006). It?s been a long, hard battle and a tough path to follow but it?s also been very rewarding to be responsible for the successful restructuring so many families and witnessing first hand, how much happiness we?ve been fortunate to create.
I can't believe this isn't illegal and that child protective services aren't all over these people and these organizations!
Re: How on earth could a parent even consider doing this??
"Agency Comments: The feet on this girl are beyond suspect. At the rate these clompers are growing you?re going to have an eleven foot giant on your hands by sixteen. May become Amazon, but may incur high shoe and transitional clothing costs and/or undue boy attention upon puberty. Bookish nature may offset growth potential, but consider cost compensation accordingly."
Desired Trade: We want a 13-year-old girl who will listen, not wear makeup and not go out with boys when she says she?s going to the library. We will also consider cash or jet ski, snowmobile, depending on year, make and model.
Wow...thats crazy
At first I kept thinking "this has to be a joke". (I hope it truly is a sick joke). But there are some pages that seem very real.
My heart broke when I read "how to prepare yourself (for the trade)"
After I read the "tips on saying goodbye" I had to figure this out. I checked Snopes, but they mostly do email hoaxes. If you do a web search, I found this site that says it's not real.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/permalink/child_trader/
Thank god - I was starting to lose all faith in humanity!
thanks for finding this. I'm going to believe that it IS a hoax, because my heart just can't take there are people out there that would do this!
I am going to go with a hoax as well. "How to Prepare to Say Good Bye" REALLY?! What mother, after 9 months of bonding with a child, decided that "hey, I really wanted a girl and I think a trade is much better idea!"
That made me sick - almost as sick as the baby video stephanie posted yesterday.?