Haiti in process of fixing broken adoption process

Absent from the legislation is any reference to Haiti’s informal internal adoption system, in which parents hand over their children to other families to clean homes and do other chores in exchange for money or school tuition. Between 250,000 and 500,000 children in Haiti are forced to work as domestic servants known as “restaveks,” Haitian Creole for “stay with,” according to sources within the Haitian government.

The government has created a “restavek” hotline for people to call and report cases of abuse, Villedrouin said.

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