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What about fostering or adoption? You might think that these options would give you a more normal family life with more personal attention. And local government should still be responsible for monitoring your care. But these alternatives may not be available, and even if they are, they involve a lot of upheaval because children will be moving in with strangers. Another concern is that in many countries there are no reliable mechanisms to make sure that people who adopt or foster orphans have their best interests at heart. There have even been cases of children being adopted and then trafficked — sold into the sex trade or used for unpaid labour, for example. So unless a country has effective procedures for protecting the wellbeing of fostered or adopted children, these may be risky options.

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