In many homes across the US, children are lied to daily about why their parents decided to adopt them, and what their intentions are with them. Mistakes slip through the fingers of companies when a child is told where they came from and why they’re sent to the US. In “International Adoption: Saving Orphans or child trafficking?”, Kevin Voigt states from a teen who was adopted, “Lemma's family was scammed by a man who said the girls were being sent to the United States on a study program, she said.” (Voight 12). Many explanations are along the line of their parents sent them to go to a boarding school, or their parents died when they were a young age and they had to be taken in. Most children don’t even know who they are by the time they get to the US. Other lies are told to the system from parents about what their intentions are when they adopt. From New York Times in Overseas Adoptions by Americans Continue to Decline, Miriam Jordan states, “Other have imposed stringent restrictions after cases of child tranfers and abandonment.” (Jordan 4). The parents who are adopting lie to their child about what happened to their parents and why they were sent to live with them. Some companies know this is happening. They allow the child to be lied to and some even know the child is traded or abused by their adopting family. From the American Prospect International Adoption or Child Trafficking?, E.J. Graff states from a mother, “Guatemalan woman who in March 2007 reported to police that armed men had locked her in a closet and stolen her infant.” (Graff 4) In this specific situation, a mother had her child taken away from her and then sold. When she later found the child she had been living in the US and was up for pre-adoption foster care. Countless times parents who are adopting will tell children their parents had died or sent them away, when they were taken from