Adoption is the legal process by which the court's order extinguished and terminates the rights and responsibilities of the biological parents of the child and transfers those rights and responsibilities to the adopter.
Many times parents are quick to give out their children to foreigners for adoption due to various reasons ranging from poverty anxiety and the belief that their children will live a better life abroad.
Many children have fallen victims of the corrupt adoption schemes that are highly networked right from some of the judges, lawyers and the parents. On the 17th/8/2020 the U S slapped financial sanctions on Justice Masalu Musene, J. Moses Mukiibi and two advocates for their involvement in corrupt adoption network. See Www.monitor.co.ug
The law relating to adoption was amended in 2019 with more stringent provisions now requiring the adopting parent to have lived in Uganda for one year, to have fostered the child with the supervision of the welfare and probation officer for one year and courts can now rescind an adoption order.
Parents are warned against being tricked into giving up their own children for corrupt adoption schemes intended to enrich the selfish interest of those involved but to the detriment of the innocent ugandan children who in the end get lured into all sorts of human rights violations..