To stop children from being treated as a “commodity” on social media, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is pushing to make adoption an administrative process instead of a court proceeding.
Secretary Virginia Orogo explained in a statement on Thursday that compared to legal adoption, which protects and provides neglected and abandoned children’s inherent rights, adoption facilitated through social media channels is a “violation of children’s rights”.
The DSWD said 25 fraudulent Facebook accounts offering illegal adoption services have already been reported to authorities as of May 2018.

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