China From 1999–2011 there have been: 66,630 adoptions of Chinese children 60,431 females and 6,199 males 25,605 children aged under 1 year 33,566 children aged 1–2 years 6,904 children aged 3–18 years China has experienced rampant child laundering in past decades, although now it is considered to be better regulated than most other sending countries. China reports about 10,000 kidnappings or abductions a year, although the true numbers are considered by demographers to be much higher. The official statistics are only based on those cases which have been resolved, but it is very difficult to prove that any individual child has been kidnapped and then laundered. Most of these children are from poor families in the rural areas, taken as a result of the profits to be made from Western adoptive families. The Hunan adoption scandal brought many of these issues to light, as orphanages were sending intermediaries into rural areas to acquire children, who were then moved around Hunan and given fraudulent documents in order to cover up their illicit origins. Some argue that the issue of child laundering in China stems from the one-child policy, which created what was once a surplus of children needing adoption. However, since the demand for Chinese children has increased, institutions have resorted to methods like kidnapping in order to meet customer demand and maintain profitability. This logic has been criticized on the grounds that that the system of international adoptions has, in fact, created a mechanism whereby poor families in China are exploited in order to feed the Western demand for Chinese children. This view holds that Western ethnocentric justifications for these behaviors falsely imply that the child will have a better life in the West without any connection to the biological family. Cambodia From 1999–2011 there have been: 2,355 adoptions of Cambodian children 1,369 females and 986 males 1,370 children aged under 1 year 677 children aged 1–2 years 308 children aged 3–18 While most instances of intercountry adoption take two or more years to process, Cambodia has made a policy of expediting this process, often in as few as three months. Human rights activists consider Cambodia to be one of the countries with the most corruption involved in intercountry adoption. LICADHO, a Cambodian human rights group, has expressed that recruiters target poor families and women in their efforts to gain access to young children. Tactics such as the outright purchase