; (B) contact with unsafe adults or youth; and (C) exposure to unsafe or isolated environments. (6) The caregivers with whom a child is placed through unregulated custody transfer often have no legal responsibility with respect to such child, placing the child at risk for additional unregulated custody transfers. (7) Such caregivers also may not have complete records, including birth, medical, or immigration records. (8) A child adopted through intercountry adoption may be at risk of not acquiring United States citizenship if an unregulated custody transfer occurs before the adoptive parents complete all necessary steps to finalize the adoption of such child. (9) Engaging in, or offering to engage in, unregulated custody transfer is a form of child abuse. 3. Treatment of unregulated custody transfer (a) In general Section 3 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act ( 42 U.S.C. 5101 note) is amended— (1) in paragraph (2)— (A) by striking or an act or failure and inserting an act or failure ; and (B) by inserting , or an unregulated custody transfer after serious harm ; (2) in paragraph (7), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; (3) in paragraph (8), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (9) the term unregulated custody transfer means the abandonment of a child by the child’s parent, legal guardian, or a person or entity acting on behalf, and with the consent, of such parent or guardian— (A) by placing a child with a person who is not— (i) the child’s parent, step-parent, grandparent, adult sibling, adult uncle or aunt, legal guardian, or other adult relative; (ii) a friend of the family who is an adult and with whom the child is familiar; or (iii) a member of the federally recognized Indian tribe of which the child is also a member; (B) with the intent of severing the relationship between the child and the parent or guardian of such child