The Stork Market by Mirah Ruben is an in depth examination of the corruption in the adoption industry: the fine line between black and gray market adoptions; scams; coercion and explanation in a market based on supply and demand with prices based on quality such as age and skin color of the merchandise and set as high as desperate consumers are willing to pay.

The Stork Market has been extensively researched, documented and including interviews with the top adoption experts. The Stork Market asks if adoption can be fixed where the money aspect is removed and government controls and regulations put in place or abolished in favor of permanent guardianship or informal adoption that does not involve the issuance of an amended birth certificate present in current adoptions to fortify myths of replicating creation.

An international perspective is brought to the book. The forward is by Evelyn Robinson from Australia. The forward to The Stork Market can be read online at http://www.advocatepublications.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=82.

The publishers website has a few comments available from Rickie Solinger, who is the author of Wake Up Little Susie and Annette Baran, MSW, LCSW who is the co-author of The Adoption Triangle. Rickie Solinger is quoted saying “This book—a wonderful and well-integrated mix of approaches —part analysis, part case studies from the front lines, part hand-book, part up-to-date law and policy review—is a testament to Riben's powerful and enduring commitment to the rights and needs of vulnerable women and their children. Riben's book is a clear, bright blueprint for change.”


Annette Baran, MSW, LCSW is quoted saying “Once again, as in Dark Side, Riben has pulled back the covers and exposed the unpleasant truths and problems that need to be addressed in American adoption practices….the conclusions that Riben comes to are inarguable. Most impressive on every count ….well researched and thought out.”

Mirah Riben is also the author of The Dark Side of Adoption. According to the website at http://www.advocatepublications.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=29 this book is out of print and no longer available in bookstores.

She was a former Director of Large of the American Adoption Congress, is co-founder of Origins, which is a New Jersey based national organization for women who have lost children to adoption.

Mirah has been a keynote speaker for the American Adoption Congress and has also spoken at other conferences including Adoption Forum, Council on Equal Rights in Adoptions, Origins, and Concerned United Birthparents.

Mirah is the mother of four and one of whom was lost to adoption shortly after birth and is now deceased.