Why do people buy babies or kids illegally from the black market ?

I think the people who buy children mostly want them for themselves and have been having a lot of trouble adopting a child. Parents will sell their children because they live in desperate poverty and they have a lot of kids. I think this is pretty standard thing to do in many very poor parts of the world. Usually they use a convenient fiction—that the child is being taken to the city to work. Unfortunately, the work they get is usually prostitution. For younger children, the work they get is to be a professional child for some childless couples.

Some people aren’t able to conceive or legally adopt, so they resort to purchasing children. Sometimes the intentions are not so bad, although definitely seedy and illegal. It is more common in poverty stricken countries, although it does happen more often than one would think.
However, human trafficking tends to lean more toward the malicious, with children being kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery all over the world.

The adoption process is very complicated and time consuming. People may just want to speed things up. There may be a racial component as well. I know a lot of people adopt foreign children, which adds an extra level of complexity, and I believe that part of the reason for this is that it is difficult to find white children to adopt in the U.S.

Some people are so very desperate to be parents, they would do anything to get a child. They tell themselves that they can give the child a “better” life.

Some parents may be so very desperate for food that they sell a child because they believe the child will have a better life.

Some people are predators who misuse children.

The question is very broad. There are probably multiple reasons people would buy or sell babies/children. I would guess above a certain age (sometime in infancy) anyone who would buy a child probably has nefarious reasons. However, as some have already stated there are many couples who cannot have children and the adoption process being what it is, would resort to buying a baby instead of going through the process. Those who sell children probably also have multiple reasons. But on the selling end of it, I really cannot imagine altruism (wanting the child to have a better life) as a primary reason.

This practice and the reasons behind it on both sides would definitely vary by the country including poverty level and social ethics in that country.

@optimisticpessimist beat me to it.

People would sell their child to a loving home if they felt the new parents could better provide for their child and they could not afford themselves. If you think they’re going to a more suitable place and reap some sort of benefit, it’s hard to turn down in a dire situation.

Just to note- There are a lot of cases where “agents” will promise loving homes and essentially sell the children into slavery in people’s homes. Or, they were kidnapped to begin. Purchasing parties are either desperate to have the family they’ve always wanted, or have intentions of mistreating the child.

i think that not alot of people buy kids only because they cant have one maybe its because of that but, sometimes they want them just to get money they can used them for stealing or etc.

I think people would have be tricked to give up their babies, some probably dont even know theyre pregnant. You would have to be out of your mind to voluntarily give up your baby. And the type of people that would buy or facilitate this are utterly dispicable. What would they even tell the kids. Most would just want to exploit the children in some way. Terrible…