Oklahoma Adoption Laws, Page 8

Use of Advertising and Facilitators in Adoptive Placements

Statute: Title 21, § 866(A)(1)(e)-(f)

The crime of trafficking in children includes:
- Advertising of services for compensation to assist with or effect the placement of a child for adoption by any person or organization except by the Department of Human Services or a child-placing agency licensed in this State. Nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit an attorney authorized to practice law in Oklahoma from the advertisement of legal services related to the adoption of children.
- Advertisements for and solicitation of a woman who is pregnant to induce her to place her child upon birth for adoption, except by a licensed child-placing agency or an attorney authorized to practice law in Oklahoma.
- Nothing in this section shall prohibit a person from advertising to solicit a pregnant woman to consider adoptive placement with the person or to locate a child for an adoptive placement into the person’s own home, provided that such person has received a favorable preplacement home study recommendation in accordance with § 7505-5.1 of this title.

Statute: Title 21, § 866(A)(1)(a)-(d)

The crime of trafficking in children includes:
- The acceptance, solicitation, offer, payment, or transfer of any compensation, in money, property, or other thing of value, at any time, by any person in connection with the acquisition or transfer of legal custody or adoption of a minor child, except as ordered by the court or as provided by law.
- The acceptance or solicitation of any compensation by any person or organization for services performed, rendered, or purported to be performed to facilitate or assist in the adoption of a minor child, except by the Department of Human Services, a licensed child-placing agency, or an attorney.
- Bringing or causing to be brought into the State any child for the purpose of placing such child in a foster home or for the adoption thereof without first complying with the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC). This provision shall have no application to the parent or guardian of the child nor to a person bringing said child into the State for adopting the child into such person's own family.

Credits: Child Welfare Information Gateway (http://www.childwelfare.gov)