[ipaddr]

The biggest problem agencies have is getting parents to come down. By advertising with pictures people will emotionally bond with a specific child which will prompt them to go through the long, expensive agency adoption process.

Charities use images of children to sell the charity.

[dymk]

Yeah, that still strikes me as gross and undignified, and I don't buy the premise that you need to show specific images of specific children that are available for adoption _right now_ to increase the rate at which parents come down.

> Charities use images of children to sell the charity.

Note that they're not selling the children.