14/08/2026
BUYING OF CHILDREN IS CONTRARY TO THE LAWS AND COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
And Also Against the Good Tradition of Our People
By Pastor John Obioha Ogoamaka
Introduction
In many places today, the buying and selling of children has become a painful reality. Some people secretly buy children through illegal means, while others use the name of “motherless babies homes” to cover evil practices. This situation has raised many serious questions before God and before society.
A child is not a product to be bought and sold like goods in the market. Every child is created by God and carries the image of God. The Holy Bible teaches us that children are gifts from God.
— Holy Bible Psalm 127:3
When people begin to buy children, many dangerous things enter society:
Human trafficking
Stealing of babies
Encouragement of illicit s*x
Destruction of morality
Selling of human beings like property
Wicked business in the name of helping children
Some women deliberately become pregnant outside marriage because they know they can sell the child afterward for money. Some evil people also steal babies from poor mothers and sell them. All these things are evil before God.
In many African traditions, especially among the Igbo people, children are not bought. A child belongs to a family and a lineage. Even when a couple has no child, the elders look for lawful and honorable ways to help them, not by buying another person’s child as if buying a goat or yam.
This book will explain:
What God says about children
The danger of buying children
The biblical responsibility toward widows without children
Why the practice encourages immorality
The traditional understanding of family inheritance
God’s judgment against oppression and trafficking of humans
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