About Child Trader Child Exchange Agency

 
This project launched in 2003 when our founder, Jason Jacobsen (whom you may have seen on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer last year) found his wife pregnant with their third son. He was delighted with the news of a new child but discouraged that this extra mouth to feed was going to be yet another boy.

Before his son was born, he was teaching Sunday school one day when he met a couple who had three daughters. Jokingly they wondered how great it would be if they could simply swap a child, so both families, separately cursed with an unfair gender mix, could have a little bit more of what they wanted.

They talked about it some more, and since both families were white, the attorneys were able to draft up paperwork and arrange the trade within a few weeks, which was all completed less than 8-days after the birth of his third son, Adam (later renamed Samuel).

Jason had no problem making a trade with a fellow Christian within his congregation, but it got him to wondering how much trouble other parents might be suffering in their attempts to get the kid they actually wanted. A quick Google search and a few hundred attorney hours later the decision was made to create a whole enterprise designed to help other parents connect in ways he himself had once considered unimaginable.

Today, our agency is proud to say we’re the eighth largest child exchange organization worldwide, and the largest organization not listed on S&P’s 50 Adoption Agencies to Avoid (2006). It’s been a long, hard battle and a tough path to follow but it’s also been very rewarding to be responsible for the successful restructuring so many families and witnessing first hand, how much happiness we’ve been fortunate to create.