On the surface, many may not see the benefits of a child trade, whether outright or for due consideration. Regardless of your pre-conceived notions, which you are strongly encouraged to put aside, there are many very real, very beneficial aspects that come as integral components of the child-trade.

There are many reasons why parents may elect to participate in a child trade:

• -    Child is unmanageable or too manageable,
• -    Child is too sick or so well that rearing does not pose sufficient obstacle,
• -    Child is of the wrong gender,
• -    Too many children of one gender, with none of the other,
• -    Child is too old or too young,
• -    Child is too proficient or deficient at a particular sport or musical instrument,
• -    Just don’t like the kid you have.
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The innumerable benefits of a child trade are very easy to spot. You don’t like what you have, for whatever reason, so you swap him or her out for something better to your liking. We get it, it’s pretty easy and it makes perfect sense.

Let’s look a minute at the downside of child swapping. Sure, it’s been around for hundreds of years and has been validated in many first world nations for almost as long, but we are human beings, and our children are extensions of ourselves, so let’s take a look at the potential detriments of a fair swap of children.

-    You might not like your new child any better, even if he or she is better, because you might be one of those people who just hates kids,
-    You might have thought you wanted a new boy/girl, only to find out it is gay,
-    You might get a child with unacceptable hidden damage (such as to the undercarriage),
-    You might have bargained for a "tall" child, only to get a "sick, but tall" child,
-    On a 1-for-2, you may find the extra mouth to feed is too expensive,
-    You may think you’re getting a Protestant only to later learn he/she is technically a Unitarian,
-    You may have asked for an "outgoing" child, only to learn he/she is a sex abuse survivor,
-    You may have expected a sex abuse survivor only to learn he/she is merely outgoing,
-    You may have sought a more adventurous child only to see him/her die in a tragic extreme sport accident a few months later.

These situations may sound outrageous, but we only mention them because every single one of them has happened to us in our years in the child trade practice. We’ve done more than 9,000 in the past four years alone, so you can rest assured we’ve seen it all.

The bottom line is that nobody can "tell you" the benefits of a child trade. You have to do your own best research, come to your own smartest conclusions, and enter into the transaction of your own free will without any coercion from one of our outside agents. In the end, you will know it’s right because you will feel it in your heart.

The benefits are so many you can’t possibly be expected to understand them upfront. They will become evident as time goes on, even if the thing you gained from the experience is a lesson of "never trade a child." Regardless of what you are going to ultimately learn from this experience, we are here to help.