➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
Paraguay: Rich an ‘adopt’ children as domestic help. But that might change.
Washington Post – June 12, 2016
Alvarenga’s experience remains tragically common in Paraguay, one of the last bastions in Latin America of a colonial-era system of child labor known here as “criadazgo.” The practice, in which impoverished rural families allow affluent urban households to informally adopt their children, is still found in Peru and Haiti, as well, but to a much lesser extent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/rich-paraguayans-can-adopt-children-as-domestic-help-but-that-might-change/2016/06/11/5bf65664-28e7-11e6-8329-6104954928d2_story.html