How the Bad Economy Breaks Up Families

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2. I req'd this OP, but what it fails at addressing is children relinquished because of economic reason

Infants "available" for adoption largely come from poor economic circumstance. I realize that the "crack mother" stereotype is widespread, but is a lie. Impoverished women are told relentlessly that their children would be better off without them, thus making infants available to the billion dollar adoption industry.

Can you imagine if as a society we cherished families enough to assist poor mothers in keeping their children rather than relinquishing them to strangers, the child being robbed of their name, heritage, and culture? Now that would go a long way in respecting families.