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In reply to the discussion: Can a straight, white male liberal ever truly suffer at the hands of our culture? [View all]StevieM
(10,578 posts)their consent.
Men who want to keep their children are routinely denied that right. The adoption industry does not care if the baby has a father who wants to raise it. They will tell any lie they have to in order to facilitate an adoption. They lie to the courts as easily as they breathe. They place the child with prospective adoptive parents and then drag the case on for years. Then they claim that the father didn't show interest or a willingness to support the baby, knowing full well that this was not the case.
Gay men can get a woman pregnant, but it happens far less often than with straight men. A woman's signature is always needed on the adoption papers. And black babies are not targeted as relentlessly by the adoption industry, which has a disgusting practice of pricing babies by race and ethnicity--the blonder, the better. Black women are far less likely to be pressured into giving up their child by their church, family or friends. (The relinquishment rate is far lower among African-Americans, which is a good thing IMO).
To be clear, I fully recognize that women are the primary victims of coercion when it comes to adoption.
But the rights of straight white men--and their children--are often denied when it comes to parenting. I'm not even talking about custody. I am talking about involuntary TPRs (termination of parental rights) and a man's children being raised by genetic strangers without his permission.