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8. Too much propaganda from the Baby Scoop Era

Reply to me b zola (Reply #7)

Thu Sep 10, 2015, 09:30 PM

Sep 2015

Any criticism of the adoption industry is too often seen as a criticism of adoptive parents or even adoptees. While there is a small subset of adoptive parents (I'm thinking of fundamentalists who adopt, abuse and "trade" children out of a religious zeal) who are worthy of criticism, the adoption industry created those situations.

The old idea of adoption as somehow shameful or lesser is a good one to be free of, but the new one of a baby at any cost needs to be rethought. It harms so many people.