adoption

With all the posturing as to whether or not a fetus is deserving of autonomous rights, a major aspect of the abortion debate that entangles it up with adoption has become overlooked until a footnote from the CDC on page 34 in the infamous leaked majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade which addressed the supply […]
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Louisiana HB 568 has been proposed to avoid those seeking to adopt from being scammed, a very worthwhile and needed goal.   Having your hopes and dreams – not to mention thousands of dollars – stolen from you, at a vulnerable time, is devastating and should never happen. However, the solution proposed by House Bill 568, sponsored […]
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Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Justice’s recent comments about adoption during oral arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization set off a firestorm of responses and op-eds.  Some focused on the irony of the American Right invoking “My body, my choice” regarding Covid vaccines and mask mandates. More outrage, however, […]
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In “The Son My Sister Placed for Adoption Wants to Find Her. What Should I Do?”, NY Times, October 26, 2021, Ethicist Kwame Anthony Appiah questions the ethics of confidentiality versus a right to know one’s biological ancestry for those separated by adoption. The case at hand involves a woman contacted by the son her […]
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Abstract Wanting to be a parent is natural, but while there is a constitutionally protected right to parent one’s child, there is no right to have or obtain a child. Opposition to surrogacy is for the same reason it is illegal in most of the world: exploitation of women and commodification of children. Likewise, there […]
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Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.
— Michelle Rosenthall

Instead of donating to Planned Parenthood, Wendy’s has launched a campaign to donate up to $500,000 toward adoption programs for foster children. Wendy's founder, Dave Thomas, was adopted when he was 6 weeks old.

Despite the illusion of adoption as an altruistic child-saving social service . . .  adoption is deeply imbued in classism, nearly always redistributing children from economically at-risk “unmarried” or “too young” mothers and fathers, or those in temporary crisis, to adopters of higher socio-economic status who can afford the tens of thousands of dollars that babies cost.

Most people know of adoption through the self-selecting lens of someone they know who has adopted, or someone “desperate” to parent through adoption as a last resort. They may also have a family member or friend who was adopted as a child but seldom, if ever, talks about it with them on any deep level.

Adoption loss is the only trauma in the world where the victims are expected by the whole of society to be grateful.
— The Reverend Keith C. Griffith, MBE