EXCELLENT!! Very thoughtful and explained. Thank you for this important contribution to adoption literature, not the least of which is the brilliant title.
If want, desire even desperation for a child was reason enough then snatching a baby from a supermarket shopping cart or any and all forms of kidnapping would be acceptable and perfectly legal. The belief of the public is that adoption serves children in need. But the reality is quite the reverse of that fairy tale illusion. Thousands of children who were removed from their families based on allegations of neglect of abuse remain in state care while 36 couples and individual vie for each newborn placed for adoption, and afre willing gto pay tens of thousands of dollars for one, creating a demand-based marketplace in a mega-billion-dollar industry.
If adoption was truly about serving the needs of children and not the selfish want of a child, the child's identity and heritage would not be stripped from them. Doing so does not serve the best interest of the child as they grow into an adult unanchored and at risk for incest and hereditary disease, it serves a desire for ownership.
Mirah Riben, author, THE STORK MARKET: America's Multi-Billion-Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry
EXCELLENT!! Very thoughtful and explained. Thank you for this important contribution to adoption literature, not the least of which is the brilliant title.
If want, desire even desperation for a child was reason enough then snatching a baby from a supermarket shopping cart or any and all forms of kidnapping would be acceptable and perfectly legal. The belief of the public is that adoption serves children in need. But the reality is quite the reverse of that fairy tale illusion. Thousands of children who were removed from their families based on allegations of neglect of abuse remain in state care while 36 couples and individual vie for each newborn placed for adoption, and afre willing gto pay tens of thousands of dollars for one, creating a demand-based marketplace in a mega-billion-dollar industry.
If adoption was truly about serving the needs of children and not the selfish want of a child, the child's identity and heritage would not be stripped from them. Doing so does not serve the best interest of the child as they grow into an adult unanchored and at risk for incest and hereditary disease, it serves a desire for ownership.
Mirah Riben, author, THE STORK MARKET: America's Multi-Billion-Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry