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Adoption has always and largely depended upon people of means preying on vulnerable people of less means.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/46979745/vp/51693656
Human trafficking.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)galileoreloaded
(2,571 posts)insane.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)especially when child-selling is done under the guise of 'charity' and 'religion'.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)Women, to this day, are coerced out of their children when they are poor and/or have little or no resources to help them.
but they point that you attempt to make is that of evangelicals and other baby grabbers.
REP
(21,691 posts)It's almost always (because I'm sure someone will have an anecdote about their friend who let their maid adopt her baby) poor/working class young women who are strongly persuaded or even frankly coerced into surrendering their newborns to older, wealthier couples. Some of the young women try desperately to get their children back - and are often regarded less than kindly by almost everyone, because after all, the older wealthier couple were so looking forward to having that child and had paid so much money.
Not every adoption is based in coercion; especially pre-Roe v Wade, a few women relinquished as the second-best option with no regrets. But even back then, only about 2% of women relinquished infants for adoption, a rate that remains almost unchanged today. Handing over a helpless newborn to strangers - even well-screened, well-meaning and well-heeled ones - is a hell of a thing to do, especially after the trauma and firestorm of hormones of childbirth. This low rate of surrender is not meeting the demand for healthy newborns, and so the trade is being sent global, and those problem follow with the result being some countries no longer allow foreign adoptions.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)maybe not quite what you're looking for...I get your general point, though...
gollygee
(22,336 posts)But you knew that.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)of other people's unfortunate circumstances and pretending you've helped them.
me b zola
(19,053 posts)Its the adoption agencies that prey on everyone involved. True, though, that some people so desperately want a child "of their own" that they turn a blind eye to the nature of human trafficking.
StevieM
(10,500 posts)A church may have beaten them down, and then offered them a way to redeem themselves. Family members demand that they not "ruin their lives" and make it clear that they are cut off if they don't do "the right thing." Sometimes they are even pressured to relinquish to another family member who is infertile (and therefore entitled).