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Anonymous wrote:Interesting. I may check this out.
The fact is that most people give up their babies simply for financial reasons and if they had more financial support, they would keep them. I had a coworker several years ago was very religious and very anti-abortion. Which we weren’t close so I absolutely should not have known that in the workplace and I was younger, so I just didn’t realize how inappropriate it was that he shared so much.
Anyway, he and his wife were planning on adopting and it was just because they wanted to be these white saviors. So tracks that there’s a whole industry, coercing young women to give up their babies to fuel this.
Yup. I read adoption cost range from 20k to 60k. What if we gave a struggling new mom 60k to help raise the baby. Would she still place the baby for adoption?
You can't raise a child well on $60k, through college.
No, but 60k can put you in a place where you can get stable. Maybe better housing, food, a job, etc. Many of the woman placing kids in adoption go on to be stable and have kids of their own. Just needed more support to get there.
OP here. Precisely. And look at the fact that our government (under great donor support form adoption industry lobbyists) actually provides HUGE tax credits to adopters …far, far more generous tax credits to adopters than those provided to parents.
Policy wise, that makes sense when it comes to providing government incentives to adopt children in foster care. But those tax credits go to rich adopters who are paying for domestic infant adoptions, too!!! There is literally no societal benefit to incentivizing domestic infant adoption - there are 50-100 waiting would-be adopters for every available infant…so a blanket tax credit really only creates an incentive for those who profit from adoption. To create more supply of available infants. And how do they do that? By making it even harder for poor mothers to parent: cutting SNAP benefits. Cutting welfare, blocking funding for childcare, opposing maternity leave, blocking universal Pre-k, shortening the time period when a mother can revoke adoption consent, allowing mothers to sign adoption consent before the baby is even born, etc etc etc.
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