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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an adoptive parent I think your comment about selling babies to the highest bidder is insulting. All situations are not the same. 
Having said that I agree with your overall post. Those homes were a disgrace and I had no idea they were still happening. The way right wing evangelicals treat other humans in the name of Christianity is horrific. [/quote]

My siblings are adopted, so I understand your perspective to a degree.

I know that my siblings were adopted from a country where unethical adoption practices have recently come to light, and it’s terrible to think that they could have been victims of those practices. We hope the adoption agency handled their cases ethically, but we’ll never know.

I also think that as we learn about these unethical practices, adoptive parents have a responsibility to proceed carefully to ensure that the process treats the birth mother ethically. It’s not easy to do. [/quote]

It’s been interesting how much DNA has opened up a picture into the dark recesses of human trafficking in international adoption, too.  One of my former students was adopted from Guatemala in the late 80’s I think.  Super loving adoptive parents, older, had faced infertility a long time, and thought that adopting an abandoned baby from Guatemala was more ethical than a domestic infant adoption, since that baby presumably “needed” a home.  It’s only now in her 30’s that the daughter found a full sibling through commercial DNA, and she later found out that she had been stolen from the hospital and her mom was told she had died.  The mother never believed it because she never was able to take the body home and there were rumors that other babies had been taken, so the whole family grieved all their lives until the sibling had DNA done decades later and found her.  The reunion has been probably equal parts grief and equal parts joy…but she doesn’t even speak Spanish so can’t yet fully connect with her first parents who have loved and missed her so much.  And she can’t be angry with her adoptive parents since it’s not like they personally kidnapped her, they just believed what they were told by the adoption agency.  And for them there is the terrible mix of guilt but no regrets since their daughter is their greatest joy…but to obtain joy at someone’s unrelenting pain and suffering is an impossible cost.  It’s so sad all around.  [/quote]

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