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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]America right now actually has an abundance of babies and children that need to be adopted because of the heroin crisis and growing poverty.

And YES- some of these babies are COMPLETELY healthy.

Domestic &gt; international.
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It sounds like we need to work on effective mental health treatment, treatment for addictions, unemployment, and poverty.

We don’t need to rip children from their mothers who are poor.

The problem with domestic infant adoption is that the market demands a supply of babies.  And so a poor mother recovering from addiction is told that the greatest love she can give her child is to give him away to someone wealthy.  Thus making some rich couple happy but forever severing her child’s connection to his biological family and compounding her own trauma.  The pain and damage are exponentially worse.  After the trauma of relinquishment, she is even more likely to relapse and sink deeper into addiction…but also more likely to gmfight for any subsequent children, yet be even less likely to successfully parent them.  It’s a downward spiral caused by a hungry market of rich adopters.

Vulnerable mothers need support, money, and care.  Not coercion and manipulation.  [/quote]

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