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We Need to Tear Down the Adoption Industry
Adoption as practiced in the US is rooted in racism, imperialism, colonialism, and outright abduction. It’s time to do ...
I never understood adoption jokes growing up. As an adoptee, I could not grasp what was wrong with being adopted. To me, being adopted meant that I had a loving family who wanted me and loved me just ...
Current messaging places adoption as a “choice of the choiceless,” as one abortion advocate, whom Hanlon and Kirk quote, has put it. That sums up the seeming triumph of abortion over adoption, death ...
When LGBTQ+ people tell me they want to adopt, I always start with the same response: “Tell me what you mean by that.” Not to challenge them, but to make it clear that adoption isn’t one path. There ...
When I was born, my Korean parents, immigrants to the United States, relinquished me for adoption. At the age of two and a half months, I was placed with a white family who lived in a small town in ...
“Adoption, not abortion!” has been among the staples of pro-life mantras. It was emblazoned on the very first pro-life bumper sticker I got for my parents’ car right after Roe v. Wade was decided. The ...
November is National Adoption Month, a time to honor the complexity of adoption and the voices of those who live it every day: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families. Throughout this month, ...
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When adoption is a social compulsion
A child of five, separated from a small-town family of Madhya Pradesh, gets adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, he takes the help of his foggy childhood impressions and Google ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Becca Bratcher is an author and journalist specializing in crypto. Crypto adoption refers to the widespread use of digital assets ...
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