Draft:Adoption

(under construction)

Adoption is where a family brings unrelated members into the fold.

Build a Family
(basics)

Closed Adoption
Sealing records to prevent the adoptee and the biological parents from finding each other.

Open Adoption
The biological and adoptive families have access to each other's personal information and have the option of contacting.

Adopting from oversea
Do you want to adopt a child, but want to reduce the possibility of the adoption being contested? Welcome to international adoption! By being on a different continent, you effectively eliminate any realistic possibility of the biological parents coming back years later demanding their kid!

China
As a result of China's One-Child policy, millions of girls were aborted or forced into horrific orphanages.

That was partially a lie.

Some of those girls were kidnapped from their homes and sold for as little as $200 to the orphanages, who could then resell the babies internationally for $20,000. In some cases, parents intentionally have more children for the explicit purpose of selling them to the traffickers.

Russia
Putin made international headlines when he banned international adoption of Russian infants, though this was more in retaliation for anti-corruption legislation by the US. Furthermore, Russia has banned LGBT couple from adopting children.

The Abortion Connection
(the argument that adoption is a viable alternative to abortion)

Adoption in Abrahamic Religions
(rights, history)

Adoption by Religious Orgs
(shakers)