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Draft:Adoption
(under construction)
Adoption is where a family brings unrelated members into the fold.
Build a Family[edit]
(basics)
Human Trafficking[edit]
Adoption Agencies[edit]
Closed Adoption[edit]
Sealing records to prevent the adoptee and the biological parents from finding each other.
Open Adoption[edit]
The biological and adoptive families have access to each other's personal information and have the option of contacting.
Adopting from oversea[edit]
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[edit]
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. [1][2] In some cases, parents intentionally have more children for the explicit purpose of selling them to the traffickers.[3]
Political Grandstanding[edit]
Russia[edit]
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.[4] Furthermore, Russia has banned LGBT couple from adopting children. [5]
The Abortion Connection[edit]
(the argument that adoption is a viable alternative to abortion)
Adoption in Abrahamic Religions[edit]
(rights, history)
Adoption by Religious Orgs[edit]
(shakers)
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ In connecting Chinese adoptees to birth families, couple makes discovery about China's one-child policy, NBC News
- ↑ Kidnapped and Sold: Inside the Dark World of Child Trafficking in China, The Atlantic
- ↑ Child trafficking in China often starts with parents selling their own kids, QZ
- ↑ from Reuters
- ↑ Them