if you donโt like the idea that #adoptees are treated as other peopleโs propertyโdespite there being a $34 billion market in childrenโthen maybe we can agree that adopteesโ legal identities are other peopleโs property. โI want a child to call my own.โ OK, hereโs a piece of paper that proves it
The National Council for Adoption has millions of dollars, reflecting the lopsided โdemand sideโ of the industry: affluent hopeful adopters.
Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +
Adoptees have been telling you. Forced confinement is not a "forever home." Telling the truth does not make one mentally ill. It exposes systemic sickness that needs to be treated. ๐ฅ
My brother is living proof that I come from somewhere, and we are not alone in this world. #adoption ๐ฅ www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/...
๐ฅ Framed as happy, this story has details that speak to the inherent cruelty of plenary adoption. No one told her she was adopted until age 7. When her adoptive parents died their bio kids rejected her.
Her bio dad has to adopt her to get his name on her birth certificate
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Sweetest baby, Nayoung ๐ธ. You will grow up to be so proud of the woman you'll become one day. She will seek truth and justice. She will be the protector you always needed. I promise, she will return for you. And she loves you very, very much ๐
Looking forward to watching movies and wearing my favorite shoes in peace ๐ฐ๐ท
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"Human trafficking through adoption will be investigated in detail if data from the recipient country is verified."
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Human babies should not be separated from their mothers at birth. Do first mothers even know this is happening to them when their baby is immediately taken? ๐ฅ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Tony Corsentino
Tony Corsentino
๐จURGENT THING: If you live in VA, please send an email TODAY to senators who voted yes today. We hopefully just need one more push to get this done. It will be heard again tomorrow
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HB 301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certs.