Remember how we talked about international adoptions? And you didn’t believe me when I said that it is highly suspicious when people don’t adopt children who share their culture and their language and, instead, choose to spend enormous amounts of money to remove kids from their cultural and linguistic environments? More often than not, such adopters prefer to adopt internationally because nobody keeps track of what they do to the adopted children:
WASHINGTON, July 1 (RIA Novosti) – The first of four suspects in a child sex abuse ring that spanned three continents has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in the United States for sexually abusing a young boy who was reportedly purchased from his birth mother in Russia.
Children are people, not goods or possessions. A wealthy person’s need to own one should never matter more than a child’s right not to be bought like a puppy.
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And they wonder why Putin banned adoption to US… these two used a Russian surrogate mother to pull this off. To make things even worse, these two and that kid were poster family of “two fathers are better than one”. Guess what spin to the story anti-gay marriage people gave.
A link to the old article about them in ABC news (article itself was pulled down):
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1cEiDz1vtDYJ:abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/07/14/2953694.htm+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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A few abusers may try to adopt from overseas.
The bulk of international adoption by US couples is done by couples who have no conscious nefarious intent toward the child. Motivations include 1. a white couple’s desire to adopt an infant child “who looks like them” ie, not black, rather than the more readily available American pool of wards of the state, most of whom are either older, physically or mentally handicapped, available for foster parentage but not for permanent adoption, or are black. 2. an evangelical Christian couple’s desire to adopt a child from a non-evangelical Christian background, in order to “save a soul”. The majority of couples have a lot of willful ignorance, willingness to believe that the child is really an orphan without extended family wanting to raise the child, cultural imperialism, religious arrogance, etc. Why the couples believe that only some portions of the adoption process may be corrupt, but the claim that the child is a genuine orphan must be true, I don’t quite understand. I also don’t doubt that the great majority of adoptive parents sincerely love and wish the best for the child.
Surrogacy has become an international market subject to a high degree of exploitation. Many jurisdictions forbid ironclad surrogacy contracts, including surrogacy where the surrogate mother is not at all related to the fetus she carries (in vitro fertilized egg from a different woman). India seems to be the current hotspot of “in-vitro reproductive tourism” involving surrogacy.
I have to say that international adoption and surrogacy are not and likely never will be free of ethical problems or corruption, even though occasional agencies or individuals may behave in an ethical manner.
http://www.thenation.com/article/160096/evangelical-adoption-crusade#axzz2YUisQ9W3
http://msmagazine.com/blog/2010/06/25/the-cheapest-womb-indias-surrogate-mothers/
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” Why the couples believe that only some portions of the adoption process may be corrupt, but the claim that the child is a genuine orphan must be true, I don’t quite understand. I also don’t doubt that the great majority of adoptive parents sincerely love and wish the best for the child.”
– These two things contradict each other. If they sincerely love and wish the best, they wouldn’t close their eyes to reality because it’s more convenient. And they would definitely not rob a child of his or her own real NAME (as most such people do) simply because it’s more convenient.
“Motivations include 1. a white couple’s desire to adopt an infant child “who looks like them” ie, not black, rather than the more readily available American pool of wards of the state, most of whom are either older, physically or mentally handicapped, available for foster parentage but not for permanent adoption, or are black. 2. an evangelical Christian couple’s desire to adopt a child from a non-evangelical Christian background, in order to “save a soul”.”
– How can something this horrible translate to love?
“Many jurisdictions forbid ironclad surrogacy contracts, including surrogacy where the surrogate mother is not at all related to the fetus she carries”
– Good!
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Well, in this case the child was from a surrogate mother (one of the abusers is the father). Americans often adopt Russian children because they can treat them like dirt and get away with it (putting them on a plane alone and sending them to Russia like a broken toy, leaving them in cars to die and not be punished).
After all, who can the kid count on ? When it often doesn’t know the language, the culture etc. ?
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