Today on my Facebook news feed I saw an adoption agency FB page posted by an adoption reformer friend (Not naming site names there are too numerous to count). They had postings for babies available for adoption listing PRICING in dollars along with their "ads" and the usual promotion of how wonderful adoption is. Wonderful maybe to those who have not been involved with it firsthand.
The Adoption Industry does not want anyone knowing how much money they are making, that they are selling adoptees back their own information in post adoption services, and how much fraud and corruption is involved in adoption. A system of adoption that was initially supposed to provide children with homes and has turned into blatant human trafficking. Human Trafficking strong wording you think? YEP and very necessary to truly describe adoption these days.
Not only were our comments about our experiences and knowledge of adoption deleted but we were banned from posting further. None of my comments contained cuss words (only in my head lol) or were attacking anyone on the page. Numerous other adoption reformers were silenced in the same way.
The Adoption industry is silencing us all the way to the bank. They don't want the truth about adoption to be known, only the propaganda they spew that keeps them in business. They are "banking" on the fact they can keep the public in the dark to the realities of adoption so they can continue to profit.
If this were the first time, or if it were a few times, I've witnessed this activity I could chalk it up to a handful of unscrupulous adoption agencies. Unfortunately advertising in adoption is way out of control and babies are now being marketed with dollar signs next to their profiles. It's running rampant in adoption because the availability of newborns being placed for adoption is at an all time low and the amount of parents wanting to adopt continues to rise. It's supply and demand and adoption agencies are having to go to extreme measures to coerce pregnant woman in delicate and difficult and often TEMPORARY situations to get their hands on their children. The Billboards, crisis pregnancy bumper stickers, and now online and
social media advertising are drawing in more and more innocent victims
into the web of adoption industry lies.
Are there children in need of good homes, absolutely. Is adoption the cure all solution these agencies want you to think it is, NO. They want you to believe that adoption is the fairy tale ending to a bad situation for a child and its parents. It is far from that. I read it in my Adolescent child psych book in college "Orphaned, neglected, and adopted children often have the same issues of abandonment and rejection". The system of adoption does adoptees no favor too in adding to these issues by putting a price tag on our head, placing us into the lottery system of adoption, selling us back our own family information later in life in post adoption services, and sealing our original birth certificates from us.
Many adoptees are further rejected by their adoptive families. Babies and children are cute but they grow up and into their own genetics, often very very different from that of adoptive families physically, mentally, and emotionally. Adoptees are not chess pieces to be played by others and then expected to be grateful for it. We are human beings with voices that won't be silenced about what has happened to us because of adoption.
By trying to silence us the Adoption Industry is only really revealing the depths of their fear that their control over the profits from adoption will disappear. I wonder how many of these non-profits and pro-life/pro-adoption agencies will continue on "for the sake of the children" once their large incomes and salaries are diminished and cut back. Rhetorical there.
We won't back down. We won't stop speaking out. We won't be silent.
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Feirstein
The Adoption Industry does not want anyone knowing how much money they are making, that they are selling adoptees back their own information in post adoption services, and how much fraud and corruption is involved in adoption. A system of adoption that was initially supposed to provide children with homes and has turned into blatant human trafficking. Human Trafficking strong wording you think? YEP and very necessary to truly describe adoption these days.
Not only were our comments about our experiences and knowledge of adoption deleted but we were banned from posting further. None of my comments contained cuss words (only in my head lol) or were attacking anyone on the page. Numerous other adoption reformers were silenced in the same way.
The Adoption industry is silencing us all the way to the bank. They don't want the truth about adoption to be known, only the propaganda they spew that keeps them in business. They are "banking" on the fact they can keep the public in the dark to the realities of adoption so they can continue to profit.
Are there children in need of good homes, absolutely. Is adoption the cure all solution these agencies want you to think it is, NO. They want you to believe that adoption is the fairy tale ending to a bad situation for a child and its parents. It is far from that. I read it in my Adolescent child psych book in college "Orphaned, neglected, and adopted children often have the same issues of abandonment and rejection". The system of adoption does adoptees no favor too in adding to these issues by putting a price tag on our head, placing us into the lottery system of adoption, selling us back our own family information later in life in post adoption services, and sealing our original birth certificates from us.
Many adoptees are further rejected by their adoptive families. Babies and children are cute but they grow up and into their own genetics, often very very different from that of adoptive families physically, mentally, and emotionally. Adoptees are not chess pieces to be played by others and then expected to be grateful for it. We are human beings with voices that won't be silenced about what has happened to us because of adoption.
By trying to silence us the Adoption Industry is only really revealing the depths of their fear that their control over the profits from adoption will disappear. I wonder how many of these non-profits and pro-life/pro-adoption agencies will continue on "for the sake of the children" once their large incomes and salaries are diminished and cut back. Rhetorical there.
We won't back down. We won't stop speaking out. We won't be silent.
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. ~Harvey Feirstein
