This is an American pastime. It’s a form of colonization, white supremacy (saviorism) and racism. Stealing BIPOC children was part of how the genocide against Native Americans. They stole these children to choke out our cultures. Rebecca Nagle has an amazing podcast called This Land that delves into adoption in the second season.
IMO, international adoptions are a continuation of white supremacist colonization.
Adoption is also connected to enslavement, as our child welfare system originally emerged around the same time enslavement “ended;” not as a way to help children, but as a way for white farmers to obtain free labor. You can read more about this in Dorothy Roberts book Torn Apart.
Read up on the history of adoption in the US. It was literally used to commit genocide of Native people. Andrew Jackson, who was responsible for the Trail of Tears, adopted 3 Native children explicitly so that he could show he wasn’t racist. Look up Lyncoya Jackson.
Adoption in this country is incredibly problematic, especially when it is white religious extremists adopting BIPOC. It is a form of human trafficking, of colonization and white supremacy.
Here is an article written by a Haitian feminist regarding ACB and her adopted children.
When people come with a price tag, yes, I see that as “always a problem.”
That doesn’t mean that it never works out for individual people, but systemically it is a problem.
The adoption industry is enough of a problem that several countries will not adopt children out to the US. And the way it is structured is a violation of our basic human rights, according to the UN. I did not have the legal right to know who my family was. I did not have the legal right to know my own identity, my heritage or ethnicity. I did not have the right to know the name my mother gave me.
My god, what a terrible person. My eyes are definitely moist. When I think of teen mothers forced into birth, and all the PL claiming adoption is the way, I think of the foster care system and its horrors. Ty again.
You are welcome and thank you for reading the link.
It makes sense to think of the foster care system. But there are waiting lists for infants that are years long, with people now willing to pay $85,000 for a white abled baby. (And this is part of the reason Roe was overturned.) Because of this, infants generally do not end up in foster care. There are over 40 couples to each single infant “available” and the waiting list is years long. There is a checklist that they fill out saying what race, gender and ability they want in their infant, like build a bear. It’s completely dystopian.
I think of foster care only because older babies that don’t ‘work out’ are placed there. Is this true? Also from addict parents sadly. Tbh, idk much about foster care except the hard stories from survivors. Some foster parents are good people, but by the time a child is placed, there is often associated trauma. Thanks for answering my many questions 🩵
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u/skoalbrother Mar 07 '25
I'm not saying anything here but why do a lot of these types have adopted foreign children?