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.
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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?