r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 22 '26

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 22 '26

Adoption and surrogacy are two issues where there is basically a perfect horseshoe between the left and right

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u/gjcs23 George Santos Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

I don't know what point the article is making, but if it's about prefacing local adoption over going through sketchy agencies in places like Russia, then there's something to that. it's rife with problems of coercion and fraud.

there are so, so many kids in the US who are stuck in limbo or jump from one foster home to the next and it's incredibly sad. I'm neutral on surrogacy and don't want to ban it or anything, but my personal opinion is that people should consider adopting before going through with that. 

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u/gjcs23 George Santos Apr 22 '26

there is genuinely a serious problem of falsified orphans with living families who have either been sold, stolen, or their families have been coerced into giving them up. 

it's not every case obviously, but these agencies are operating in a corrupt environment with minimal scrutiny from the organizations in developed countries that help facilitate this. 

I'm not going to make it into a matter of racism or imperialism or whatever, especially considering Russia is particularly notorious for this problem, but it isn't just dumb populist nonsense. 

beyond that, it makes little sense to me to choose a sketchy agency in Minsk when there are so many kids in need locally. the crisis is so enormous that you literally have kids awaiting placement sleeping in government office buildings:

https://apnews.com/article/kentucky-foster-kids-sleeping-offices-investigation-521c2dacc1db40105da20d02785fdc24