How Come America Hasn’t Adapted The Same Adoption Laws As Uk And Austrilia?
Why is America the one place that caters to Potential Adoptive Parents rather than the child’s Best Interest?
Why do people believe that poor familes should place their children up for adoption?
Why do people blieve that single women or teenagers should place their babies up for adoption?
What’s so terrible about keeping the natural family together?
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February 6th, 2010 at 6:58 AM
It’s the money. In those countries mentioned adoption is a social service for children.
In America it’s big business trading in kids. The best interests of the child are whatever the adoption facilitators and paying customer deems them to be
It’s about time the US took a leaf out of other countries’ books and started putting the needs of children first. Unfortunately ‘free enterprise’ encompasses the busness of making money off the backs of babes. Sick.
February 6th, 2010 at 11:33 AM
America isn’t the only place doing it. Us Canucks are pretty ignorant about adoption too.
February 6th, 2010 at 4:56 PM
because sometimes the best interest of the child is to be adopted.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:54 PM
there’s no money in it.
February 6th, 2010 at 10:51 PM
Dear 23,
*sarcasm*
Because America is the greatest country in the WORLD and OUR way of doing things is always the BEST, don’tcha know! Who cares if our way of treating adoption tramples people’s rights, makes it legal to traffick children and makes second class citizens out of adoptees!
It’s the American way these days to be capitalistic pigs about anything and everything – including children! It’s TRENDY!! As long as people are making OBSCENE amounts of money and APs are happy – WHO CARES!!! We’re the BEST at EVERYTHING so we don’t CARE how it is done in other places!
We have had to work hard(ly) to achieve our reputation as a nation of obese, ignorant, close-minded, GREEDY people. Too bad other countries can’t see how great we are and do everything OUR way. (Then we wouldn’t have to “spread democracy” by bombing them.)
Hasn’t anyone told you!? ENTITLEMENT is where its at! All the “it” people are wearing entitlement this season! I love what Nadya Suleman has done with it – she’s a living the “American Dream” and all she had to do was be ENTITLED. All the people who work hard, value their families, show compassion for others and try to make the world a nicer place are missing out, because in America, we reward – no, we REVERE, ignorance, incompetence and greed!
Welcome to America. Home of Bank bailouts, over-priced healthcare, over-paid CEOs, $5 lattes, Gitmo, Big Oil, crooked politicians, AIG, Octo-mom, Bernie Madoff, Walter Noel, Dwight Schar, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Richard Baker, James Mulva, Ralph Roberts, Steve Jobs, Robert Stevens, Larry Ellison, Richard Gilman, Dick Cheney, etc. etc. etc.
Our new motto is, “As long as I get what I want, damn the masses. Let them eat cake.” (We’re thinking about changing that silly thing on the bottom of the Liberty Statue that says something about “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…”) It’s SOOOO last century!
*end sarcasm*
Seriously, I think it’s just because we just haven’t “caught up” yet. We still just in our elementary years if you look at other countries “ages” and although America IS a great country in many respects, we still have work to do. We learn by trial and error. (It is truly a shame that some have to suffer for others to learn though.) Adoption as it is practiced in the US today is less that 100 years old. It wasn’t always like this and sadly this “modern experiment” with treating it as a business hasn’t worked out all that great. People ARE starting to notice. Changes will happen and perhaps we can even improve on the models of other countries as we make changes to our own system. It will take work and not everybody is going to get what they want, but that is how democracy works. As far as I know, we are still a democracy and we can make changes if we work together at it. There ARE people listening – at least there were last time I checked…
It might not even happen in my lifetime, but I have faith that we will eventually get it right. The more people like you who care, speak up and ask questions, the more quickly it will change.