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 Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:19 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 6:32 pm
I'd like to add to this.
Kids in foster care were used as lab rats, according to this article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/05/national/w003240D23.DTL
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 6:04 pm
And I'd like to add that the Adoption System is already overloaded worldwide. I'd rather just abort than shoving another and another baby into the adoption system.
If you think adoption is a good alternative, go to the slums of China. Thailand. India. Ethiopia. Third-world countries. Developing countries. The children there are sentenced to a life of poverty, hunger, sexual abuse, and abuse overall. The 'Orphanages' there are little more than whorehouses for child molesters. Trust me or not, I've been there. I've seen it.
I think that rescuing a child from that dark life and giving him or her a future that doesn't involve prostitution just to get by each day is saving a life, not banning abortion.
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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:40 pm
My bit on adoption, which discusses race: Adoption doesn't end a pregnancy; it only makes it so that the woman who plopped it out doesn't care for it at all. And adoption is a fuctioning solution for white women birthing white babies with no problems for white couples with the money to adopt. Go open a website on parents willing to adopt, or flip open an ad about adoption. Go ahead. I'll wait. Here, let's make it easy, and give you a link or four: http://adoptionnetwork.com/ http://www.adopthelp.com/ http://www.courageouschoice.com/ http://www.americanadoptions.com/ All I did was plug adoption into Google. What do you see? That's right. White couples, white babies, white families. I saw one family that might have been Asian, and a few brown faces on http://www.adoptuskids.org, which is national. On every private site I saw more white than a blizzard in Denver. So what are people like me supposed to do? I am not going to birth a white baby. I am not going to birth a pretty white cherub with soft hair and light eyes. Anything that fights out from between my legs is going to be brown and nappy headed. Adoption is warped from what it was supposed to do--get parentless children good homes. Nowadays it's a business designed to place white babies with white families--and as for the little brown ones and old ones and sibling grouped ones and sick ones, we'll think getting homes for those later if the white couple can't get the white babies first. ******** adoption as a solution until it's not just a solution for the pretty white girls, like everything else in America. Also: Quote: [The writer of the article] recently requested an adoption application from this agency called "American Adoptions." (For research purposes only I assure you.) They give you a bunch of information along with the application form. Here's how they break things down in terms of race: They divide their programs into "Traditional" and "Minority." "Traditional" includes all "healthy, non-African American" babies. They state that "Traditional" program races "include, but are not limited to, Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, etc. or any non-African American combination of races." What it boils down to is that "African-American or Bi/multi-racial (any race combined with African-American heritage) newborns/infants" in the "Minority" program cost way less than babies in the "Traditional" program, anywhere from $4,000 to $16,000 less, with no up-front fee required. The average wait for a "Traditional" program baby is months longer than the wait for a "Minority" program baby, which can be as short as 1 month, and the rules regarding age of parents and number of children who can already be living in the home are less strict for "Minority" program applicants. While reduced fees and fewer restrictions on parent eligibility (combined with other anti-racist, anti-classist strategies) can make adoption more accessible to people of color, "Minority" programs like this one are not focused on recruiting and approving people of color to adopt. Agencies are able to subsidize "Minority" programs in part because they do not spend lots of money advertising to pregnant women to give up their "minority" babies for adoption; instead, they focus their attention on recruiting pregnant women who can help fill the demand for white babies. Also, many agencies use a "one drop" kind of rule to draw a strict line between African American and white, while quietly ignoring all other "minorities." The argument that "Minority" programs exist to make adoption more accessible to people of color is often an attempt to mask white-run agencies' complicity with white-dominated society's general devaluation of African American children. Most agencies don't care about recruiting parents of color or making their programs more accessible to people of color in general. The pictures of angelic, blonde-haired babies advertised by agencies like American Adoptions make it clear that they're primarily concerned with matching up white people with white babies, and when that isn't possible, convincing whites to settle for a "less desirable" child. http://www.transracialabductees.org/politics/budget.html
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:27 am
Here are some more recent stats on the foster care system http://www.casey.org/MediaCenter/MediaKit/FactSheet.htmI was looking it up to see if we treat our pets better, but damn, cats and dogs in the US have it even worse...which just makes me pity fluffy more than a clump of cells.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:46 am
I totally agree with the article. Thanks for posting it!
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:47 am
My mom thinks we should get rid of foster care and have orphanages again. I guess that makes sense. It would be better to have the kid in one place than to toss him around in random homes. Many kids in foster care develop attatchment issues. Plus, many foster parents only do it for the money and do not care at all for the kids well being, so many end up getting abused.
I personally would like it if abortion was avoided and more people chose adoption, both to give up the kids or to have a kid, but sadly that is not the case. There are already too many kids in the adoption system. It would be cruel to the existing kids to put a newborn in there (they're more likely to get adopted), and it could be cruel to the kid if they're put up for adoption later in life and don't get adopted.
I hate to say it, but it's also often worse for non-white kids. White kids are more likely to get adopted. A lot of adopting families are white, and want white kids only, probably because they look like them more. On a TV station where I live, they often show commercials where the news anchor talks about a kid currently up for adoption and shows a picture. Almost every one of those kids is black. I read the newspaper about the local foster homes, and a graph showed there were way more African American kids in there than Caucasian.
If I get pregnant, I probably wouldn't abort (I am pro-choice, but I wouldn't do it myself unless I was in a certain situation), but I don't want to give it up for adoption. I do it because I do not care for those couples who wait years for a white, v****a-fresh newborn (well, assuming I have a white baby. Not a guarantee, since I'm more attracted to darker hair and skin) when there are already older kids up for adoption. I honestly do not. Why do these people insist on having newborns? I do not want kids. The only way I would intentionally have a kid (if I get pregnant I will probably keep it) is through adoption. I would probably have a slightly older kid. Race isn't really an issue in it for me.
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