Adoption is complex both psychologically and sociologically. Adoption is practiced in some cultures and not in others - what motivates some cultures to transfer babies from one family to another?
How do those in power utilize "Positive Adoption Language" to create a "culture of adoption" in order to influence families to surrender their own children and grandchildren? How did so many people become infertile and how are those in the business of adoption and reproductive technologies exploiting their infertility? Are mothers being used as if they were only a source of babies for adoption, a kind of human breeding-machine? How do family members fare, after being separated for adoption? How do families with open adoptions fare? This adoption blog will address these questions and more.
Adoption is imbued with a mystical quality. Participants (willing or otherwise) are often referred to as "angels" "saints" or other terms which dehumanize them. The people who adopt are "saviors" of supposedly "unwanted" babies.
The women used as a source of babies for adoption are called "angels" and "saints" prior to surrendering their beloved babies, but they quickly fall from this unnaturally elevated status once the adoption is finalized.
During the closed adoption era, the moms might not have even gotten to hold their babies before they were whisked away - the punitive nature of adoption was unmistakable. Today, adoption is still meant to punish - adoption is a terroristic threat held over daughters in white Christian homes. Even when the threat is only an idle threat, a frightened mother may take it so seriously she commits suicide before the pregnancy is obvious.
Few mothers will be told how adoption - even open adoption might affect both themselves and their child for life.
Adoption is imbued with a mystical quality. Participants (willing or otherwise) are often referred to as "angels" "saints" or other terms which dehumanize them. The people who adopt are "saviors" of supposedly "unwanted" babies.
