What's the difference between a gadget (such as a phone with Blutooth, a camera and high-speed data capabilities) and a baby for adoption?
The gadget of the desired specifications can almost always be purchased immediately - and easily returned if the customer is not fully satisfied.
A human baby might take anywhere from a month to a year to obtain - perhaps longer, depending on the specifications of the baby and the budget of the customer. Regardless, the time seems like an eternity to a consumer who is used to immediate gratification. Those whose business is adoption are always looking for ways to shorten the "wait" time period and keep their customers happy.
As the market for babies for adoption grows, new sources of babies must be developed and "mined". If some customers can be persuaded that they are "just prejudiced" if they won't accept an African American or Mexican baby - and "angels" if they will - then it is possible to sell a few more babies for adoption.
To keep competitive and shorten the average waiting period for their customers, adoption businesses are also offering "open adoption" to lure more parents into surrendering their healthy babies for adoption. Using "Dear Birthmother" letters and adoption business cards helps to lure parents into adoption. Sometimes prospective adopters even make what they consider to be a "down-payment" on a baby. In infant adoption, anything goes.
Healthy white infants with good DNA are the most sought-after for adoption. Lucky for customers there is already a culture in America that is prejudiced against single parents. The abject hatred for single parents was so strong in the 1960s that almost no single mother or father ever got to raise their own child. Fast-forward to the year 2005 - it is just a matter of bringing back all the hatred towards single parents - "shaming" them. Then adoption "professionals" can just lie about the known effects of separation on mothers and babies - and voila! - there will be more babies to sell to the prospective adopters.
If the baby's own grandparents to do the shaming, then the adoption "counselors" can play "good guy", befriending the pregnant mother they have targeted as the source of a baby for adoption. While other mothers-to-be are respected as their baby's "mother", the adoption "counselors" refer to their targets as "birthmothers" or "birthparents" (aka "birth ojects").
There is a big difference between buying a gadget and a baby for adoption. But in United States, both baby and gadget are treated in the same way - just another product to be obtained and marketed to customers.
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