tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12310464.post7580005343185457006..comments2024-02-26T13:34:55.746-06:00Comments on Comrade Kevin's Chrestomathy: An Adoption StoryComrade Kevinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11393718048145784837noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12310464.post-46780759814271683522010-09-28T15:04:18.264-05:002010-09-28T15:04:18.264-05:00Thank you, Mirah. That was very interesting and w...Thank you, Mirah. That was very interesting and what I was hoping to hear.Comrade Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11393718048145784837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12310464.post-28640464550271475982010-09-28T15:03:15.330-05:002010-09-28T15:03:15.330-05:00Further, adoption should not be encouraged because...Further, adoption should not be encouraged because it results in people feeling as you do only worse. You do not know about your grandfather - imagine not knowing who your own mother or father is, who you look like. Imagine having absolutely no medical history.<br /><br />Adoption should be a very last resort after mothers and families in crisis are given the assistance they need, and after extended family is sought as a resource for the child. Unfortunately it has become big business instead.<br /><br />Mirah Riben, author, The Stork Market; America's Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption IndustryMirah Ribenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626873757236976251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12310464.post-58161645332571139332010-09-28T15:00:16.115-05:002010-09-28T15:00:16.115-05:00The most common reasons for relinquishment of a ch...The most common reasons for relinquishment of a child to adoption are finances, age and marital status. The lack of any of these renders people judged as unfit parents and makes them easily victimized by the billion dollar adoption industry. <br /><br />Demand creates supply and relies whenever necessary on coercion, exploitation, pressure, deceit and when all else fails kidnaping and stealing babies..<br /><br />It is not a choice that needs protection like abortion. One is about a woman's right to her reproductive freedom, and is only legal during the first stages when the fetus is not viable without the mother. The other - adoption - is about a living human being with rights separate from his mother.<br /><br />While most states in the US require parental consent for abortion when the mother is a minor....the law allows these children to permanently and irrevocably give their child to adoption, a decsion that they mat regret forever and ever...Mirah Ribenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13626873757236976251noreply@blogger.com