Interesting adoption-related study

Question

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26076480/

What are your thoughts?

Answer 1

Actually, I don't think that the article says too much different than we talk about here.  No one has ever suggested that the number of women not choosing to relinquish hasn't declined greatly.  I've seen it pointed out several times in various discussion here that it has dropped.  Often the people pointing it out are the ones who are also pointing out that, despite this, coercion still happens.  Some young women still feel quite pressured by family, agencies and society to relinquish when they'd rather not.  Current court cases and the stories of some of the younger women right here on Y!A are evidence of that.  The point is, whether it be on a large scale, like during the BSE, or on a much smaller scale like today, coercion should not be a part of adoption.

Step-parent adoptions have been pretty popular for a while, so those numbers weren't surprising.

Answer 2

I found it very interesting.  Those statistics are different then what many ASSume.

Answer 3

Hi Jennifer,

I thought it was very interesting too.  I have to admit now-a-days i tend to take studies with a grain of salt.  It seems for every study that says the sky is blue there are two more saying its purple, kwim.  It would hold more validity with me, if more studies were to come out in the near future echoing these results.

Thanks for the question.

Answer 4

Very interesting.  It supports what many of us have said for awhile here, that many or our current situations with adoption are much different than what many adult adoptees experienced as children.  Thank you for sharing.  

Answer 5

"Minority women are "trying" to adopt at a higher rate than white women. Minority women are currently seeking to adopt children more often than white women, the survey found."

This doesn't mean they "have" or are "able to" or are even "considered" before white women or couples.

Jo must have forgot to add that point. Hmm makes you wonder.  

This article says a lot but like any stats you can choose to distort them to justify your point of view.  Kind of like the bible.

Its odd this survey tries to compare single women adopting babies from women they don't know to men trying to adopt their new wives children.

One thing baby seekers can't deny is the correlation between less girls placing their babies in the US to the increase in demand for foreign babies. You know supply and demand and the increase in atrocities of foreign families.

This first survey is riddled with contradictions and its obvious there's bias behind it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the person or group that did the survey are  white christian republicans.

Answer 6

HEH.. well, whaddya know.. welcome to the 21st century. So the BSE ISN'T still going on. What a surprise!!

Adoption today has it's own problems, but yeah, I'm SURE we're gonna solve them by trying to "fix" the OLD problems (sarcasm). Hopefully more studies like this will be done so that the bitter adult adoptees who can't get their head out of the BSE, will be forced to see that the times have changed, and if they REALLY want to help the problems in adoption today, they need to address THOSE problems.

I think it's great that so few single women are placing for adoption, (Surprise!!)  and more are parenting, having help and options available for parenting. I just wish these stats didn't reflect the high abortion rate :(

And, what, may I ask, is "wrong" with the study pointing out WHY there's such a high rate of men adopting (adopting stepchildren)??

But hey.. If you want to live in the past and be bitter, then you can easily dismiss studies and insist that all PAPs are just greedy baby-grabbing infertiles.

Answer 7

Very interesting. And also a very different story than what is portrayed here.