What issues would arise if babies were not killed but sent to families in other countries to adopt instead?

Question

Apparently, there is a LONG history of gendercide, so I don't see the killing ever stopping. Please see this link before answering: http://www.gendercide.org/case_infanticide.html

Answer 1

<<"Instead of her suffering the way I do, I thought it was better to get rid of her.">>

This was a very telling quote.

Frankly, I doubt that there are enough parents who want to adopt to adopt the thousands of unwanted baby Chinese or Indian girls. For whatever reason, both these countries hold back an enormous number of infant orphans from adoption and only allow adoptions from a restricted number of orphanages. What's up with that?

Answer 2

I read this article, and how are we in western civilization supposed to stop this practice? I do not support nor condone such a practice. There are tons of babies in countries around the world who need homes as it is. There are children in  the UK and the US who need homes. Sure they might not all be babies, but they still need parents. This will not produce a whole new influx of babies to be adopted, nor will it stop the practice of infantcide. They kill girls in some Muslim countries for disgracing the family.  In many places, females are beginning to out populate males, and one day, females may out number males 10 to 1, if that occurs there is the risk of the human race dying out.

Answer 3

Lots of issues would arise!  This is not the answer.

PHIL SAID:

If one wants to stop infanticide on this scale, one needs to address the underlying poverty, over-population, and cultural norms that lead to it.

I AGREE.

And I say to all of the ABOLITIONISTS (Who  think that almost all adoption is bad and adoptive parents destroy families) :

If one wants to stop adoption on this scale, one needs to address the underlying poverty, over-population, and cultural norms that lead to it.

Answer 4

There are many reasons that this doesn't work.  Right now there are IA programs for these children, yet for whatever reason, in China for example, there is a slowdown in the process of adopting from there, while MANY children wait in orphanages for homes.

And IA is not exactly the most...logical answer to this problem.  The world IS overpopulated, and some cultures place more value on one s*x, and,like in China, where people are forced by the government to only have one or two children, well...the s*x that is looked at as "lesser" is going to be killed, abandoned etc.  

The other problem, in China, is the fact that IA brings in a lot of money.  Right now, I think for every child adopted from a Chinese orphanage, the adoptive family pays the orphanage a fee of like 5000 dollars (it used to be 3000) when the average person makes something like 10 dollars a week in China, 5000 dollars is a HUGE sum.  There are families in China who wish to adopt the children in the orphanages, but because they cannot pay the huge 5000 fee that the child would "get" from being adopted internationally, they wait and wait, sometimes ten years before being able to adopt, if being able to adopt at all.

I personally think the IA practice in China is only hurting the children in the orphanages.  IF there is a home for them in China (and it seems that there is....see my second link in my sources) than I believe wholeheartedly that they should stay in China, their place of birth.  Yes, girls are treated differently there, so it is kind of a hard call to make, but...

a child should stay with biological mother and father is possible

if that is not possible, the child should stay with biological family

if that is not possible the child should stay in his/her country of origin with people of his/her race

if that is not possible the child should stay in his/her country of origin with people not of his/her race

if that is not possible the child should be adopted internationally by people of the same race

and LAST:

If that is not possible, the child should be adopted by people of a different race internationally.

The slippery slope of IA is confusing, but...again we cannot tell other people how they should feel.  What is common practice here, is not always common practice somewhere else.  Yes, people should be treated the same, no differently depending on gender, race etc.  But we do not live in Utopia, and it is silly to think that our way is the only right way.  If that makes any sense.

Answer 5

Adoption is not the solution to infanticide.  People will just have more children to replace those lost to adoption.  And if those disappoint (for whatever reason) they'll kill them or we'll have even more children enter adoption.  

You're trying to treat a symptom rather than looking for the root cause and addressing that.  

If one wants to stop infanticide on this scale, one needs to address the underlying poverty, over-population, and cultural norms that lead to it.  

Adoption is a rather blunt instrument for a rather delicate set of problems.