How do you feel about the idea of Babies as commodities?

sunny

Wait a minute here! I thought the Gladney Center was a non-profit!

Fancy marketing campaign and website makeover on the backs of babies and their mothers...deplorable.

Gershom

Anyone else bothered by the fact that Gladney pays their top Directors over 100,000$'s annually?

I am.

Anyone else bothered that Gladney raked in over 16 million dollars in 2006? I am, oh, but children aren't commodities right, and these are non profit organizations acting in good will for the better of humanity. roflol

LaurieDB

The Gladney Center is a business. It is in business to succeed. Simply being non-profit doesn't mean profit isn't made. It just means that money made goes back into the business. That can be in the form of high salaries. It can be in the form of more staff. It can be in the form of marketing and advertising. Non-profit doesn't mean that the organization is getting by on a wing and a prayer.

The Gladney Center is financially successful. The way it makes its money is by selling its services, which is finding children for its customers. No available children equals no money being made. It is in Gladney's best interest to make certain there are children available for adoption for its customer base. Children as commodities? Certainly, for the Gladney Center.

Gaia Raain

The word "marketing". That says it all. Just try and explain THAT.

Heather Leigh

Sounds like they are selling flippen Big Macks...Why would an adoption agency need a "marketing campaign"? I mean isn't it illegal to sell babies?

amyburt40

On one of the Gladney tax forms I saw that they were going to recruit more mothers to relinquish. This kind of marketing is diminishing to adoptees and their families. It pushes us as commodities.

Independ"ant"

Sick.
I feel sick but I don't think people desperate for a baby really care. Too many only listen to the organizations giving them hope for the next best? thing to a biological child. Unfortunately, what its going to take are "laws" to encourage morality and ethics in this industry. Too many people just care about themselves and their infertility issues or making money.

How low can the people involved in this industry go. Do more murders of nmoms in the US need to happen to get them to wake up.

I personally feel like they should be the ones placed in the Chinese type labor camps for "re education" along side every nparent arrested and forced to go there just for looking for their kidnapped children who are sold abroad to foreigners.

I don't see how anyone involved in these atrocities can live with themselves never mind sleep at night.

Denial can only run so deep. The day will come where they will be forced out of it. I personally will not care about their self inflicted pain.

Mei-Ling

They're not commodities.

At least in *some* countries.

grapesgum

I read some of the materials for "birth" mothers. They use blatant indoctrination techniques to recruit pregnant teens into the "birth" mother cult. They claim to help women weigh ALL options, but use lies to shoot holes into any option other than adoption.

Hopefully, they had to change their marketing strategy because they are running out of women who are willing to be industry breeders to keep the supply of babies up.

The idea of a human being marketed as a commodity is disgusting. It results in a legal process that strips a person of his/her identity by forcing a helpless baby to live with a "birth" certificate that is a lie.

Lola

Who cares. Babies need to be saved.

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