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

Still Me

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.

PhilM

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.

Constance B

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.

TotalRecipeHound

<<"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?

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