How could adoption be made illegal?

thiscantbehappening

it should never be made illegal why would you want it to be illegal!!!

newenglandjoy

This question is PREPOSTEROUS!!!

Faith K

why the hell would you want to do that? without adoption, my mom and dad wouldnt have kids. without adoption, my son wouldnt have a real family. adoption is the biggest gift in the world. it may not go the way you want it to, but it is truly a miricle.

Ashley

I think adoption is a GREAT thing. People out there instantly becomes parents when others aren't ready to! If it was made illegal, then there would be WAY MORE kids abused, or killed!!!! I think things are fine the way it is! I just think that people should adopt within their own country first! But that's their decision on that one!

WTF?

Why would you want to take away the option of adopting a child from people who are not able to conceive?

Children who are born to people who can't take care of them for various reasons need a loving home and all life necessities that they may not be able to get from the birth parents.

My twin and i were adopted and i am 100% thankful for that. Without my APs i wouldn't have the life i have today. I would be in foster care, my twin and i could have been separated or any other crappy outcomes.

john

dont be silly mate

crzymmof8

I think this shows true ignorance. What about all the kids who need permanency in the foster care system??? Adoption is an institution that has been here a long time (actually all over the world.) I agree there are some definite issues with private adoptions now but there are more realistic ways of dealing with that.

Kini

Realistically adoption could not be made illegal, this is about as nonsensical as questions come. So what would happen to all of the children in state care that have parents who are unable to parent or were taken out of abusive situations?

It sounds like you have a lot of issues with adoption, a wiser use of your time would be talking to a therapist.

kitta

The adoption industry, as it exists in the USA, should be illegal.

In order to change it, the general public would have to have a change of heart. So far, that hasn't happened.

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Pregnant with baby # 2

I think the question is how to make people like you worry about your own lives. Its not illegal for a reason. It never was and never will be. I'm so sick of hearing about anti abortion people. You have every right to not be a fan of it but that doesn't mean we all have to have the same views as you.

Krista R

I do not feel that this question is crazy or a waste of time. Babies are being bought and sold, especially to the wealthy in the United States. Madonna showed the true side of that recently. What about a guardianship? My birth certificate states that I was a "live birth" to my amother. Why is my original document on this Earth falsified? I spent 30 years in role to be someone I am not. I know that adoption, especially the lies, and "putting a square peg in a round hole", so to speak, was not healthy for me. Openness, honesty, original heritage, TRUTH. How is this crazy?

racheypoo

Probably the same way in which saying ridiculous things anonymously on the internet could be made illegal.

Jackie B

What then, is your proposed solution for children whose parents' rights have been terminated by the courts?

Are you one of Get Real's other personalities?

kateiskate is getting married

Adoption will never be made illegal. Can we please discuss something constructive? I know it's a Friday, but geez.

chickadee

I've seen a lot of people talking about the UK and Australia's adoption systems. I don't know a lot about them, but they sound really good. I too don't like to see people profiting so much from the adoption industry.

Regardless though, I still think you are crazy!!!

Jennifer L

Can I get some restitution for wasting the few seconds of my life it took me to read this question?

Hope Lily's mummy (06/12/09)

I don't really understand what you are asking.

Adoption is a way for children to have a family upbringing when they are unable to stay with their birth parents. What do you suggest, that they just stay in children's homes for the rest of their lives??

And the couples who give these children loving homes - should they have to remain childless when there are children needing homes all over the world?

Illegal adoptions and people trafficking - that's another story and there are already laws against such acts.

Melissa Swan

are you really Get Real?

Stardust - expecting baby no.3!!

i dont think it should be made illegal - there are thousands and thousands of children out there in childrens homes with no parents, no love, no support - i think they deserve a chance at having a loving family

there are also millions of couples out there who cant have children - so perfect way to rectify this would be to adopt children!

why shouldnt adopted children have a chance at happiness?

sam22254

Even what my family has gone through with my grandchild being taken in adoption and our long court battles fighting to get him back I don't feel like all adoptions should be illegal but i feel that couples and adoption agencies that take children with out the parents knowing and hiding the child to use best interest should be treated like any other kidnapper and jailed. Right now a adoption agency can do this and just get a slap on the hand and maybe sued but they will never feel the pain that they put the child and natural parent through.
Adoptions are good for the lost child the ones that parents are on drugs even the ones in prison. Or worse the ones that are abuse. Foster care is not the answer.
They are changing the laws where any one can buy the after morning pill easy so there will be a lot more abortions. Sad fact.

aloha.girl59

I didn't purchase my son. His fmom was unable to take care of him and he was removed from her care by DCFS when he was still in the hospital after being born.

I have tremendous empathy for my son's first mother as I can't imagine how horrible it must be to have your child taken away from you. However, my son needed a family to take care of him. That was beyond his control and unfortunate for his mother, but still true. I did nothing wrong by adopting him and feel no guilt.

Trent

What a sad, dumb fool you are....

Let me see... where I live, we currently have roundabout 1.5 million homeless orphans. Most of their parents have died of AIDS or have dumped them somewhere, because they didn't want them or didn't know what to do with them.
So you want to tell me, just because there are a few agencies in your country, who indeed make a lot of money with adoptions, one should make adoption illegal? Rather keep them on the streets or in homes without the chance to have a loving family? I'd suggest deal with those greedy adoption agencies in a different way, like someone else here has mentioned they've done in the U.K. and Australia.
You are just another narrow-minded American who can't look beyond the borders of his country.
Obviously you are adopted and obviously you are very angry. I just love it, when people like you try to impose their feelings on everyone else, just to make themselves feel better.

Again, what a sad, dumb fool you are....

Why the f.u.c.kis adoption evil you massive weirdo

LinnyG

By not allowing pre-birth matching and not having any money exchange hands for a child.

Adoption will never be illegal, nor should it be illegal. There will always be cases where a child cannot be raised by a member of their natural family. When that happens, the adoption must be ethical and inexpensive.

"Restitution"?????? I dont want 40 acres and a mule. I want my original birth certificate, troll.

Not a sweetie

Yahoo is not a place to rant. You have an issue there and should consult your therapist.

H******

Perhaps by using the UK and Australia as examples and making private adoption for profit illegal.

Money should never change hands in exchange for a human life, whoever the money is paid to and whatever it's for 'fees' or under other guises. period.

Most civilized nations see the potential for corruption when adoption is a 'business' involving $$$ I guess free enterprise is everything in the US, including the trade of human flesh. shrugs.

smarmy

I'm curious how a question about adoption, turned into anti abortion?
I think the suggestion of following another countries example, which has been in place for a while and is working, would be the best solution.

SLY

I vote for following the Australian model. There is very little adoption in Australia now, and almost no infant adoption. One of the things that is the best about the Australian model is that there was an investigation into past adoption practices. Australia and the UK opened the records for ALL parties involved in the adoption, not just the adoptees. The natural parents were included, as is only just and right. There was a Parliamentary Inquiry in Aus and adoption there was shown for what it was, a criminal act against women, in large part.

In the US, I am afraid, it is big business, and there is little or no incentive to put the reins on a business which is growing and showing a profit. If the people who are most affected by it complain, all you have to do is call them bitter, divide them (as in the fight to open the records for ONLY adoptees and AP's) and then dismiss them. If they begin to make a little headway, create a diversion and they will squabble amongst themselves until there is no fight left in them.

Mothers of SMAAC and other groups are working toward gaining recognition for the crimes that were committed against women during the EMS/BSE, but it is difficult to get people to listen. There was some interest when the Fessler book came out, but again we are largely ignored as a bunch of angry old women who can't get over our losses. Why should we not be angry? Would it not be insane to not be angry at the illegal things that were done to us, including the taking of our most precious right...the right to parent our own children?

The enemy is well-funded, well-trained and is fighting for its existence in the US. The government makes huge amounts of money available to them to research their side and suppress anything that doesn't show adoption in the very highest light. According to the things that they come up with, every single child in the US would be better served by going to another set of parents besides the ones that Nature gave them. It is insanity, and I am afraid that I will be dead before the dust settles on all of this and reason prevails.

The bottom line is heritage and family matter.

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