What Adoption Can Teach Us About Parenting
Learning from adoptees’ experiences can make you a better parent.
“[Adults] forget children are people.”
That is a sound bite from social media creator Karpoozy, an adoptee advocate I interviewed for this Romper story back in May.
I think about it almost daily, especially in my work as a youth crisis counselor. The adoptee experience highlights so much about how our society treats children.
Even if you were not adopted yourself and have no intention of adopting children, there’s a lot you can learn from adoptees and the corruption in the adoption industry.
A Brief Overview of Why Adoption is Messed Up in America
Adoption, as it exists in the United States today, is a business. Rather than a way of finding homes for orphaned children, it is about finding children for people who want them, orphaned or not. Hopeful parents will pay tens of thousands of dollars for a child.
How is exchanging money for children O.K.?
It’s not, but it’s easy to be distracted from the ethics of adoption when we are mesmerized by the narrative that adoption is a beautiful, heartwarming experience for all involved, and that it gives…
