Well if you’ve been reading my blog for very long, then you know that my answer to the title of this post is YES. I just read a blog post by another blogger, who is only just discovering the hidden truth of selling children through adoption in the United States. I thought it was thought provoking for anyone just touching into the iceberg of the adoption industry.
He repeats a story of a Puerto Rican girl who was denied assistance through an agency because they feared her baby would be “too black.” So they wouldn’t help her because we all know that white babies are in greatest demand, and that which brings in the greatest demand, makes the agencies the most money.
I don’t agree with the original post ( his was a reflection from another post.) The original posters of this racist adoption agency situation want to now, after hearing the story, start their own adoption agency ( pffft.) Like America needs another to add to the 3000+. They are anti-abortionists and feel adoption is an alternative to abortion blah blah blah. If only they would realize the benefit to helping families stay together is so much more rewarding, and richer, so much more worthwhile than encouraging the separation and leaving the separated with loss and pain.
Anyways, check out the post if you’re up for a good reflection of adoptees being commodities 
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maybe // September 18, 2008 at 10:21 am |
I attempted to post a prayer for the young mother-to-be in the article.
Comment moderation is on, so I will post it here in case it doesn’t get approved.
I ask the Lord to give her the strength, courage, and resources to give birth to, raise, and love her baby. Please bless her with the ability to nuture and protect her flesh and blood, as you have given her this child for a reason. Please surround her with loving family and friends who will help her as this child grows into adulthood. Thank you for showing us, through the love and devotion bestowed by the Virgin Mother towards her precious baby, that mothers everywhere can be supported in raising and loving their children.
Amen
Gershom // September 18, 2008 at 10:42 am |
And an excellent prayer at that! Thanks for sharing it here
suz // September 18, 2008 at 10:48 am |
Interesting.
Just had this conversation on my private list regarding Kurtz. Kurtz was known to only place white children and turned away any children or mothers of color or mixed race as there was little demand for such infants (and as such no profit). Prospective adoptive parents who approached Kurtz did so with the demands for healthy, white children – most often preferred – girls. Boys usually cost less. Children of color or mixed race in later years were also discounted. I am friendly with a white adoptive mother who adopted from Kurtz. Kurtz found HER as she was known as a mother who would adopted biracial children. The agency indicated they got “stuck” with a biracial child after the white bother lied about the fathers race. The biracial child cost less than white babies. One adopptive mother in NY was given a child she was told was of Italian heritage. Upon receipt of her child, her pediatrician questioned the heritage and the mother later learned the child was in fact, half Mexican. Mother argued with agency and was given a rebate on her half white/half mexican child.
I know of a mom who gave birth in Atlanta after having been boarded in a Kurtz maternity home. When the child was born, the child was biracial (she had insisted the father was white). The atgency social worker left the mom in the hospital with no where to live, no way to pay her bills, no one to check her and her biracial “unwanted” child out of the hospital. I have no idea where that mother and baby ended up.
I could go on but you get my point hopefully.
I have no words for such behavior.
Gershom // September 18, 2008 at 11:12 am |
Being bi-racial myself, this really irks me. I am many races. So many its hard to count them all. You can see my videos over there on the <<<<< left, so you can see I don’t look “that” bi-racial. It really depends on who is looking at me. Some people think i totally look mixed, but in my racial identity crisis years growing up, i easily blended into my crowd of white friends.
Anyways, I was told this story growing up, about how my aparents never would have gotten me if they hadn’t checked the “bi-racial okay” box. I can’t remember who used to tell it to me, but at the time I didn’t “get it” the way I do now. I didn’t know then that because my mother isn’t white at all, that i was cheaper. I cost LESS and I was less in demand.
It really adds to the whole “fuck you” feelings I have for the industry in general. Those stories are crazy Suz.
The Improper Adoptee // September 18, 2008 at 6:18 pm |
You know this is digusting. Now I have heard it all…it is bad enough they engage in the corrupt profession of Adoption, but this agency is bigoted too? They only want pure white little drones to sell? Really. I’m going to puke. Someone get me the bastard barf bucket. I HATE ADOPTION. I HATE ADOPTION AGENCIES. If you hear back from God maybe, tell him I want a refund from this life….
The Improper Adoptee // September 19, 2008 at 5:24 am |
for you know being a “gift” and all….
imtina // September 19, 2008 at 9:09 am |
Oh, this is horrible and so sad. Bleh, shouldn’t have read this first thing in the morning.
Thank you for linking to this.
Tina
Gershom // September 19, 2008 at 9:17 am |
YW ladies! Love to make people nauseous first thing in the morning roflol, thats my style ( hope you sensed my sarcasm. )