Quote:Where do these babies come from?.....evidence that babies in many countries are being systematically bought, coerced, and stolen away from their birth families. Nearly half the 40 countries listed by the U.S. State Department as the top sources for international adoption over the past 15 years...have at least temporarily halted adoptions or been prevented from sending children to the United States because of serious concerns about corruption and kidnapping.http://foreignpolicy.com/2009/10/06/the-lie-we-love/
Along the way, the international adoption industry has become a market often driven by its customers. Prospective adoptive parents in the United States will pay adoption agencies between $15,000 and $35,000 (excluding travel, visa costs, and other miscellaneous expenses) for the chance to bring home a little one....Agencies claim the costs pay for the agency’s fee, the cost of foreign salaries and operations, staff travel, and orphanage donations. But experts say the fees are so disproportionately large for the child’s home country that they encourage corruption.
Quote:What is it with celebrities and African babies?.....According to reports, Madonna is the latest celebrity to adopt a child from the developing world. If the story is true, the 48-year-old singer has adopted a one-year-old boy from Malawi after a visit to the country. I'm afraid only two words spring to mind: vanity project. Madge wants a baby, so she goes to Africa and "saves" one - that way she gets her baby and scores points for doing a good deed.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/oct/06/comment.familyandrelationships
....I am sick of the idea that adoption by white westerners is the best thing for an African child.....The impression given is that by adopting an African child Madonna is somehow "rescuing" him from a life of misery. The implication being that anything is better than growing up in Africa, even having Madonna as a mother.
But no amount of luxury can make up for having lost my family.
It's arrogant to assume the only way to deal with poverty in the developing world is for westerners to adopt a few "lucky" children.
It is a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies...(Ernesto Che' Guevara)
