[Quranic Reflection]: Surprise surprise..children are purchased to this day

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You read that right: yes...adopting a child cost money -money on the head of the newborn-.

In the U.S, this is the case:

https://www.adoptuskids.org/adoption-and...es-it-cost

Other types of adoption usually do cost money. According to Child Welfare Information Gateway, working with a private agency to adopt a healthy newborn or baby or to adopt from another country can cost $5,000 to $40,000. Some agencies have a sliding scale based on the prospective adoptive parent’s income.

Often, some  people accuse the Quran for advocating slavery when it mentions the story of Joseph -peace be upon him-, who got sold to a family that wants to adopt him:

Sura 12, The Quran:
https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/index.php?l=en#...rans=en_sh

( 21 )   And the one from Egypt who bought him said to his wife, "Make his residence comfortable. Perhaps he will benefit us, or we will adopt him as a son." And thus, We established Joseph in the land that We might teach him the interpretation of events. And Allah is predominant over His affair, but most of the people do not know.

But if this is the case from ancient times, then what differed today in the so called "free world" ? buying children using dollars doesn't change the case that this practice is not slavery even by the standards of anti-Islam people.

Children are sold to this day, and good people adopt them for a price. So what's the fuss about the Quran and slavery? note that taking slaves is not even mentioned in the book.

While it is true that the Quran does have a fairly mild view of slaves and slavery (considering the period), I think it is a mistake to equate modern adoption practices with slavery.

If children were truly bought and sold after the manner of slaves, it would simply be a matter of plunking down your money and saying, 'I'll take the third one on the left.'  The child could be maltreated with impunity, would have severely curtailed (if any) rights under law, and would remain in this state for life, barring some sort of manumission. Slaves are property, by definition.  Children are not, and adoption doesn't alter that.

The fact that there are fees associated with adoption doesn't qualify it as slavery.  Once again, you're being silly, silly, silly.

Boru