This National Adoption Month, check out our partners who are shifting dominant adoption narratives:

Adoptees Crossing Lines
@adopteecrossing.bsky.social

Reproductive Justice in Adoption
www.reprojusticeinadoption.org

Radical, abolitionist family-building:

✔️ protects family bonds.

✔️ honors chosen family.

✔️ builds kinship free from coercion & state violence.

Radical, abolitionist family-building rejects the commodification, separation, and displacement of children from their families & communities.

Rather than provide a robust social safety net to meet the needs of marginalized families, the state facilitates the buying and selling of their children through adoption.

This is human trafficking, plain and simple.

Adoption is a multi-billion dollar industry.

States receive financial rewards for every child adopted beyond the previous year’s total, private agencies charge tens of thousands of dollars in fees, and people who adopt get tax subsidies—while parents are left in poverty without their children.

Private adoption is not the “consensual choice” it is marketed to be.

In truth, state-imposed poverty and racism puts a target on parents’ backs, making them vulnerable to the private adoption industry’s predatory and coercive tactics.

Adoption through the foster system depends on the state forcibly and permanently separating a child from their parent, often because of poverty and structural racism.

This is one of the most violent powers the state can wield.

Private adoption, too, requires permanent family separation.

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That’s valid. I shouldn’t have made it a blanket statement but I think what I was trying to convey is that the majority of the time when they say unsafe they really mean is neglect aka being poor. Thank you for the feedback.

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Thank you for sharing! It has been a minute, I hope you are well. 🥹