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wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

This is some garbage. Adoption is NOT buying and selling children. I mean, I guess that happens under the guise of adoption. But tons of kids in foster care need permanent homes and loving families, and their biological family is not an option for any number of reasons. It is a tragedy that this happens, but fuck off with this narrative that adoption is buying and selling kids. Tons of other shit in there was bogus too. Fuck this article.

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radicalautonomy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d imagine they were meaning to refer to the practice of foster “parents” signing up to take in kids in order to receive money money every month that they use mostly as personal income for themselves while neglecting the kid. Cuz yeah, adoption is very different.

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TheFriar@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, that was a super weird inclusion.

Now, propublica did a great multipart series on people actually selling and buying children on Craigslist and Facebook. Foster parents take kids in for the money, then shuffle them off to basically predators. Not basically, they were almost all predators. Just by getting in touch with hem via email after finding each other on Craigslist or Facebook groups.

It was horrifying, but I can’t find the article anymore. I could’ve sworn it was propublica, but now I’m second guessing that, unless they has to take it down, maybe by claims from meta.

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