{"id":3126,"date":"2011-02-03T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/the-myth-of-international-orphans-that-need\/"},"modified":"2011-02-03T14:11:20","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T14:11:20","slug":"the-myth-of-international-orphans-that-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/the-myth-of-international-orphans-that-need\/","title":{"rendered":"The myth of international orphans that need “rescuing”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great post at RH Reality Check, The Lie We Love<\/a> about international adoptions. From the piece:<\/p>\n

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Westerners have been sold the myth of a world orphan crisis. We are told that millions of children are waiting for their \u201cforever families\u201d to rescue them from lives of abandonment and abuse. But many of the infants and toddlers being adopted by Western parents today are not orphans at all. Yes, hundreds of thousands of children around the world do need loving homes. But more often than not, the neediest children are sick, disabled, traumatized, or older than 5. They are not the healthy babies that, quite understandably, most Westerners hope to adopt. There are simply not enough healthy, adoptable infants to meet Western demand\u2014and there\u2019s too much Western money in search of children. As a result, many international adoption agencies work not to find homes for needy children but to find children for Western homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More at the link above, specifically, a great analysis about who is driving the supply of these adoptions and the devastating effects on children who, in many cases, end up victims of a gray area trafficking situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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