Sunday, February 19, 2006
How much is that baby in the window?
The Baby Trade, from the Boston Globe Magazine.
Interesting read (requires free registration). I think she leaves some things out on the bad side of the question of market forces playing a role in international adoptions.
posted by Kate @
2/19/2006 01:03:00 PM
2 Comments:
2 Comments:
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At 2/20/2006 02:15:00 PM,
Stinky Mouse said… -
At 2/21/2006 10:19:00 AM,
©Jac said…
I found the tone of the article to be very disturbing. As an adoptive parent I couldn't help but feel the author was trying to offend me. By the end of the article it seemed more balanced, but still it had a very "anti-adoption" feel to it.
It does raise very important questions though; ones that don't seem to get as much consideration as nursery color schemes on many adoption forums.
I assume among the bad things you think she left out are the instances of babies in China being stolen and sold that have been in the press lately.
I look at our new son, and think about how wonderfully things have worked out for him and for our family, then I wonder about his birth-mother.