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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat
never put much thought into this particular issue... however, I see adoption mainly as a way for heterosexual couples who can't have children, to fulfill their desire to have them and form a 'traditional family'....... also, another important (though less frequent IMO) reason for adoptions is the desire to help to children who have been abandoned or lost their parents
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an interesting thing.. i made a hoax site about adopting kids for their "non-essential organs" (eye, inner ear, bone marrow etc) and predictably got bombarded with 1000's of e-mails from adoption agencies and adopted people.
i think that if people stopped to actually take a hard look at the total number of children who are permanently scarred, they would be quite surprised. i wasn't even aware of the large number of adopted people that were against adoption and felt like their identity was stripped away etc.
and... the reasons for adoption and the process itself is quite morbid. you talk about a "desire to help children" but the fact of the matter is that people are searching for kids based on race, ethnic background, religious back ground, physical characteristics etc and going to places like Russia and paying 30,000.00 USD in "fees" in addition to the obscene fees on the US side to "help a child".
its by far one of the dirtiest and most disturbing businesses in existence in the world today.