The Baby Market

Anne Moody

doi:10.5771/9781538174722

The Baby Market

The Case for Adoption Reform

Published 2023

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doi.org/10.5771/9781538174722
ISBN print: 978-1-5381-7471-5
ISBN online: 978-1-5381-7472-2
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today.

Written by the director of an adoption agency and the author of The Children Money Can Buy, The Baby Market illustrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in infant adoption over the past two decades, resulting in what feels like a wild west of adoption in which money is the might that makes right and the law is very hard to find. The book follows the true stories of women who choose adoption for their babies, some of them making this choice multiple times. There are also stories from adoptive parents who relate their experiences with scams, disappointments, emotional and financial exploitation, and the dubious “assistance” of baby brokers. The process of adopting a baby involves struggle, uncertainty, and even heartache but, for many people, somehow manages to end happily when birth and adoptive parents create connections that respectfully and even joyfully meet their need for one another. The Baby Market provides welcome encouragement and much needed information about how to avoid the numerous pitfalls inherent in adoption and offers suggestions for the reform of a corrupted adoption system.

Schlagworte

Adoption Parenting adopted children adoption challenges adopted child psychology adopted family adoptee adopting parents adoption anxiety adoption culture adoption depression adoption triad adoptive parent open adoption parenting insecurity teenage adoption multiethnic adoption multiracial adoption child rearing children healing children trauma closed adoption foster care children birth mother birth parent infant development

Keywords

foster care

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Preface
- Contents
- Author’s Note on Terms
- Acknowledgments
1–4 Introduction: Can This Be Real? 1–4
5–13 Chapter One. The Vagaries of the Marketplace 5–13
14–27 Chapter Two. Owen and Kira: An Adoptive Family’s Story 14–27
28–37 Chapter Three. Why Is Adoption So Hard? 28–37
38–49 Chapter Four. Lindy: A Birth Mother’s Story 38–49
50–56 Chapter Five. Where Does All the Money Go? 50–56
57–63 Chapter Six. Yes, It’s Legal 57–63
64–72 Chapter Seven. Middlemen 64–72
73–82 Chapter Eight. Julia: A Single Adoptive Mother’s Story 73–82
83–89 Chapter Nine. Birth Mothers in the Media 83–89
90–95 Chapter Ten. Did Birth Mothers Change? 90–95
96–100 Chapter Eleven. What Will We Tell the Children? 96–100
101–108 Chapter Twelve. What about the Siblings? 101–108
109–118 Chapter Thirteen. John and Hannah: A Foster-to-Adopt Story 109–118
119–125 Chapter Fourteen. What about All the Kidsin Foster Care? 119–125
126–132 Chapter Fifteen. Working with the Child Welfare System 126–132
133–141 Chapter Sixteen. Not to Scare You, But . . . 133–141
142–147 Chapter Seventeen. Adoption Specialists 142–147
148–155 Chapter Eighteen. Adoption Reform 148–155
156–158 Chapter Nineteen. Closing the Gray Market 156–158
159–164 Epilogue 159–164
165–168 Index 165–168
169–170 About the Author 169–170

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