[Peace-discuss] Anti-Lactating Feminazis

[Dan Schreiber]

I've adopted 3 children transracially, although it has been 7 years since
our last adoption, so my stats may be out of date.  

Adoptive parents have to go through specific agencies or lawyers, and the
wait time depends on the number of birth moms going through that agency, and
not necessarily on the overall number of available babies.  I know a number
of cases where a black baby was available for adoption, but had to be moved
to a different agency to find parents willing to adopt transracially.
However, you are right that even non-white newborns are eventually adopted.

One thing to note is that abortions *have* been decreasing since 1990, as
the stigma of unwed motherhood goes down, and contraceptive use goes up.
So, it sounds like people are listening to you John, and being a tad more
responsible about sex :)

Dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bambenek [mailto:jcb.blog at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:41 PM
> To: Dan Schreiber
> Cc: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Anti-Lactating Feminazis
> 
> I'm sorry, do you have some experience in the adoption system that I'm
> unfamiliar with... because at least when I checked, my findings were
> exactly true.
> 
> To be fair, the waiting time is shorter for minority children but it
> is still on the order of a half as long.  I'm not saying there isn't a
> measure of racism, but I am saying all newborns will get adopted.
> 
> http://www.adoptionservices.org/adoption/adoption_waiting_period.htm
> 
> This resource, which appears reputable, gives some details on the
> waiting list, namely that all newborns are adopted quickly and it's
> parents, not children, that have to wait.
> 
> Now, when you get much older than newborn, there's a glut of children
> to be adopted, certainly when you are talking about foster kids.
> However, that's not the objection here.  There will be no orphanage
> with thousands of newborns if abortion stopped tomorrow.
> 
> Hell, abortions would likely decrease dramatically if people were just
> a tad more responsible about having sex (i.e. realizing that children
> are a natural result of pregnancy and acting accordingly).
> 
> On 9/7/06, Dan Schreiber <dan at sourcegear.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > And for the record there is quite a long waiting list for newborns...
> > > all newborns, black, white, hispanic, mixed, etc.
> > >
> >
> > That's not true.  There is a long wait list for white newborns, but not
> for
> > non-white newborns.  Also, white adoptions cost more.  Another data
> point
> > that we certainly don't live in a colorblind society.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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