![]() On the international front, American religiously-affiliated agencies warn of an “orphan crisis” and battle watchdog organizations who cite baby buying, forged documents, trafficking, and other abuses. These days it’s much harder to get a single woman to relinquish a child for adoption perhaps unsurprisingly, some Christian adoption agencies work (overtly or covertly) with so-called crisis pregnancy centers to recruit birth mothers. ![]() ![]() During what’s now known as the Baby Scoop Era, which spanned from 1945 to 1972, societal stigma against single-motherhood and lack of birth control or abortion services combined to provide a steady stream of available babies. She writes of a new emphasis on adoption in conservative Christian circles - often focusing on a Bible verse, James 1:27, that asks the faithful to look after widows and orphans - that has spawned a paradigm converting any unmarried pregnant woman into a birth mother, her child into an orphan (caring for widows is forgotten). In popular rhetoric), domestic adoption too often involves manipulation, coercion, and intimidation of mothers, Joyce argues. Although lauded as a humane and wholly positive solution to unwanted pregnancies (a “win-win” ![]() ![]() “Well-meaning people can enable tragedy with their good intentions,” Kathryn Joyce writes in this razor-sharp investigation into adoption. ![]()
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