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@skip10 Is it not? There are lots and lots of people who get adopted out to strangers even if there is bio family who want them. Lots of white christians who focus on adoption as a way to raise kids of other races "right" and are willing to pay a lot of money for it. Adoption should be...

@skip10 Might hunt more resources on this topic later, but here's a start. https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/05/10/the-racialized-history-of-adoption-practice/ Read about magdalene laundries, how adoption was used to destroy native american family structure, and wartime adoptions.

@justintime25 It's a tina fey comedy, in which it's not just a comedy, it's a satire on sociocultural issues. And that doesn't take away the fact that tina fey when she wrote it, based it on this book and spent a lot of time in anti-bullying workshops to understand the interpersonal dynamics of...

@julz123 Adopted kids are overrepresented in every mental health issue including in suicide rates. Separating the child from the mother when they are preverbal is known as causing the 'primal wound'. I remember reading a nature-advocating book from the 90s or something where the author says her...

@danieldf she doesn't talk about attachment parenting, she suggests 1-1 caregiving for very young children with caregivers who aren't necessarily the mother and also has appeared on podcasts suggesting child-centered custody arrangements including for very young babies.

@mikalmo If you don't want to give birth naturally... don't? I spent 36 hours in labor with no meds. I didn't mind it. I just breathed and chanted and my husband gave me massages when it got too much and it worked for me. Why does that have to bother anyone? If it was unsafe, my obgyn would...