The industry preys on families and pregnant people who are in crisis and commodifies children. Children are priced based on age, gender, race, and health. Many adoptees have literal receipts. Adoption agencies run sales. Adoptees can be returned, resold, or swapped.

Even worse is the fact that the most common reason children are removed from families is due to lack of money and resources. And the system’s solution is to take them, give them to another family, and give *that* family money and resources.

To some. And pissing off others.

I have a polite relationship with my bio sibs but my brother is an ex-marine turned cop and my sister is a transphobe who I know voted for Trump. As much as I want to connect with them, we are fundamentally incompatible. APs are/were even worse.

Just saw an adoptee asking Reddit if they should be concerned. Disappointed at how many people were gaslighting them and pretending it’s a non-issue because they’re adopted.