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Adoption and Privilege
February 25, 2007
I have always really admired Dawn for speaking up about the inherent inequity of even just the concept of adoption. Like many institutions that we take for granted, it depends upon gross disparity for its mere existence. It's something that seems so obvious now after reading Dawn's blog for so long, but I don't think I ever would have thought about it if Dawn did not work so hard to keep putting the issue on the table.
Today, she linked up this post by another mama who is also tireless in her efforts to keep raising the important issues about adoption and inequality, who says:
The question is, how did I end up in a position to adopt and how did Rose and so many women like her, end up in a position not to be able to keep their babies (or to be able to prevent having them in the first place if they choose)? I do think that in a considerably more "perfect world" there might very well still sometimes be women who become pregnant and yet just simply don't want to be parents. There might be orphans whose parents have died. There might be women who want to parent with people not genetically kin to their children. So sure, there would be adoption in that world. But there would not be such disparity of privilege--race, class, cultural and national privilege--that render some women adopters and some women first mothers automatically, almost as if stamped on their heads at birth.
I am thankful that she did.
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