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Moral failures and market failures: why we should abandon intercountry adoption and support local foster care : Comments

By Vittorio Cintio, published 12/11/2014

We know from past history that adoption flourishes when governments deny the resources that families and communities need to look after their own children.

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In my view, which is shared by many others around the world, adoption will not solve any of the problems which children face. In this day and age, we have to learn from the experiences of the past and create more child-focussed alternatives for children at risk.
Posted by Louisa, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 12:09:30 PM
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More bleeding heart rubbish.

Solve the problem the easy, & best way. Eliminate all benefits from single mothers, who have conceived out of a relationship. With single motherhood suddenly no longer being a ticket to a welfare lifestyle, there will be lots of would be loving & supportive people adopting these kids, & making great parents. The kids would be true accidents, & not a welfare application, as so many are today.

There would no longer be large communities of single mothers, with 3 or 4 father unknown kids in housing commission, or cheap private flats, growing fat on welfare.

Not only would the kids be much better off, but the welfare bill for volunteer welfare recipients would reduce. Hell it would even reduce the number of second & third Muslim wives being taxpayer funded as single mothers.

Oh, & sack all social workers who have been in the "industry" more than 4 years. Lets stop it becoming an even bigger industry, it is one Australia could well do without.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 1:57:13 PM
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Do you include widows and deserted wives Hasbeen, or just those pregnant by accident, say as a consequence of date rape and Rohypnol?
And given we are not to support any single mum, should mandatory abortion or even sterilization be included in your list of wants?
And what's the difference between a Muslim second wife and a christian's mistress or mistresses, all of who have equal chances of falling pregnant, and through no fault of their own, but rather, religious conviction or a con-artist of a man, promising the world to achieve his ends.
A very pregnant daughter was routinely informed during a weekend visit with her mum, her ex army future husband, father of her child and love of her life, had suddenly suicided!
Would you add her to your completely inflexible list?
Or your own daughters, who as humans, are also capable of being taken in by super salesmen out to get what he wants; or dumped by dead beat husbands?
My own abandoned mother tried for 3.5 years on her own, but was forced to concede defeat in hospital and hovering near death's door.
Fortunately, from your perspective, no taxpayer dollar ever found her way into her ultra slim purse.
All these ladies are already doing it tough, and were you given any power over their lives, a dam sight tougher!
When it comes to taxpayer handouts, the very first on my list of those to exclude, would be men supported by women, but still putting their hand out for a full government pension!
But particularly those high flyers and thrill seekers, who made an art-form of dodging tax, in their former lives!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 2:58:16 PM
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The author of the article has reseasrched the subject and his opinion is sound and is derived from the realities of the international adoption situation. Louisa's comments are also very pertinent. We would like to think that our governments can learn from the wrongs of the past and so place the emphasis on providing well-supported consistent permanent care where necessary for every child who is unable to live with its natural parents. Foster parents often do not get the assistance they deserve, likewise there is insufficient help in the community for natural parents living with domestic violence and other issues that may damage their children. Its not appropriate to deny children in 3rd world countries their birthright to remain with their community and language group in order to satisfy the desires of weathier westerners to rear children. This is the road to creating another stolen generation!
Posted by Jenny P, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 3:11:07 PM
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International adoption is a system filled with documented and on-going patterns of adoption agency corruption, re-homing, baby stealing, child trafficking, coercion of the biological parents and legal violations. Corruption and abuse are so vast that nearly half the 40 countries listed by the U.S. State Department as the top sources for international adoption from 1995-2008 temporarily halted adoptions or were prevented from sending children to the United States.

I was adopted from a German orphanage by an American couple and collaborated with other "foreign" adoptees to create this video about international adoption. I couldn’t agree more with this article.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJlnfkRtBX4
Posted by PreRaphaelite, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 3:48:37 PM
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Even better thought Hasbeen. Remove all welfare from single mothers and remove all welfare from every man who has fathered a child and make every male completely unable to get out of paying a significant portion of every penny or asset he ever earns until his child is 30 or is working in the profession he/she wants, whichever comes first. Deposit it in a special 'Child account' to prevent whinging that the mother is living it up on the proceeds.

That'll make all the boys zip up their pants unless they know they are able and willing to have a child, and changes the notion of who is responsible for contraception and each and every single child born.

Results? 1. Fewer children living in poverty because fewer women made to be solely responsible.
2. Fewer sexual assaults.

A win-win situation if you ask me. For children, women and tax-payers.
Posted by yvonne, Wednesday, 12 November 2014 3:53:21 PM
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