Why National Adoption Month is problematic
All I see are posts from adoptive parents, foster parents, and agencies talking about THEMSELVES. People wanting babies are shaming women for abortion and for keeping their babies. They're promoting themselves in hopes of getting a baby. Agencies are trying their best to make a quick buck. Promoting adoption as the way to go. Give your baby a better life. Want to help an orphan? Adopt internationally. There are many starving poor African kids. It's fucking gross.
This month was for FOSTER KIDS. OLDER FOSTER KIDS. People don't adopt older kids. By older I mean any child over the age of 6 years old. In foster care and adoption, if you're not a baby or a toddler nobody wants you. You're pretty much done with. You're screwed. So this month was created to help older kids and teens get adopted. Maybe people can look past the stereotypes of older kids. But yet again everyone else has to jump in. People always screw over foster kids. Everything we have is taken away. Now we have couples sobbing over not getting pregnant. Now they're hoping and praying they can adopt a newborn. We have agencies targeting pregnant women for their babies. We have adoptive parents and foster parent's sharing their child's story for attention. We have birth mom's sharing their story of adoption hoping other women will put their child up for adoption. Usually they're paid to promote this. If this month was actually for the kids, they'd ask us former foster kids to promote it. Instead it's all about money and getting likes for the adults. It's all about getting the kid you want-usually a baby. The children legally freed will continue to wait and age out. Again, nobody cares about the kids.