tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post5050711712952917138..comments2024-03-27T20:48:39.389-04:00Comments on [Birth Mother] First Mother Forum: The Global Trade in Babies Continues to BoomLorraine Duskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285341379272250245noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-16797353866691364512010-12-30T17:28:39.487-05:002010-12-30T17:28:39.487-05:00We had a visitor from S. Korea a couple of months ...We had a visitor from S. Korea a couple of months ago stating that new mothers get 10,000 towards housing costs. <br /><br />It is too much of an industry. It is so important to put pressure on the UN, educate people on the consequences of adoption, and to work on helping new parents or parents in general.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-57384198374269773722010-12-29T21:17:46.500-05:002010-12-29T21:17:46.500-05:00Karen,
Your son's adoptive father doesn't...Karen,<br /><br />Your son's adoptive father doesn't know what he is talking about. I was in South Korea in 2006. It is not a poor country. Of course, there are pockets of poverty as there are in the US. I saw many fine neighborhoods, new construction going on all over, upscale shopping malls, a fantastic public transit system, attractive recreational facilities, and so on. <br /><br />In the decades following the Korean War, Korean adoptions were related to poverty and discrimination against persons who were not "full-blooded" Koreans. Today, adoptions stem primarily from discrimination against single mothers (Korea is where the US was in the 60's), preference for male children over female children, and the profitability of adoption. <br /><br />Korean birth mothers are working to reduce adoptions and help single mothers keep their babies. In fact, they have recently inquired about becoming affiliated with CUB. Check out the Korean Unwed Mothers Support Group website, kumsn.org.Jane Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05669797756463841249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-85099820880756798932010-12-29T16:52:20.721-05:002010-12-29T16:52:20.721-05:00My first son's first adoptive father left righ...My first son's first adoptive father left right after he was adopted for Korea while in the Army. He did not return to the U.S. from Korea until 2 years ago with his new younger Korean wife. While over in Korea he earned a PhD from a South Korean university. So when I've emailed him the First Mother blogs about Korean adoptions, his immediate response was that now matter what the babies and children were much better off here in the U.S. than staying in wretched conditions in South Korea. He justified his comments to my pointing out the U.S. not ratifying the UN Rights of the Child as being ignorant about foreign living conditions for infants and young children which indeed I have not experiended first hand like he had.Karen Dawbernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-574300303008890516.post-3608068900844549312010-12-28T14:56:11.170-05:002010-12-28T14:56:11.170-05:00Just because a child is adopted by a two parent ch...Just because a child is adopted by a two parent church going couple does not mean that the child is better off than they are with their OWN PARENTS.<br /><br /><br />I have a friend who was adopted into those very circumstances and she was raped by her adoptive father regularly from the age of 8 to 17 or so.<br /><br /><br />Do you think she was better off with her adoptive familiy?<br /><br /><br />If adoption is truly the best thing for the child, then why don't you give up your children to a deserving couple? I'm sure we can find someone in better circumstances (there's always someone in better curcumstances), so you should give them up to give them a better future.<br /><br /><br />Your perspective is logical and sane only when viewed through the eyes of western privledge. The adoption agencies have long abandoned the principle of finding families for children that need them. Now they operate under the idea of finding children for parents that want them. How sad.<br /><br /><br />Also, thank you, Mr. Feffer, for not propagating the "magic of international adoption" myth.tinanoreply@blogger.com