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| Kathryn Joyce |
Journalist Kathryn Joyce takes on domestic infant adoption and
international adoption in her new book,
The Child Catchers, forcefully demonstrating its unsavory realities, including how it exploits vulnerable mothers. While the general public may believe adoption is a win-win solution that saves children, builds families, and allows poor biological mothers to get on with their lives, Joyce portrays it as the billion dollar industry it is, fueled by
money, religious fervor, the high demand for children, and misguided
altruism. She backs up her claims with scrupulous research--visits to foreign orphanages and
adoption facilities, interviews with adoption practitioners, narratives
of adoptees and first parents, statistical data, marketing materials,
and media reports.
