If you have trouble accepting that adoption involves complex & chronic developmental trauma because it makes you feel badly about using adoption as a “solution” to abortion, it’s time to re-evaluate your beliefs.
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. #RoeVWade#RoeVsWade#abortion#adoption#MentalHealthAwareness
Without trauma-informed services, it’s very difficult to ensure the stability of as many adoptive families as possible. If you only care that kids are adopted but don’t care if they achieve safety & stability post-adoption, you don’t belong in this life-altering conversation.
To add for fellow activists - yes family preservation comes first. In the case of my message here, adopted kids continue to be created and continue to struggle post-adoption. And I *have* to provide & fight for post-adoption support & societal understanding on their behalf.
The people using adoption as a solution to abortion pose arguments that demean *both* family preservation and post-adoption support. These messages should be called out in protection of *both* of these needs/rights of children.
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Someone asked me why #AmyConeyBarrett’s thoughts on #SafeHaven are flawed. A brief summary… 1) SH itself is arguably unconstitutional. 2) The justification for SH is to prevent infanticide - not to facilitate adoption. 3) SH babies have no guarantee to be adopted….
4) SH represent a crisis situation. Desiring 1/4 of all people with uteruses to escalate to severe life crisis as a “solution” to anything is dangerous. 5) SH is for crisis. A number of rights & protections for parents and children are seen as secondary by the process….
SH offers no support or intervention. It has no mechanism for maintaining a child’s identity from birth (a human right). All of these children should enter state care with no documents or identity? Where are the human trafficking safeguards in that plan let alone civil rights?
As one of only a few post-adoption support specialists in the U.S., I’m disheartened to see folks use anti-abortion arguments that both encourage more adoptions while undermining the validity of post-adoption support at the same time. (Continued…)
. #RoeVWade#adoption#abortion
That’s what’s happening when people essentially publicly insist “Adoption can’t involve trauma because I need to feel good about using it in a politically-motivated argument about abortion.” OK well adoption does involve trauma - your argument is the problem.
Like, it’s super clear to adoptees that so many only care about our existence in an abstract sense as it pertains to political arguments. However, far less people will honor the emotional, intellectual, and cultural labor it takes to live out our developmental trajectory.
WOW @WIRED. This entire article is a dangerous, hyperbolic gishgallop of inaccuracies and stereotypes adoption scholars have labored decades to correct. And are easily disproven. I’m rarely speechless. But I don’t even know where to begin. #adoption#antiadoption#wired
Most pressing is mid-defining the Adoptee Rights Movement and calling it the “anti-adoption movement.” There *is* no anti-adoption movement in the U.S. A few anonymous and individual accounts do not comprise a movement and are certainly not the Adoptee Rights Movement. @WIRED
#AdopteeRights is about 1) increasing post-adoption support; 2) establishing equity for dependent children; 3) modernizing adoption to current best practices; 4) rectifying injustices that hurt adopted people and their families. Does your author have an issue with that? @WIRED