just to be clear, i guess, i am not anti-adoption, but i am anti-adoption industry and there is a lot of reform that needs to be done... unfortunately it is a state-by-state thing and, at least in the case of texas, we have been fighting for decades (well, me personally since 2015 but others before me have for decades) but the texas senate is a beast in the pockets of the industry!!!
also i don't hate all adoptive parents, i know some very good people who are adoptive parents. My mom's adoptive father was an amazing man. i do hate abusive adoptive parents which unfortunately is more common than you would think. My mom's adoptive mother was abusive to her husband and actual horde of adopted children, and she is still controlling some of them as adults today, and having them stalk my family from the other side of the country. (cw: racism, racist abuse, and death) the white lesbian couple who abused & killed the children of color they adopted, for example... you know that famous photo of a Black boy crying and hugging the police? (link is to a New York Times article exposing the abuse). he was one of the children. These are extreme cases but they are not the only extreme cases, and even well-intentioned adoptive parents can cause irreparable harm to the people they adopt if they are not educated on the many traumas of adoption.
Increasing access to birth control, abortion, and sex education is how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The adoption industry wants to restrict access to these services because for each person who is compelled to relinquish a child to them, they make thousands and thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, birth parents and adoptees are left with silent trauma that will last their whole lives and often ends up becoming intergenerational.
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Ah, so I'm to the point in whatever is wrong with me that commercials make me cry specifically ones with child cancer patients or dogs.
And a commercial with a child cancer patient and a dog? Forget about it, man.
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Just found out I have a lot of Scottish in both my mom's side and my dads side
And my dad's grandma's side is predominantly Scottish and Irish
Idk what to do with this info I just think it's cool idk 💀
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