How hypocritical is this?
A lot of adoptees oppose or question adoption because of the philosophy of “saving” and “rescuing” the “poor children” in third world countries that underlies the institution.
Is this not the same philosophy that so many social workers and psychologists are applying to adoptees now? We’re “wounded,” they say, “traumatized” by the separation from our birth mothers, even if we were too young to remember that separation, so we need help and support, we need to “recover” and “heal.” And that recovery and healing includes searching out our pasts, our original families and/or birth countries. In essence, we poor, troubled adoptees need to be “saved” from the big, bad influence of our adoptive families and the adoption agencies that placed us.
Sorry, but you can’t have it both ways. You can’t condemn a philosophy and then turn around and use it to defend your own rhetoric.
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