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We care. China expanded its domestic-adoption program and reversed its one-child policy in , dramatically reducing the number of girls who were relinquished for adoption. Then, last year, Bethany closed its international-adoption program , instead focusing on its in-country foster-care and adoption programs.
In other words, Ethiopians, not Americans, will adopt Ethiopian children. Even Joyce, the Child Catchers author and a critic of the evangelical adoption movement, says the groups have changed. About four years ago, Joyce appeared on a Christian Alliance for Orphans panel, and even then she noticed more talk of family preservation. The adoption movement had seemingly grappled with the criticism, she told me. As international adoptions have declined, parallel cultural changes have led to a reduction in American babies who would, in an earlier era, likely have been relinquished.
The American birth rate is at an all-time low. T eens , who are less likely to be ready to raise children than older women, are getting pregnant at the lowest rates ever. Single motherhood is less taboo, so although unwed women, who were once more likely than married people to place their children for adoption, are now having 40 percent of all babies, for the most part they are choosing to raise their children themselves.
In one study , only 9 percent of the women who were denied an abortion chose adoption. Even as single parenthood has become less stigmatized, placing a child for adoption has become more so.
And in addition to rethinking international adoption, some groups are also reconsidering whether single, poor American women should be encouraged to place their babies for adoption. Bethany is now trying to help struggling American birth mothers parent their own children, as growing numbers of single women aim to do. In , the group created a special program for drug-addicted birth moms intended to help them stay with their babies.
A process that involves people surrendering their biological children is bound to be fraught. Still, a single, pregnant woman is likely to have a different experience with an organization like Bethany today than she would have decades ago. American Adoptions does not allow gender specificity in adoption.
Any family who wishes to be gender-specific in their adoption should contact us at ADOPTION and ask about the possibility of an exception waiver before taking any other steps toward adoption with our agency. Any families who do receive an exception to be gender-specific may also incur an additional fee, which helps cover the additional advertising costs of such a request. Did you know that American Adoptions offers a free bi-weekly e-newsletter?
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