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A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today.
Written by the director of an adoption agency and the author of The Children Money Can Buy, The Baby Market illustrates the dramatic changes that have taken place in infant adoption over the past two decades, resulting in what feels like a wild west of adoption in which money is the might that makes right and the law is very hard to find. The book follows the true stories of women who choose adoption for their babies, some of them making this choice multiple times. There are also stories from adoptive parents who relate their experiences with scams, disappointments, emotional and financial exploitation, and the dubious "assistance" of baby brokers. The process of adopting a baby involves struggle, uncertainty, and even heartache but, for many people, somehow manages to end happily when birth and adoptive parents create connections that respectfully and even joyfully meet their need for one another. The Baby Market provides welcome encouragement and much needed information about how to avoid the numerous pitfalls inherent in adoption and offers suggestions for the reform of a corrupted adoption system.
List of contents
Glossary
Introduction
The Vagaries Of The Market PlaceOwen and Kira: An Adoptive Family StoryWhy Is Adoption So Hard?Lindy: A Birth Mother's StoryWhere Does All the Money Go?Yes, It's LegalMiddle MenJulia: A Single Adoptive Mother's StoryBirth Mothers In The Media Did Birth Mother's Change? What Will We Tell the Children? What About The Siblings? Matt and Hannah: A Foster-To-Adopt Story What About All the Kids In Foster Care? Working With The Child Welfare System Not To Scare You...But Adoption Specialists Adoption Reform Closing the Gray MarketAfterword
About the author
Anne Moody has been the co-director of an agency specializing in infant adoption for the past 24 years. She is the author of The Children Money CaBuy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption, published in 2018 by Rowman and Littlefield. She is also an adoptive parent and both her professional and personal background inform her work as an adoption specialist who advises clients on all aspects of the adoption experience. Anne is a contributor to Adoptive Families Magazine, Chicagonow.com's "Portrait of an Adoption" Series, Adoption.com's Adoption Summit, and PairTreeFamily.com.
Summary
A passionate and revealing examination of the unethical processes taking place within the U.S adoption system today
