Adoptions: A Web of Trauma and Its Repercussions
This week we discuss Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Christian adoption agencies, the "great replacement theory", and forced sterilization of women from Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous communities with a focus on how it all relates to the trauma in the adoption process for both birth mothers and children.
SOURCES
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/bethesda-home-girls-stolen-babies/
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/
https://www.newsweek.com/how-this-legal-woman-exposes-child-rehoming-ad-adoption-agency-viral-video-1667464
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/adopted-children-rehome-ads-tiktok/
https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-sterilization-policies-us-targeted-minorities-and-those-disabilities-and-lasted-21st
https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Autonomy-Revoked--The-Forced-Sterilization-of-Women-of-Color-in-20th-Century-America.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-pr...
This week we discuss Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Christian adoption agencies, the "great replacement theory", and forced sterilization of women from Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous communities with a focus on how it all relates to the trauma in the adoption process for both birth mothers and children.
SOURCES
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/bethesda-home-girls-stolen-babies/
https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/
https://www.newsweek.com/how-this-legal-woman-exposes-child-rehoming-ad-adoption-agency-viral-video-1667464
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/adopted-children-rehome-ads-tiktok/
https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-sterilization-policies-us-targeted-minorities-and-those-disabilities-and-lasted-21st
https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Autonomy-Revoked--The-Forced-Sterilization-of-Women-of-Color-in-20th-Century-America.pdf
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/6030/ice-detainees-alleged-hysterectomies-recall-a-long-history-of-forced-sterilizations
https://www.salon.com/2009/09/02/adoption_rings/
https://www.newsweek.com/wokeness-has-come-adoption-its-children-who-will-suffer-opinion-1587611
https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf
https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf