Flipping the Script: Adoption and Reproductive Justice
To #FlipTheScript means to challenge staid adoption narratives. It necessitates listening to adoptees’ truths, no matter how uncomfortable.
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Read more: Adoptee Rights and Adoption Annulment Adoptee Rights and Adoption Annulment
Activists within today’s adoptee rights movement are working to establish a right to end a person’s own adoption.
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Read more: Organizing and Activism of Adopted and Displaced People Organizing and Activism of Adopted and Displaced People
It is inhumane to perpetuate and promote trauma in service of an anti-abortion agenda.
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Read more: Native Reproductive Justice: Practices and Policies from Relinquishment to Family Preservation Native Reproductive Justice: Practices and Policies from Relinquishment to Family Preservation
Native reproductive health has been weaponized for the purposes of control, robbing Native women of their self-determination.
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Read more: The Indian Child Welfare Act: Preserving Families Is in Children’s Best Interests The Indian Child Welfare Act: Preserving Families Is in Children’s Best Interests
Adoption isn’t the sole answer, but when it is the answer, ICWA protects Native children’s best interests.
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Read more: Voices of Indian Adoption Voices of Indian Adoption
It’s inhumane to place an American Indian child in the midst of white America whose cultural derision is overwhelmingly evident.
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Read more: Striving Towards Ethical Adoption Practice Striving Towards Ethical Adoption Practice
In the United States, the practices of adoption are rarely oriented towards the goals of anti-racism, child-centeredness, and reproductive justice.
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Read more: Understanding Transracial Adoption: Life-long Transformations, Not Frictionless Transactions Understanding Transracial Adoption: Life-long Transformations, Not Frictionless Transactions
Adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them.
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Read more: Institutional Racism and the Rights of Black Fathers Institutional Racism and the Rights of Black Fathers
Two closed adoptions. Two Black men who weren’t allowed to be fathers to their daughters. One system designed to shut them out.
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Read more: Adoption and the Meaning of Consent Adoption and the Meaning of Consent
In adoption, we rarely consider the constraints on autonomy that often preclude meaningful choice.
