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.
relinquishment
-
Read more: Flipping the Script: Adoption and Reproductive Justice -
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Read more: A Birthmother Reflects: The Perpetuation of Adoption Myths A Birthmother Reflects: The Perpetuation of Adoption Myths
To insinuate that it is simple to relinquish a child for adoption diminishes the magnitude of the deep loss for the first/birth mother and the adoptee.
-
Read more: The Racialized History of Adoption Practice The Racialized History of Adoption Practice
The reimposition of the adoption logic is incompatible with reproductive dignity, safety, and justice, and inimical to human rights.
-
Read more: Safe Haven Laws and Anti-Abortion Politics Safe Haven Laws and Anti-Abortion Politics
Anti-abortion advocacy and values consistent with Catholic and other conservative religious ideologies are at the core of safe haven laws.
-
Read more: The False Choice: Adoptee Voices in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom The False Choice: Adoptee Voices in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom
Relinquishing a child for adoption is an alternative to parenting that child, not to carrying a pregnancy to term.
