richardhutnik said:
I read your post. I was trying not to take it as what I thought i read it as. If you outlaw abortion then there wouldn't be a problem with unwanted births, because almost all children put up for adoption would find homes to take care of the kids. Currently there are over 130,000 children waiting to be adopted today: http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-children-remain-unadopted-in-america Add over 30,000 more a year due to forced pregnancy due to rape and how much do you think it would go up? I mention GOP policy, because they are the one pushing views seen here by some, that the government isn't supposed to do anything to address the issue. |
Probably not that much.
The children who aren't adopted are children taken away from their parents at an older age. There is a huge shortage of newborns.
Brian H. Bix, Perfectionist Policies in Family Law, 2007 U. ILL. L. REV. 1055, 1061 (2007)
("[G]iven the current supply and demand for children for adoption, there is
every reason to believe that a baby given up immediately after birth would have no trouble
finding a loving home.").
The only issue really would be that a number of minority advocacy groups tend to fight adoptions of non-white children to white parents, even if that means they will be stuck in foster care. )Of course said groups also tend to see abortion as a "stealth genocide of minorities.")
In general, most perspective adopted parents don't care about race but they DO care about age. Wanting the "Full childraising expierence" and not wanting a child who doesn't see them as their "first" parents.
