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Tony Corsentino
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Cis, he/him. Librarian, adoptee, bicyclist, Southerner in New England, former philosophy professor. Trans rights are human rights.🏳️‍⚧️ ✍️ www.notalegalrecord.net
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It takes great naïveté to believe that the sociolegal framework we have for adoption, pioneered and promoted as it was less than 100 years ago by kidnappers and traffickers whose goal was to supply wealthy childless couples with babies, has somehow remedied its inherent structural wrongs. 🥚

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I am grateful to sociologist Gretchen Sisson for her research, for her new book _Relinquished_, and for her willingness to say things that bring a storm of outrage upon the adoptees and birthparents who say them. 🥚

Mother Jones For people who can't have their own kids, do you think that adoption is an ethical practice to turn to given how adoption works in America today? [Long pause] I don't think so. It's hard for me to say that. There are a lot of ethical people who participate in adoption and are really committed to the well-being of their children and to preserving relationships with their child's birth parents. I believe that the system is unethical, given the extent to which it is premised on inequity and the extent to which it's often predatory. I believe that you can have ethical players that participate in it and do the best they can, but I don't think that that makes the way that we practice this morally correct.
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Tony Corsentino
@notalegalrecord.net
Cis, he/him. Librarian, adoptee, bicyclist, Southerner in New England, former philosophy professor. Trans rights are human rights.🏳️‍⚧️ ✍️ www.notalegalrecord.net
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