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This is what stood out to me in the last article you linked:

'I believe (...) adoption is in most cases a parent welfare intervention, an intervention often with disregard for first parents and their plight, with disregard for welfare solutions that could help children within their families and communities.

Follow the money leads also in adoption to the truth: the truth that those who have the money define the narrative. Adoption as a privatized and commercialized social service is an American invention

The goodness-of-adoption-normalcy myth found recently its top honors when the venerable American Bar Association (...) published in April 2016: The ABA Consumer Guide to Adopting a Child.

The book is written by the owners of a Florida adoption agency, father and son Robert and Jeffrey Kasky, both adoption lawyers. The latter runs a surrogacy agency on the side.

Those who protested on the web against the title, which shows a complete disregard for adoption as a child welfare measure of last resort and coins adoption as a commercial act, received demeaning tweets.

...he ABA officially signed off on a business-driven, client-driven adoption narrative, which is by growing numbers in the adoption community seen as immoral.'

http://archive.is/a7LtY