“Ask yourself why someone like Angelina Jolie goes to Ethiopia to adopt instead of LA or Chicago.”
I wonder what would happen if we allowed young mothers to basically adopt out their babies to couples for a fee. The negotiated with the higher bidder winning.
I know this sounds terrible in the one sense, but I know of women who do NOT wish to have children, and would abort in a heart beat. Others, many in fact, would have the baby and raise the child in the unwed single parent household or with the grandparents raising them.
Why not compensate the young mother who wishes to not abort the child to adopt the child to a loving family?
Again, I point out that Americans spend tens of thousands of dollars to adopt a baby from Russia, Indonesia etc...
Unfortunately being a baby mama is a way of life for many in the American underclass. A lifetime ticket to benefits, even citizenship. A tangible sign some man thought they were attractive enough to mate with. Aa hopeful continuing link to that man... A cuddly object to love and be loved by. Until the child grows into an angry adolescent.
Having adopted in Russia and researched elsewhere, I did NOT note this “needy” or self serving attitude in the birth mothers of Russia Kazakhtstan etc who gave up (or lost by govt action) their children. Hopeless poverty (affecting the entire extended family), alcoholism, and drugs generally accounted for many of the children abandoned there. Also many children up for adoptiuon there are deemed damaged goods, or “imperfect” in any way (racially, physically, mentally, social/ethnic class) and not wanted by a society that has no respect, tolerance or facilties for them.
Americans faced with unwanted pregnancies have so many more options, for better or worse. Compensating them for giving up their children to adoption won’t appeal, imho.
You would end up with people getting pregnant just to make 5-10k. i.e., it wouldn’t resolve the attitude that the child is simply a means of profit or loss, a mere inhuman object.