The difference, of course, is that the government can require public schools exist, and everyone use them, and that actually is the best option for a level field. Whereas they can't require biological parents exist, or are in any way capable of being parents.
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*obviously I mean 'private schools _as_ adoption, and public schools _as_ biological parents.
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The problem in the adoption system is not the adoption...the problem is the kids who _need_ adoption and can't get it. And it's not just lack of parents...as evidenced by international adoption. It's just that certain kids are not wanted. And it's HUGE failure of the system.
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Replying to @RavenclawConsp @arthur_affect
The problem is both The adoption SYSTEM is irreparably fucked and morally unjustifiable (it's a children store. You literally buy a child from the child store.) and adoption itself is an incredibly fraught and extremely, extremely non-egalitarian concept
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You're conflating private adoption with public (foster) adoption There's a lot of gatekeeping in public adoption from the foster system but there absolutely isn't any upfront cost paid by the adoptive parents
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Yes, and post-adoption you still get support payments from the state to a lesser degree
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That's what the gatekeeping is for, they probe your finances to make sure you have enough income (and a healthy enough assets-to-debt ratio) that you don't need the support payments to meet your own financial obligations
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Replying to @arthur_affect @QberryShortcake and
It doesn't always work, see the infamous Hart case, but the intention is clear It's this tension between two goals - the gatekeeping is to keep people from working the system while the payments themselves are to keep public adoption from only being avaliable to the very rich
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By contrast private adoption, like surrogacy, unambiguously actually is only feasible for the elite (it costs as much in some cases as buying a house)
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