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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Replying to @Nymphomachy @RavenclawConsp
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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Family annihilation case in California Went viral because one of the children had been Internet famous for the parents taking him to BLM protests
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Replying to @arthur_affect @QberryShortcake and
The most obvious gatekeeping failure in the aftermath was the income issue They got into the system when both spouses were employed only for one of them to drop out of the workforce to become a SAHM after their first adoption The state just kept on letting them add more kids
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That's another source of pressure - they place a very high priority on keeping sibling groups together if possible A household who are not only willing but eager to adopt multiple older children gets a lot of leeway
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Replying to @arthur_affect @QberryShortcake and
Anyway in the investigation after the murder-suicide they found out the family had more than 50% of their income coming from the kids' support payments They were in serious debt and running out of options when they snapped
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