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⌈ Secret Post #3395 ⌋

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I used to be 100% adoption all the way, especially when I was very young and back in the 80s and 90s there actually were tens of thousands of children, if not hundreds of thousands, across the world who desperately needed homes. And for relatively cheap, because the governments of those countries didn't want to keep spending money on state orphanages.

Flash forward to today and just about everybody's at below replacement levels and those that are still allowing international adoption are profiteering off of it. The kids who are actually in need are in the foster care system, and those might get yanked away from you at any time, so while it's a noble and needed effort, it's not the same. It just isn't. At the same time, fertility treatments get cheaper and more effective every year.

Today I think I'd just have one kid of my own and foster the other with a partner. That's still a net negative in terms of the global population, and leaves more cash available to help other causes - environmental or humanist - that aren't "pay a lawyer's salary for the prestige of having my own foreign adopted child like all the rich, trendy people have."

Oh yes, I'm definitely going to be fostering. Fostering has so far broken my heart, which is exactly why I feel so strongly about doing it.

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