Everything You Think You Know About Adoption is a Lie

Adoption Lie #4: Love is Enough


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Adoption is not about love. Adoption is about power.

Particularly, in the midst of the holiday season, there is a heavy focus on love and gratitude, which can be loaded concepts for Adoption Survivors. In this fifth episode of Everything You Think You Know About Adoption is a lie, we confront the lie that "love is enough."

If Adoption was truly about Love, then it would use Power to strengthen and empower families to stay together. Instead, Adoption leverages Power and weaponizes Love to surveil, destabilize, coerce, and exploit families for the commodification and procurement of children to benefit and profit the privileged.

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Everything You Think You Know About Adoption is a LieBy The Empress Han

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