guswatanabe.bsky.social
Just a guy in Treaty One from Whitbourne, Newfoundland & Labrador by way of Kenora, Ontario and Fukui City, Japan.
Reading, talking and listening sets the table. Doing makes the meal.
Humanity. Empathy. Compassion. Agape Love.
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Well, @eatbemary.bsky.social,
Here’s a clip sure to warm the cockles of your heart and perhaps entice you to the north side of the 49th parallel, just down river from Fargo, ND for a Skinner’s hot dog.🌭
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Great point!!
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Instead of society constantly asking adoptees, "why are you so angry?," I like to ask society, "why aren't you angry, too?"🥚
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Yup.
Social nicety led to shame, labour abuse (if a mother couldn’t pay the fees) & the intentional starvation of babies deemed unmarketable.
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4) Of the babies sold to adoptive parents in other parts of Canada & the USA, about half (700) sold for an average price of C$5000; C$3.5 million from the sale of Depression Era & WWII babies.
C$3.5 million in 1940 is C$72,392,405.06 in 2025.
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3) Revenue from pregnant women brought in C$60 000/year for the Young’s in the mid-40s. Donations were extra revenue.
Babies were sold for btwn C$1000 - C$10 000.
There were rejected babies (dead Butter Box Babies) & babies sold within Nova Scotia for discount prices.
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2) The reality of Georgia Tann allows some Canadians to think baby selling never happened in Canada.
Lila & William Young ran The Ideal Maternity Home of Nova Scotia from 1928 until at least 1947 in East Chester, NS.
Butterbox Babies died at the Home & were buried in produce boxes.
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to me, the Rosetta Stone for understanding the origin of modern adoption—and it is very recent, little more than a century old—is Viviana Zelizer’s book PRICING THE PRICELESS CHILD, which traces the late 19C shift in the social valuation of children from economic asset to useless but precious prize.
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There are multiple reasons to end plenary adoption.
It’s child trafficking.
Even non-profits need to have a supply of babies to feed their market.
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6) Plenary adoption a practice borne of saviourism or entitlement.
Ask any parent which biological child they are willing to give up so another couple can start a family.
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5) Even before international adoptions were introduced, domestic adoptions had corruption, fake paperwork & money exchanging hands benefiting from sealed files helping to keep the secrets from prying eyes.
Adoptive parents do it for themselves.
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4) The lack of a domestic child supply has led to infertile, barren, infecund or sterile couples (and those w/ a saviour complex) to international, cross-country, inter-racial adoptions.
This has led to fraud & kidnapping as there’s money to be made.
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3) We’ll always need custodial care.
Plenary adoption is a permanent solution to a temporary situation.
A legal guardianship would accomplish the same thing. A kin guardianship would do it even better.
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2) Plenary adoption isn’t required if we’re honest about the reasons it exists.
If a birth certificate is changed, that’s about ownership.
An adoption certificate could accompany an original birth certificate to apply for any passport, marriage licence or benefits.
Why change a name at all?
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1) Yes. Three years ago, I would not have agreed.
Listening & reading have changed my mind.
And still, I never examined adoption as a system until both my parents were deceased.
They loved me & I loved them. And I wasn’t free to say what I thought (or even investigate it) until they were gone. 🥚
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I was thinking the same thing as I saw this on FB this morning.
As if interracial adoptees don’t know they’re adopted.
Or is the “fun”
about those who don’t know they’re adopted & find out years later?
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That sounds like a Charter challenge waiting to happen.
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But was anyone in the batter’s box?
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@mcuban.bsky.social, consider how gestational parents feel about having their babies taken away so some infertile couple can build a family from the devastation while baby brokers make profits out of human suffering.
The adoption & foster care system harms the very children it purports to protect.🥚
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Looking forward to reading it!
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There’s nothing quite like a personal attack on someone’s appearance to strengthen the point being made.
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It would require a peer reviewed research study to get mainstream attention.
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Accurate analysis!
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Condolences 💐
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Thanks for sharing. I don't qualify as my adoptive parents are deceased. It would be interesting to study what happens when the adoptive parents are no longer alive.
No surprise, once my dad was gone, his biological children & second wife (my mom died much earlier) stopped all communication.
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So everything done by candle light?
How romantic!!🕯️
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So many religions, even today, force births and then take the newborn of the "fallen" women to adopt them out to a more deserving, "moral" family.
Forced births, forced adoptions and theft of babies for trafficking. It's quite the trifecta.