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The multi-billion-dollar adoption industry is rife with misinformation, disinformation, and the exploitation and coercion of pregnant people. It is largely anti-abortion and religiously-affiliated, and it depends on structural inequities to exist. It commodifies the children of marginalized people and transfers them to mostly white, upper/middle-class families, erasing kinship ties and having lifelong and intergenerational impact.

Research on this largely invisibilized pregnant population shows:

• 82% of people who lost their infants to adoption wanted to parent their child, but lacked the financial resources to do so

• 84%  wished they would have had access to information that could have helped them parent their child

• 53% said they felt pressured to place their child for adoption

  Madden, Elissa et al. Understanding Options Counseling Experiences in Adoption: A Quantitative Analysis of First/Birth Parents and Professionals. N.p., 2016. Print.

Meanwhile, adoption agencies, attorneys, marketers, and “matchmaking services” spend up to tens of thousands of dollars per day on internet ads to find vulnerable pregnant people and helped to create a multi-billion dollar industrial complex, in collusion with the state, that coercively separates marginalized families in service of an outsized market demand for adoptable babies, and as an endgame “solution” for children forcibly removed from their families by the family policing system (so called “child welfare”), the prison industrial complex, and the immigration system.