S2 Ep21: Adoptions: A Web of Trauma and Its Repercussions

This week we discuss Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Christian adoption agencies, the "great replacement theory", and forced sterilization of women from Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous communities with a focus on how it all relates to the trauma in the adoption process for both birth mothers and children.   SOURCES https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/bethesda-home-girls-stolen-babies/ https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/06/26/bethany-christian-services-family-separation-betsy-devos/ https://www.newsweek.com/how-this-legal-woman-exposes-child-rehoming-ad-adoption-agency-viral-video-1667464 https://www.dailydot.com/irl/adopted-children-rehome-ads-tiktok/ https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-sterilization-policies-us-targeted-minorities-and-those-disabilities-and-lasted-21st https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Autonomy-Revoked--The-Forced-Sterilization-of-Women-of-Color-in-20th-Century-America.pdf https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/unwanted-sterilization-and-eugenics-programs-in-the-united-states/ https://www.mississippifreepress.org/6030/ice-detainees-alleged-hysterectomies-recall-a-long-history-of-forced-sterilizations https://www.salon.com/2009/09/02/adoption_rings/ https://www.newsweek.com/wokeness-has-come-adoption-its-children-who-will-suffer-opinion-1587611 https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf https://immigrationforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Replacement-Theory-Explainer-1122.pdf https://ijrcenter.org/forced-sterilization/