In the post Moral Adoption Questions, I started tackling the issues of adoption, poverty, money and if adoptive parents’ money would be better served going to a birth family to help it stay together than towards having a child adopted internationally.

Without repeating everything from the last post, in a nutshell, I said that adoption is an answer for children needing a solution right now. It is not a perfect solution, but in my opinion, it is the best possible solution for many children. Randomly giving money to families in an attempt to keep them together in my opinion is unlikely to have long-lasting... more

One of my friends that I am on an email list with recently brought up an interesting topic. My friend has six children already, two of which were adopted, and her and her husband are waiting to bring home three more, hopefully in the fairly near future.

Her concerns were regarding the children she is bringing home soon, and the fact that their birthmother is still alive. She got to travel and meet the children a few months back and also got to meet the birth mother. While the birth mother clearly loved the children, she was unable to care and provide for them because of extreme poverty. She was pleased that the children had found adoptive parents and would have a home and a life in... more