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Old 04-01-2009, 07:13 AM  
Pleasurepays
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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few things are more disturbing and disgusting, yet mask themselves as being noble and good than the adoption industry. I had only had a small taste of this living in Russia and watching a whole "adoption tourism" industry spring up and seeing locals charge 20,000-50,000 in "fees" which was quite steep considering average salaries were merely in the hundreds and also considering that in the US or wherever, there is also an agency charging their fees on top of this.

I created an adoption hoax site where the premise was that you could adopt foreign kids for their "non-essential organs" - i.e. maybe you need an inner ear, eye transplant, bone marrow, liver lobe, intestines etc. The reaction was intense. The reaction from adoption agencies was completely unexpected. All of them "concerned" at how it might affect their business and many voiced the concerned that it could be taken for being real. My reply was "well... if there is any real chance that it could be thought to be real... and you, so nobly stand up and fight for children and to make their lives better.. then maybe the world SHOULD be talking about this thing". Everyone was concerned about the bottom line.

Then i started looking at adoption sites... search by race, religion, sex and other physical attributes. You would think it was used car sales.

Its all very disturbing and peoples intentions on all sides are definitely not noble at all. the ugly truth of it all is that its a massive industry that makes serious money for all those who "broker" the transactions.
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