{"title":"The Adoption “Alternative”","authors":"S. Haslanger","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0021","url":null,"abstract":"The Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization majority opinion suggests that “safe-haven” laws enable families to avoid the bad consequences an unwanted pregnancy. However, adoption is not always a good option, and for many—especially poor women—there are no good options. In particular, the history of child protective services in the United States gives Black and Brown women reason to avoid relinquishing their children to the state.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126604390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Debt We Owe","authors":"Kori A. Graves","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0020","url":null,"abstract":"African Americans’ efforts to protect reproductive rights and pursue reproductive justice have taken many forms. This article uses examples from the personal experiences and professional activities of Dr. Dorothy L. Brown—physician, adoptive mother, Tennessee state legislator, and abortion activist—to demonstrate why adoption was never a simple substitute for abortion for African Americans who had to utilize abortion, adoption, foster care, and child welfare institutions to address the needs of vulnerable women and children.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121598218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Abortion Illegal Does Not Lead to More Adoptions","authors":"Laura K. Briggs","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0014","url":null,"abstract":": It is not at all clear that making abortion illegal leads to fewer abortions, and still less that it results in more people relinquishing infants for adoption, despite the hopes of anti-abortionists.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124643141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rev. of Taking Children: A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs","authors":"John McLeod","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128424115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Would You Rather Have Been Aborted?”: Why Adoption Is Not the Solution to Abortion","authors":"Lisa Sjöblom, Eleana J. Kim","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0017","url":null,"abstract":"This conversation between artist Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom and anthropologist and adoption scholar Eleana J. Kim discusses the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in the context of transnational, transracial adoption","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"551 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133503122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Both Grieved: Adoption, Abortion, and the Callous Indifference of Dobbs","authors":"Susan Bordo","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0013","url":null,"abstract":"My experience as an adoptive mother who got to know my daughter’s birthmother during her pregnancy demonstrates the inhumanity of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which turns pregnancy into a fetal delivery system rather than a profoundly transformative experience. This de-humanization undergirds both the Alito/Barrett attitude toward abortion and adoption and the babies who are imagined as refilling diminished stock for the market in babies.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125129213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adoption, Abortion, and Ambivalence: Processing the Dobbs Decision","authors":"Cynthia Callahan","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the consequences of the Dobbs decision through the author’s ambivalence about the concept of choice. It weighs conflicting uses of choice to conclude that eschewing rights in favor of choice not only undermined abortion rights, it perpetuated inequities among American families and, finally, sustained simplistic perceptions of adoption that damage the project of adoption studies.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123030810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Open Adoption Alternative, A Birthmother’s Perspective","authors":"Amy Seek","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This personal essay speaks to the life-altering impact of adoption, even in the case of a carefully planned and successful open adoption. The essay describes the experience of a birthmother over the course of twenty-two years in an open adoption.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125518023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"You Can Always Adopt","authors":"Janice Schroeder","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Stories about reproductive choice frame us as competitors in a struggle for access to scarce resources. The repeal of Roe v. Wade is not a gain for prospective adoptive parents. The loss of reproductive freedom for one person is not a win for someone else.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126634375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Originalism: Erasing Women from the Body Politic","authors":"Malinda L. Seymore","doi":"10.1353/ado.0.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.0.0010","url":null,"abstract":"In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, the Court relied on originalism to excise women from the Constitution. Originalism is purposefully backward-looking. With cherry-picked history, the Court created a future that looks to the past: a past where unwed pregnancy is shameful and can be redeemed only by secret adoption. Yet the case has revealed originalism as a flawed method, harmed the legitimacy of the Court, and energized those supporting abortion rights.","PeriodicalId":140707,"journal":{"name":"Adoption & Culture","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133763289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}