Life, Liberty and Property

A commenter writes:

Have you read any blogs by adult adoptees and/or mothers who’ve relinquished children for adoption?

Because transferring parental rights carries a whole lot more fall-out than you suggest in this post.

I will admit up-front that I have not read any such blogs. However, I absolutely agree with this comment. For a number of mothers there is a definite psychological reaction that occurs when giving up a child.

This is actually one of the factors that would likely keep this baby-market from turning into an uncontrollable baby-boom. Some women would just not be able to part with their child.

Others would, and among them, many would have some psychological effect. This however would likely be no-worse than the psychological fall-out that many women experience after having an abortion.

In fact, as was sort-of noted in my post “the Globalization of Babymaking,” some or all of that effect could be abated by pre-natal counseling, which would certainly be in the adoptive-parent’s interest to provide. In that post, I was discussing surrogate mothers in India:

 

The gynecologist who has been tending to numerous “clients” at her hospital in Anand told the Press Trust of India, “women preferring to become surrogate mothers are briefed right from the start that they will have to hand over the child to the childless couple soon after the delivery and are repeatedly told this whenever examined during pregnancy.”

“This is for the benefit of surrogate women so that they do not nurse any attachment for the child after the birth.” she said.

 

So far, the effectiveness of that seems to be working, as the gynecologist who runs the surrogacy program has no shortage of women lining up at her door.

Of course, I am not a psychologist. If any of you are, I’d love you to comment.