{"id":2844,"date":"2006-10-29T19:46:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T02:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/29\/what-is-the-costs-white-baby-35000-latin-baby-10000-and-black-baby-4000\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T19:46:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T02:46:05","slug":"what-is-the-costs-white-baby-35000-latin-baby-10000-and-black-baby-4000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=2844","title":{"rendered":"What is the cost? White Baby $35,000, Latin@ Baby $10,000 and Black Baby $4,000"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should supply and demand determine the cost of adoption? Tariq<\/a> sent me this article<\/a> about a campaign by Rev. Ken Hutcherson in Washington state. Hutcherson is taking on the adoption industry. Here’s a quote:<\/p>\n

When a couple seeking to adopt a white baby is charged $35,000 and a couple seeking a black baby is charged $4,000, the image that comes to the Rev. Ken Hutcherson’s mind is of a practice that was outlawed in America nearly 150 years ago \u2014 the buying and selling of human beings.<\/p>\n

The practice, which is widespread among private adoption facilitators, of charging prospective parents different fees depending on the race or ethnicity of the child they adopt is one that Hutcherson is fighting to change from his Redmond, Wash., church. The Antioch Bible Church has established its own adoption agency, and is lobbying state legislators to change Washington’s laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t have time to write about this in detail, but this article outlines some of my concerns about the adoption industry and American’s views on children in general. Read the article, and tell me what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Should supply and demand determine the cost of adoption? Tariq sent me this article about a campaign by Rev. Ken Hutcherson in Washington state. Hutcherson is taking on the adoption industry. Here’s a quote: When a couple seeking to adopt … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,25,116,93,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues","category-economics-and-the-like","category-families-structures-divorce-etc","category-race-racism-and-related-issues","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}