Pro-Adoption Viewpoints:

Corporate Funding of Adoption is Good for Families

Posted By: Adopt Mom
Date Posted: 12/12/2001

Help Kids Get Adopted. Use of this card helps build families through adoption. A percentage of all sales goes to the Gladney Center For Adoption. We were able to adopt our child with their help. This card helps build families.

Anti-Adoption Viewpoints:

Corporate Funding of Adoption Destroys Families

Posted By: Faith
Date Posted: 02/07/2003

Do you really want to donate money to this organization? Potential Gladney Fund cardholders should know where their money is going. I have worked with many 'beneficiaries' of the Gladney Center's help and know for a fact that countless young mothers whom the Gladney Center has counseled over the years were denied the opportunity to make informed decisions. An uninformed decision is no decision at all. Today, prospective contributors to Gladney's coffers can make informed decisions about supporting this notorious adoption agency.

Gladney's board of directors founded the National Council for Adoption, a Washington lobby group that has worked for decades now to sell the American public and legislators on the alleged (but unproved) benefits of unnecessarily separating babies from their loving mothers. The NCFA, Gladney's lobbying arm, was the recent recipient of a 6.8 million dollar grant from the Bush administration, which promotes wholesale family separation by adoption as a positive goal, in direct contradiction to published standards of ethical child welfare and adoption practice that list family preservation as a top priority and permanent family separation by adoption is a desperate last resort, to be turned to only after humane family preservation efforts fail. The Gladney Center does not need more funding to inflict further damage on innocent people.

If the Gladney Center is hurting financially, that is because its 'services' to young single mothers are no longer required and no longer in demand (at least not by expectant mothers). Fewer than two percent of American women of childbearing age choose to relinquish their babies to adoption, for good reason. Gladney has already exploited untold numbers of women and children, and even dares to solicit contributions from them and their families to further its destructive goals. At least one member of its board of directors has admitted that adoption is a business, and has brazenly referred to babies as 'inventory.' If people prefer to finance coercive pregnancy counseling tactics, and to support the cruel and unnecessary separation of babies from their natural mothers, and to underwrite America's archaic, destructive adoption secrecy laws, they are free to donate to Gladney's cause. However, they should then be willing to accept responsibility for promoting unethical adoption practices that most advanced countries have outlawed.

If you believe that wealthy people and organizations need money more than poor families do, then by all means, give them yours. However, if you are an average citizen, who has compassion for young, poor and vulnerable people, please donate your money to truly humanitarian organizations, such as 'SCARE' or 'Habitat for Humanity,' whose help is not conditional upon taking people's firstborn children. If you must get a credit card, please consider one that donates a percentage to a worthwhile cause, or at least offers a 2% refund on accrued charges.

Thank you, CardOffers.com, for supporting informed decision-making.

Most Attractive Feature:
Proves that greed knows no bounds
Least Attractive Feature:
Profits go to trafficking in children

Posted By: Lori C[arangelo]
Date Posted: 02/06/2003

Merchandising America's Children
>From my having worked with over 14,000 adoptees, I see the Gladney Fund Platinum Card as " The wave of the future"--Use the Card to buy a baby through Gladney's baby trafficking network being investigated by the United Nations Special Rapporteur. You have 30 days before the first installment is due and 60 days in which to dispute the charge if your adoptee proves to be "defective" or develops emotional problems from his/her adoption; get a chargeback as a "consumer matter" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. After all, adoptees are already just a commodity in the multi-billion dollar adoption industry. See http://amfor.net, which includes comments from adoption affected persons nationwide and in several countries, and supporting pages such as Adopters Against Adoption, Statistics of Adoption, Adopted Prisoners etc.

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