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.
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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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