Date: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 08:46 am (UTC)
From the descriptions both in that post and in a lot of the comments, the problem seems to be that the "practical assistance and emotional support" don't seem to be there for birth mothers in many cases - too often the focus seems to be on the needs of the child and the adoptive parents, to the almost exclusion of the needs of the birth mother.

I dunno, it's not really a knee-jerk to be deeply and thoughtfully worried about the possibility that the facilities for these kinds of decisions predominately respond to the birth mother's situation through a moral/religious rhetoric which at best diminishes her right to emotional distress, and at worst actively blames her. I'm thinking particularly of the Catholic ones, from anecdotes in the comments.
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