EVIDENCE OF SYSTEMIC VIOLATION OF SINGLE PARENTS RIGHTS

Part 3
Profit and Punishment: WHY They Coerced Us to Surrender Our Babies

Market Demand:

"Because there are many more married couples wanting to adopt newborn white babies than there are babies, it may almost be said that they rather than out of wedlock babies are a social problem. (Sometimes social workers in adoption agencies have facetiously suggested setting up social provisions for more 'babybreeding'.)" SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS, National Association of Social Workers, (Out-of-print) copyright 1964

"Lawyer Karen Lane admits that private adoption can smack of 'buying babies'." Born Losers, p.151, by L. Carlangelo

"Vincent also emphasized that his study was made in a location where, and at a time when, a demand for white adoptable infants existed. He suggested that: 'If this demand were absent, the unwed mothers who now score high in personality scales measuring, e.g., socialization, maturity, and responsibility, might very possibly be more inclined to assume the responsibility of rearing their illegitimate children." THE UNMARRIED MOTHER - HER DECISION REGARDING ADOPTION, Barbara Hansen Costigan, 1964 Dissertation, University of Southern California

". . . babies born out of wedlock [are] no longer considered a social problem . . . white, physically healthy babies are considered by many to be a social boon . . . " (i.e. a valuable commodity..). - Social Work and Social Problems (1964), National Association of Social Workers. {quote courtesy of Karen WB}

Punishment:

". . . society has seemed more interested in punishing the unwed mother and her illegitimate child than in understanding the social, economic, and psychological forces which have placed them in a deviant social position." The Unwed Mother,  edited by Robert W. Roberts, (Harper & Row) copyright 1966

"Unwed mothers should be punished and they should be punished by taking their children away." - Dr. Marion Hilliard of Women's College Hospital, Daily Telegraph, (Toronto, November 1956)

"If the demand for adoptable babies continues to exceed the supply then it is quite possible that, in the near future, unwed mothers will be "punished" by having their children taken from them right after birth. A policy like this would not be executed -- nor labeled explicitly -- as "punishment." Rather, it would be implemented through such pressures and labels as "scientific findings," "the best interests of the child," "rehabilitation of the unwed mother," and "the stability of the family and society." Unmarried Mothers, by Clark Vincent (1961)

Trimming the Welfare Rolls:

"To the Province generally the great advantage and economy of the Adoption Act can be realized when it is stated that many of the children before their adoption were costing five and six dollars a week for maintenance." - 35th Report of the Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Children (Ontario, 1928)