“People say, ‘Oh, well you can just adopt out.’ But that is not equivalent to not being pregnant and not having a baby. It’s not the answer for everybody.”
. and the Women’s Media Center thank the Fund for Constitutional Government Investigative Journalism Project for their support of this work., the case that would end 50 years of protections for abortion rights in the U.S.
“Very, very few people have adoption as their first choice,” explains Gretchen Sisson, a sociologist who studies abortion and adoption. “Adoption is effectively a failure of the social safety net. Adoption is what happens when you have rendered people choiceless and you have made abortion inaccessible and you have made parenting untenable or impossible.
. “I see such a direct connection to this way of thinking that the answer to the struggles of impoverished families, especially Black families, is for the state to take custody of children and get them adopted. … More than half of Black children will experience a child welfare investigation before they reach age 18 … more than one in 10 black children will be removed from their homes by the time they reach age 18.
A majority of children across the country who are removed from their families have been placed in foster care because of “neglect”: “Only about 17 percent of children who are … put in foster care are there because their parents were accused of sexually or physically abusing them,” Roberts explains. “The vast majority [of parents] are accused, investigated, and then have their children taken on grounds of neglect, which is defined basically as failing to meet the material needs of children.
Coney Barrett’s and Alito’s assertions that adoptions are a solution to abortion are baseless, argues Addie Wyman-Battalen, who has an academic appointment at the Boston University School of Social Work and who specializes in adoption. “It’s concerning because it’s not based in data. We have over a hundred thousand children waiting to be adopted, so it’s not working.
There simply aren’t enough homes to place the children already in state custody. “We especially don’t have homes that take pregnant or parenting teens,” reports West, who adds that there are fewer than five homes available to parenting teens in the largest city in Kentucky. “We don’t have the capacity to be able to keep a mother and her child together. And so that’s further traumatizing for that child [who’s] born into this child welfare system.
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