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Saks’ Newborn Nursery® Infant Adoption - What
Is the Message to Little Girls?
Teaching children that babies are more special if they are purchased
by you rather than born to you should ensure the adoption industry
a market for babies well into the future. When there is a large market
for babies and few real orphans, exploitation of naïve young
mothers and poor families occurs.
Marion, IA (PRWEB) September 14, 2004 -- The Middleton Doll Company
recently announced that its Lee Middleton Original Dolls Subsidiary
will expand its Newborn Nursery® Adoption Centers into five additional
Saks Department Store Group locations. The new centers will be located
in Parisian stores in Rochester Hills, Mich. and Alpharetta, Ga.,
a McRae's store in Sanford, Fla., a Carson Pirie Scott store in Lombard,
Ill., and the Boston Store at the Mayfair Shopping Center in Milwaukee.
The Newborn Nursery® with all the dolls lined up must look enticing
to little girls. The babies are described as “anxiously awaiting a
loving home”. A prospective adopter is encouraged to choose a doll
that looks like her and to reject a doll that does not meet her idea
of perfection. She fills out an application which is quickly approved.
Then the prospective adopter puts on a hospital gown and the store
assistant, dressed as a nurse, gives the baby a “check-up”.
Will the adopter be “rescuing” a baby from a bad situation or a drug-addicted
mother? Not likely. According to the announcement these are healthy
babies: “Once the ‘nurse’ determines the baby doll is healthy enough
to be ‘adopted,’ the parent-to-be is able to hold her new baby doll
for the first time.”
After the prospective adopter is given baby-care instruction, the
doll is placed in her arms and a photo taken. The adopter receives
a falsified birth certificate on which is written the baby name she
chose, a falsified date of birth (the date of adoption may be used),
and her own name as having given birth. Later, when the adoptee becomes
suspicious and questions it, the photo of the adopter wearing the
hospital gown while holding the baby will give credence to the lie
that it was the adopter who gave birth. Before the transaction is
complete, the adopter may be encouraged by the nurse’s words “You
are such a good mommy”.
Newborn Nursery® dolls sell for only $99.99, far less than a
real infant who may be “purchased” from a lawyer or “adoption professional”
for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars in United States.
Absent from the Newborn Nursery® are the babies’ mothers and
the original birth certificates. Will any little girl think about
this? Perhaps the mention of “awaiting a loving home” provides the
desired inference - it must be that the mothers of these healthy-looking
adorable babies didn’t even want them.
In reality, all infants who are adopted must be born. They have a
true birth certificate which includes their own name lovingly chosen
by their real mother if she was permitted to do so.
By the time their babies are born, their mothers have usually spent
between six and eight months worrying about and caring for their them.
During pregnancy, they take the dreaded large vitamin pills in spite
of morning sickness, drink milk, eat and exercise as directed by their
doctors. They delight in the feel of little feet and arms poking out
of their bellies as their baby changes positions. They sing and talk
to their babies. They often spend hours creating hand-made gifts or
selecting something special for their baby. In the later months, their
backs may fuse up at night from the strain produced by the weight
of their baby, making it hard to roll out of bed. Labor may be a long
and arduous experience and birth may bring with it great joy over
a beautiful healthy son or daughter. Despite all this, it’s unlikely
the natural mother will be told “You are such a good mommy.” or even
have it acknowledged that she is her child’s mother at all. Instead
she will be called a “birth thing”.
Mothers anguish over the loss of their child in advance of birth
and forever afterwards. Having been surrounded by all the advertising
for adoption and hearing nothing of the reality, parents or grandparents
may believe adoption is truly best for their child/grandchild. Adoption
lawyers cannot be expected to be honest with the natural family -
they rarely consider anything but their own monetary interests. And
it’s unlikely an “adoption professional” will provide honest information
concerning the known life-long effects of separation on a newborn
baby and her mother, either. It’s unlikely they will offer any sort
of real help or encouragement to a mother or father to keep their
child. After all, they don’t achieve “angel” status or get raises
or bonuses for helping real moms - they get these things for “finding”
healthy infants.
Over time, the adoption industry has become increasingly clever in
shaping public opinion in order to obtain babies and build a market
for them. Getting little girls involved through play-acted infant
adoption via the Newborn Nursery® may be the best method yet.
Teaching very young children to deny an adoptee’s identity and heritage
will help to ensure adoptee human and civil rights violations continue.
Denying any acknowledgement of the source of the “adoptable” babies
encourages the continued exploitation of nice, naïve young mothers
and poor families. Teaching children that babies are more special
if purchased by you rather than born to you should ensure the adoption
industry a market for babies well into the future.
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The status of women in a society may be partially
determined by the percentage of women who have their babies adopted-out.
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