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Originally Posted by teranga
MamaS,
There are ethical and unethical rich people. There are ethical and unethical people with less money. Your statement to me implies you are saying that people with money tend to do things like what this one person apparently did (illegally). I also think there may be more to that situation than meets the eye. There is a lot more involved with a child becoming available for adoption than a doctor striking a deal with a b-mother. Even assuming that was the case, there are illegal and immoral situations with those w/o money as well, from time to time. There are cases of people who sell their babies to a dealer for drug money too...neither of these scenarios is typical. I wouldn't infer that people without money tend to buy babies on the street just because it has happened any more than people with money buy babies (or some variation thereof) in a hospital on a regular basis.
I would like to point out there are many people with a lot of money on these forums. I don't think we'd feel comfortable about others generalizing by race, or by gender. And I don't like the generalizing by financial well being.
I do agree that there may be more legal outlets (like signing on with multiple agencies) for those with money, but it's not illegal or immoral. And for those who adopted internationally, there is no benefit at all to having a lot of money (excluding, perhaps, the Madonna fiasco).
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Good post Teranga... generalizing never adds to any conversation. And no matter what the specifics of a situation, we most often never know the whole story, no matter how much we'd like to believe that we do. It may be true but I doubt it is typical, both in that someone simply made this arrangement or that the expecting mothers would be party to it as well.