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Ok... where to start...
As disturbing as the idea that a couple pictures make the pain of adoption insignificant is, what is much, much MORE disturbing is the subtle implication that WITHOUT placing their kids for adoption, those women wouldn't have been able to graduate college, or have a career.
It's TERRIBLE. Absolutely freakin' terrible.
And while we're on the subject...
Why is it that the 1-800-BABY commercials always feature young scared girls who look lost and too young to have a job or degree?
And in the meantime, the adoption commercials show smiling women starting their careers or graduating from school, usually with some inane slogan like, "My child and I BOTH have a great future, now." (As if they couldn't have had a great future together? As if single moms don't manage to get through school? As if having a baby automatically excludes having a good-paying job?)
Sorry, this isn't aimed at anyone...
But the whole thing SICKENS me. This type of advertising has been on my mind a LOT lately, and I find it offensive, simplistic, and quite frankly, coercive towards expectant moms considering adoption.
End of rant.
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