{"id":7579,"date":"2014-10-26T09:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=7579"},"modified":"2014-10-26T09:17:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T14:17:16","slug":"adoption-and-liberalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=7579","title":{"rendered":"Adoption and Liberalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Americans share a common understanding of what adoption is, a common belief in the \u201cfacts\u201d of adoption, a common view of themselves and the \u201cother\u201d in relation to adoption, and a common undifferentiated belief in adoption as the best solution to many child welfare problems. This American understanding reflects a naive blindness to the roles of self-interest in adoption, a disinterest in the power, privilege, gender inequality, class and wealth differentials that drive and have always driven adoption, as we understand it, and a common ignorance of the history of the institution of adoption.<\/em>David Smolin and Desiree Smolin<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/gazillionvoices.com\/cover-stories-adoption-and-liberalism\/#.VEwiafnF-So\">Adoption and Liberalism<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/gazillionvoices.com\/liberal-hypocrisy-in-adoption\/#.VErAq_nF-So\">Liberal Hypocrisy in Adoption<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans share a common understanding of what adoption is, a common belief in the \u201cfacts\u201d of adoption, a common view of themselves and the \u201cother\u201d in relation to adoption, and a common undifferentiated belief in adoption as the best solution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=7579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}