It troubles my conscious to think about adoption as a market, because when I think of market, I think of “ a group of buyers and sellers of a particular good or services” (Mankiw, 18) and, when I think of the definition of adoption-“to take a legal responsibility as a parent of a child that’s not one’s biological child” (Brenan, 12)-something doesn’t add up in my senses. On one hand, we’re dealing with goods, services and on the other hand, we’re dealing with actual human beings, almost as selling or treating them as a product rather than living being. Though I understand that adoption “services” (in quotation to differentiate them from other services) are there to provide people with what they need, either the child who’s in need of a home
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A way in which the government can help this market work better is by simplifying the regulations of this market. While we agree that these regulations, set in place by both the Chinese and the U.S government, are necessary to protect the welfare of these children, we also see a need for change to occur. Without simplifying the information or creating a more direct route for international adoption, there won’t be any changes in the market. We’ll always have suitable families distancing themselves from the adoption market, because of over regulations, and that will cause more children to lack being cared for. In addition to that, other “ethical issues such as black market will continue to be on the rise” (Acosta, 12). Although the two government tried to “prevent the black market for babies by implementing many new rules and regulations such as the Hague Convention” (Hague Adoption Process, 22), to enforce more order and morality on the market, and to ensure that all of the babies being adopted were obtained with the consent of the parent, black market is still happening. People looking to make money off of human beings continue to “find shortcuts to provide adopting parents with a child since the market is currently too regulated for these parents to adopt a child” (Watson, 87). And as Anne Babb stated “....when money is central to human services as it is in adoption, money not only drives the process, but it also shapes the results” (Groening,
A way in which the government can help this market work better is by simplifying the regulations of this market. While we agree that these regulations, set in place by both the Chinese and the U.S government, are necessary to protect the welfare of these children, we also see a need for change to occur. Without simplifying the information or creating a more direct route for international adoption, there won’t be any changes in the market. We’ll always have suitable families distancing themselves from the adoption market, because of over regulations, and that will cause more children to lack being cared for. In addition to that, other “ethical issues such as black market will continue to be on the rise” (Acosta, 12). Although the two government tried to “prevent the black market for babies by implementing many new rules and regulations such as the Hague Convention” (Hague Adoption Process, 22), to enforce more order and morality on the market, and to ensure that all of the babies being adopted were obtained with the consent of the parent, black market is still happening. People looking to make money off of human beings continue to “find shortcuts to provide adopting parents with a child since the market is currently too regulated for these parents to adopt a child” (Watson, 87). And as Anne Babb stated “....when money is central to human services as it is in adoption, money not only drives the process, but it also shapes the results” (Groening,