Adoption - A Crime The following is extracted from a 2011 article written by Daniel Ibn Zayd, an adopted Lebanese and published in Dissident Voice, an American internet newsletter. This summary focuses on adoption’s relevance to today’s Australia. I see the piece as supporting the introduction of stewardship as a concept and a strong case for the total abolition of adoption. William Hammersely, 2014 “Adoption is, in and of itself, a violence based in inequality. It is candy-coated, marketed, and packaged to seemingly concern families and children, but it is an economically and politically incentivised crime. It stems culturally and historically from the “peculiar institution” of Anglo-Saxon indentured servitude and not family creation. It is not universal and is not considered valid by most communal cultures. It is a treating of symptoms and not of disease. It is a negation of families and an annihilation of communities not imbued with any notion of humanity due to the adoptive culture’s inscribed bias concerning race, class, and human relevancy. “To change adoption requires changing the system that spawned it. It is a natural next step for adoptees to eventually replace it with something much more socially conscious, holistic, and humane. This will not be accomplished … by conspiring with those who profit from it. “Such change instead requires among other things … a focus on family as an organic unit of functional society and not of consumptive economy; an examination of ethnic and cultural resistance within the trafficked experience; a prioritisation of the communal over the individual; a focus on shared purpose over personal identity. “Nearly fifty years after my birth, adoption is still fulfilling this fundamental role as a primary weapon of humanitarian imperialism, tactically erasing histories and cultures, breaking up families and communities, extracting wealth from the trafficking of human beings, and following up on but also paving the way for further repackaged and rebranded economic and political exploitation. The time has thus come to structurally, culturally, economically, legally, and politically dismantle adoption. As expressed and expanded upon here, anti-adoption is the new abolition, similarly demanding an equivalent activism from all concerned … we may, in due turn, help restructure and revolutionize our very world. To read the full text go to: dissidentvoice.org/2012/08/the-new-abolition-ending-adoption-in-our-time/ The New Abolition: Ending Adoption in Our Time | Dissident Voice In no way should my color be regarded as a flaw. From the moment the Negro accepts the separation imposed by the European he has no further respite,... DISSIDENTVOICE.ORG
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