Are adoption agencies, both state and religious who receive state and or federal funds thus required not to discriminate? Seems odd to me as they routinely age discriminate.

Intelligent people know that it is pedophelia, and not homosexuality, that is the problem.

In my experience of researching adoptions for 30+ years, though there are no follow-up studies of abuse in post adoptive families, the highest rate seems to be among single men. Matthew Mancusco who adopted Masha Allen, for instance, and used her from day one as a sex slave and put her photos on the Internet. William Peckenpaugh who did the same to a boy he adopted. And most recently Frank M. Lombard an official at Duke University who likewise sexually abused his adopted son and offered him to others for sex. Single men adopting, IMHO, should be an immediate red flag.

Peckenpaugh was associated with MAMBLA. Manscusco had been previously married and accused of abusing his own daughter. None of these facts were known prior tot he adoption and should have been.

Married heterosexual couples are more inclined to inflict other forms of physical abuse such as torture and starvation, and have murdered children they adopted, Although, earlier this month Andee Verlon Tyler, 51, and his wife, Penny Tyler, 46, along with their son, Ashton Malachi Tyler, 20, on Wednesday pleaded no contest and waived their right to a preliminary hearing in Oklahoma County District Court. The two elder Tylers face felony child abuse charges for the alleged abuse of their adopted 11-year-old Liberian daughter. Ashton Tyler is accused of sexually assaulting his adopted sister and is charged with rape by instrumentation.

I am as liberal as one can be and I fully support same sex marriage. That’s a personal choice between two adults that should not be denied. In home sales, it is illegal to discriminate. Children, however are not commodities, and the transfer of their custody via adoption is very different. Their right to the best possible home chosen by an agency overrides any alleged, non-existent “rights” of adopters which do not exist. Agencies routinely apply other criteria such as age limits which would also be tantamount to discrimination under other circumstances.

The mother, and the agency she selected to represent her and her child’s best needs is serving her and her child and thus should uphold her requests. This is no more discrimination or violation of anyone’s civil rights or equality than is the personal choice of who we chose to date, marry or father our children.

The problem is in the way the question is being presented. it reflects that adoption is not set up to serve the needs of children but to serve the paying client: those who adopt.

Mirah Riben, author
The Stork Market: America’s Multi-Billion Dollar Unregulated Adoption Industry