Adoption is not a Family Planning Tool

Critical Adoption TheoryReproductive Justice
Written By Joanne Bagshaw

Early stressors impact adoptees' mental health, posing long-term well-being risks.

  • Adoption as family planning commodifies children, fulfilling parents’ needs over children’s.

  • Adoption should not replace reproductive healthcare or undermine birth parents’ rights.

  • Adoption is not an acceptable substitute for accessible abortion, contraception, or social supports.

Read more on Joanne’s Psychology Today blog, here. To learn more about Critical Adoption Studies or Reproductive Justice, check out our Reading Room for Adoptees.

Joanne Bagshaw

Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC, is the author of The Feminist Handbook and an AASECT-certified sex therapist with a group practice in Maryland. She writes the popular feminist blog, The Third Wave, for Psychology Today. An award-winning professor in psychology and women's studies, Joanne has recently retired from Montgomery College. She’s a same-race domestic adoptee from The Baby Scoop Era.

https://www.joannebagshaw.com/
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