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When Jessie Hawkins' used daughter told her she possessed another mom back Ethiopia, Jessie didn't, initially, know what to believe. She'd required her adoption to be great storyline about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family group led by God to look at. Instead, she believed like she'd done something amiss.Adoption is definitely enmeshed in the politics of reproductive protection under the law, pitched as a "win-win" bargain in the never-ending abortion question. But as Kathryn Joyce makes clear in The Child Catchers, adoption has currently become even more entangled in the conservative Christian agenda.To tens of millions of evangelicals, adoption is a fresh front in the culture wars: a test of "pro-life" bona fides, a means for born again Christians to reinvent compassionate conservatism on the global level, and a means to match the "Great Commission" mandate to evangelize the countries. Influential leaders fervently promote a fresh "orphan theology," urging fans to look at en masse, with little thought for the family members these "orphans" may already have. Conventional evangelicals control much of that industry through an infrastructure of adoption organizations, ministries, political lobbying groupings, and publicly-supported "crisis being pregnant centers," which influence women not simply to "choose life," but to choose adoption. International, conservative Christians preside more than a spiraling boom-bust adoption market in countries where people are poor and rules weakened, and where significant adoption fees provide tons of motivation to increase the "supply" of adoptable children, recruiting "orphans" from intact but prone family members.The Child Catchers is a shocking exposé of the particular adoption industry is becoming and how it got there, advised through profound investigative reporting and the heartbreaking testimonies of individuals who became collateral damage in market driven by revenue and, now, pulpit order.Anyone who looks for to look at - of whatever beliefs or no beliefs, and however well-meaning - is afflicted by the evangelical adoption movements, if they know it or not. The movements has shaped the way we think about adoption, the terminology we use to go over it, the places we seek to look at from, and the insurance policies and laws and regulations that govern the process. In The Child Catchers, Kathryn Joyce reveals with great sensitivity and empathy why, if we truly look after children, we need to see more plainly.
