[Err_Eek]

> One observation I'll make is that although adoption is considered a noble act in the US, many other countries consider it be throwing your baby away to be exploited.

Adoption is considered a noble act in Romania

[tdrgabi]

But we also have a history of adoptions where the kids ended up exploited.

After the scandals, international adoptions were banned until recently.

[redis_mlc]

So why were thousands of children sent to state orphanages, if adoption was normal?

There's some kind of disconnect here where it seems like Romanians are brigading on my post without actually reading the article.

[tsimionescu]

Something being a noble act does not mean that it is normal, in the sense that it is a common occurence. In fact, the opposite is usually true.

There were just so many abandoned children that there were too few people willing to adopt them. Most people prefer to conceive their own children rather than adopting. Eve of those that want to adopt, they will often conceive a child before feeling ready to go through the adoption process, and few people can afford more than one child.

[jacquesm]

Different times. GP used present tense.