Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry

Mirah Riben and Bernadette Wright argue that mothers’ rights are women’s rights. Women's rights mean recognizing mothers’ rights to parent their own children.

Reverse Robinhoodism: Pitting Poor Against Affluent Women in the Adoption Industry

By Mirah Riben and Bernadette Wright, PhD

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2009 CONDUCIVE

“It is the poor states that produce the children and the rich that consume them. In this process, poor parents are left behind, serving only as the initial fabricators of other people’s children.” Debora L. Spar, Harvard School of Business (2006)