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Title: Can I Buy a Baby, and Can I Send It Back?
Review: In her book, Jana Wolff objectifies the child and dismisses the child's mother as so much garbage. In truth, birth mothers enter into relinquishment sorrowfully and loving their children, and in doing so, they embark on a lifelong journey of pain: missing the child and loving the child and knowing they made a wrong decision in their youth. Jana Wolff's treatment of birth mothers is as they are simply a means of deliverance only (that is her word, deliverance). Wolff also devours and spits up the traditional adoptive family mythology, to be sure, openly discussing that cost indicates buying a baby, and wondering if she can send it back after purchase.Other adoptive parents have lauded this book. I say, if Wolff's representation of how adoptive parents think is reality, a hard look at adoption, motives of adoptive parents, and the welfare of the child vis-a-vis adoption is sorely needed.Thumbs-down on the thinking that is presented throughout this book.
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