evidence: Yet adoption is not simple, clean, or easy. Adoption is a complex amalgam of business enterprise and social welfare program. It takes advantage of racism, patriarchy, and poverty to create the "domestic supply of infants" necessary to meet the needs of mostly White adoptive parents. And it takes pains to present itself as wholly positive for birth parents, adoptees, and adoptive parents. Against that idealized picture of adoption, legislators and judges create law where adoption is the perfect substitute for abortion. But this is only possible if we ignore the more complex and ambivalent view of adoption that we become familiar with by listening to birth parents and adopted persons.