adoptees in the modern age of commercialized adoption are prizes, gifts, kickbacks, trophies, consumer luxuries, tokens of success and status. run with the Veblen-style analysis. 🥚
Underneath the Christian zeal is something even more American: greed.
@gaudipern.bsky.socialMy face when I heard that Liberty University offered full ride scholarships to underage teen moms for *decades* contingent on them being shipped off to a maternity home and giving their newborns up to University-approved couples who happened to be big alumni donors:
media.tenor.com
a man wearing a watch is covering his mouth with his hand
Alt: Miss Jay clutching himself lest the evil of that story reach him.
