This opinion piece, written from the perspective of an adoptee, questions recent US intercountry adoption legislation and why no international adoptees were consulted during the drafting of the legislation. According to the author, the bill is designed to make intercountry adoption easier for adoptive families in the US, rather than in the best interests of the children being adopted who often are not orphans and have families with whom they could be placed. “This is not a family preservation bill, it is a bill designed to get more children in the pipeline for wealthy American couples to adopt them, period.”
