Motivated by good intentions or not, these changes have left thousands of orphans unadopted. This is too high a price to pay for bureaucratic screw-tightening.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, while it may or may not materially affect the foreign-adoption statistics, adoption has been vilified by the political fringes in the United States. Alt-right social media light up with attacks on transracial adoption. And\u00a0some on the far left<\/a>\u00a0attack<\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe propaganda put out by the mega-billion-dollar adoption industry that there are thousands of orphans \u2018languishing\u2019 in orphanages waiting to be rescued or saved.\u201d Big Adoption, corporate villain.<\/p>\n Today, my daughter is a freshman in high school. She spends too much time on Instagram but is killing it in her classes. And what about our giving experiment? In truth, I don\u2019t know or care what my daughter has done for my income or health. But my happiness? It spikes every time she looks at me and I remember the magic day we met.<\/p>\n That\u2019s something more dads, moms and especially kids deserve in this unhappy world.<\/p>\n