Anne Moody - Child Adoption
Anne Moody is author of
The Children
Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption(2018). The book illuminates the worlds of foster care and adoption
through the personal stories Moody witnessed in her many years working in the
foster care and adoption systems. Moody covers decades of dramatic societal
change, including the pendulum swings regarding open adoption and attitudes
toward birth parents, the gradual acceptance of gay and lesbian adoption, the
proliferation of unregulated adoption facilitators in the U.S., ethical
concerns related to international adoption, and the role money inevitably plays
in the foster care and adoption systems. Special attention is given to the
practice of "baby brokering” and the accompanying exorbitant finder’s fees and
financial incentives encouraging birth mothers to relinquish (or pretend that
they are planning to relinquish) their babies that permeate much of U.S. infant
adoption today. Moody's book makes a strong plea for change and gives
suggestions about how the foster care and adoption systems could work together
for the benefit of children and families.
