Following the lead of a growing number of countries, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced today a permanent ban on foreign adoption agencies. The Communist Party of China announced the move after considerable public pressure on their domestic social media sites, highlighting the especially horrible conditions that children are exposed to in the US; including testimonies from a number of expats who'd had personal experience with America's toxic child-rearing environment. The total ban had been proposed for some time: in 2007, China put severe restrictions on adoptive couples, vetting them especially "with an increased scrutiny of families’ lifestyles as well as imposing age limits and restricting adoptions to heterosexual married couples," according to the South China Morning Post. Thus, the previous Chinese law was already better than the standards that most US States have in place.
The anti-China hawks in the Corporate Media are foaming with outrage; hypocritically pretending that they really care about families and that the Chinese Government's move is some great act of Commie-Pinko tyranny. What's likely angered the Uniparty a lot more is that they are well on the way to commodifying human trafficking, which promised to be a future growth industry just like the Abortion Racket. The loss of China represents no doubt a major import source of human capital just as the overseas market for aborted fetal tissue and organs brings high prices.
If Americans still had any capacity for feeling shame, it would be a national disgrace that the Chinese Communists care more about the welfare of children than we do. It's not at all a positive reflection upon us that the general consensus seems to be that a child growing up in a Chinese orphanage has better future prospects than one growing up in an American home. We might look askance at China's top-down and often heavy-handed approaches to their youth; but there's no use papering-over or excusing the fact that, however awkwardly, they are succeeding in preparing a new generation while our culture is failing. That's the whole point. It's not that Communism is the ideal system: it's that we're not giving anymore any reason for anybody to think otherwise.
It didn't used to be this way. Certainly there were abuses and waste in our more libertarian system, but it generally worked. Families were considered the pillar of the community, hence the involvement of local communities in investing in the youth was important. The Dead White Males who were community leaders back then had an entirely different philosophical approach to what we have today. Children were not the 'property' of the State; nor were they the 'property' of the parents: the general consensus was that children were a gift from God and raising and nurturing them was a sacred trust.
Somewhere along the line, though, Americans lost that sense of a sacred trust and children became just another commodity on the national balance-sheet. Parenting is calculated on a cost/benefit analysis by most Americans; and as far as the general community is concerned, children only are valuable insofar as they represent a profit to government and corporate bureaucracies---otherwise they are expendable. Only a culture in an advanced state of degeneracy could look at the levels of violence, suicide, addiction, illiteracy, poor mental and physical health of its youth and shrug it off as the new normal.
The worst thing about it all is that the 'Conservatives' and the 'Christians' in America are the ones doing most of the shrugging. When they aren't, like the self-righteous Pharisee, thanking God that they are not like other men they're cynically looking at these problems as potential opportunities to pad their own pockets while lecturing the human debris left over from their policies to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.
The problem isn't with China, it is with us. China is only acting in self-preservation: an instinct which we Americans seem to have lost. If we hope to salvage what we can out of our future, we must recover the social will to do so. Certainly we can't rely on top-down solutions because neither faction of the Uniparty has any particular desire to implement any. Whether or not Americans have enough character left in them to do it though, is another question.
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