Connor Howe

And I would still feel the same feelings.

I still felt no different than any of the other people that are in these support groups or speaking on these podcasts.

And I was like, I got to probably say something because people don't realize that open adoption isn't the solution that it's been presented as, basically.

Yeah.

I mean, I make a lot of videos talking about the history of adoption and even open adoption.

I don't need to get into the whole history of it here, but like it was it's really a value proposition.

You have a lot of people that are thinking about parenting their children and adoption is kind of the alternative.

And when the number of people interested in adoption was shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and shrinking after Roe v. Wade.

The adoption industry was like, well, we're losing money.

We're not in business anymore.

A lot of these industries or agencies are going out of business.

They're trying to figure out how do we continue to facilitate options because we don't want to go out of business and lose our jobs or whatever.

And so kind of the next move was open adoption.

It wasn't really this idea of we're going to make adoptable lives better or the natural parents lives better.

The adopters – it wasn't about anyone.

It was just – it's a business.

Businesses do what they need to do to survive, right?

And so like that was kind of the way it was presented.

But yeah, to your point, the way that it's presented today in the industry of adoption and the world of adoption is really like a – open adoption is the cure to all these problems.

Like when I was growing up, it was like you could have been in a closed adoption and you're in an open adoption though.