Are Banks Building or Breaking Families?
There are natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, epidemic diseases, and mining disasters that break and destroy families.
Then there are man-made disasters that are called foreclosures.
This is the stuff that makes a family go homeless because for whatever reason, the parent/s can no longer afford to pay their monthly bills and mortgage payments to the bank.
Oddly enough, banking companies, like The Freddie Mac Foundation supports adoption, perhaps as a reinvestment initiative for the future. I would like to think rebuilding a community, while keeping families together, would be the focused, ultimate goal, (like they show on Extreme Makeover), but I'm not exactly sure what a banking-firm's interest would be in terms of the adoption industry. Would anyone care to guess what's really going on in the minds of people "helping build new futures?"
Who's future? Which families? Those who can afford to pay their very expensive mortgage payments on-time each and every month? Do we live in a world where a bank decides who will parent our children simply because it looks good on one paper? Good Lord, could you imagine if both mothers were present at the time of and adoption signing, as it's required for a house-closing? I wonder how many would support legalized adoption then? I truly don't think the general public realizes just how dirty the money laundering is in the adoption industry is. Face it folks, it is a BUSINESS INDUSTRY, just like medicine, technology and tobacco. It's created to generate a profit. It's plain and simple for some, and heart breaking for most. It's bottom-line for all.
Tell me, how often do you think the following happens: something happens in a couple's life (like a sudden illness, accident, disaster, or loss) and a parent can't pay his bills and the bank and creditors beging to call. The bank tosses that family out of their house, because they're not getting their money. Kids are forced to go into foster-care because they have no home to go to, their parents are always fighting, dad has left to go "somewhere" and school is about to start. They have no idea what the hell is going on. They start getting messed-up. They're "told" to go to a therapist, and get placed on anti-psychotics because they are "exhibiting irrational behavior". Meanwhile, what is being done for mom, dad, their housing and job situation... and what is that banking institution doing? Promoting ADOPTION? What sort of system is THAT?
I can think of three words: Conflict of interest.