At the risk of still treating these children as commodities, what if the rich priviliged folks who think it's a good idea to swoop in and 'rescue' kids had to make mandatory contributions to the kid's country of origin? The way I see it, for some people it's always going to be much easier to adopt a specific child than to commit themselves to an abstract ideal of quality of life for lots of unknown people. Since they're already willing to pay fuckloads of money (I'm not sure how much adoption costs but I hear it's a fair bit) to make it happen, then if enough of that money could be funnelled back to those third world countries then pretty much everyone would benefit. Except that then orphans etc would still be being treated as cash cows. I dunno, there seems like there should be a way to make this work.

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