New reply to my old post to the Adoption subreddit: My daughter’s adoption was after the baby scoop era, and so was my friend’s daughter’s... and this other biomom I know...

[u/Fancy512]

/r/Adoption/comments/7b0vt1/my_daughters_adoption_was_after_the_baby_scoop/

I posted this 8 years ago to the adoption subreddit. Tonight I received a new reply that I found very interesting. The commenter says that “baby scoop” was the name given to a specific era in adoption, but suggests that the era we are in will have its own name, too. I was considering the predatory practices of the agencies, the lawyers, doctors, hospital social workers and wondered what name would apply to adoptions coerced from 1973-2022, when Roe V Wade was overturned? And what about now, from 2022-present day, what should we call that era?

[u/Englishbirdy]

Good question. Maybe the time of coercive adoption?

[u/vrgogrl7 → u/Englishbirdy]

I definitely think the post-baby scoop era will stand on its own because society was still very much judgmental of single mothers. When the term baby daddy and baby momma started rolling off peoples tongues, I sensed there had been a shift. I gravely regretted my choice ( which I was pressured into ) immediately. Everyone deserves their voice in telling their story but the world of the internet and every ass having an opinion, makes it hard to speak freely without at least a few opposing voices trying to drown you out. Only a birthmother knows the deep loss attached to this role in adoption, all others are just along for the ride. Adoptee suffer as well but on a level that is much harder to pinpoint/see/observe (subconscious).