The Complex Economic Maze of Adoption

Adoption is a process that brings adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees into a common set of events, but in wildly differing and often unpredictable ways. Things that those outside the adoption experience rarely need to consider - tax structure, legislation, and the always-evolving efforts restrict and protect women's bodily autonomy - all influence and impact the adoption process, impact options available to adoptive parents and those available to birth parents. How does a business designed to be a resource for both adoptive parents and birth parents in the most important decisions of their lives work? Our guest, Molly Rampe Thomas of Choice Network Adoptions, is a leader in the field and she joins us to explain some of these mysteries and shed light on existential threats to the adoption process and to those who most need the process to run smoothly.