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I mean, this is just adoption essentially. Would it be more or less heart-breaking if they all starved homeless on the street instead?

• tptacek 8y ago
  No, as the story says, it's not just adoption essentially.
• ReptileMan 8y ago
  It is "just adoption" if the kid is lucky. Otherwise it is horror story. Edit: Also it was not done for the good of the kids, but for the good of the parents. Which puts it into different situation.
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• ceejayoz 8y ago
  > Would it be more or less heart-breaking if they all starved homeless on the street instead? Did you read the article? > They were often chained up in a barn and forced to work long hours in the field. Milton remembers being called a “slave” by his new father figure, a label he accepted at the time because he didn’t understand what it meant. > RaeAnn left home at 17, shortly after undergoing a brutally traumatic situation. As a young teen she was kidnapped and raped, which resulted in a pregnancy. She was sent away to a home for pregnant girls, and had her baby adopted when she returned. I think plenty would take homelessness over slavery. Add in the physical and sexual abuse that's probably commonplace in "hey I went out and bought a kid" scenarios, too.