I wrote this letter to the LA Times in response to today’s cover story - “Pioneer in an experiment called open adoption” -

Dear LA Times,

I just read today’s article on open adoption. Having adopted our 20 mo./old daughter (we brought her home at 3 weeks), I take offense at the negative portrayal of open adoption. In a time where hundreds of thousands of U.S. children are un-adopted, highlighting this story as somehow representative of adoption in general and open adoption in particular is misleading at best and discouragingly deceptive at worst. Instead of writing a 3 page cover story that portrays a negative open adoption that discourages people from pursuing domestic adoptions, what about investigating the negative impact of unadopted children or the foster-care system’s need for overhaul? Would it be better that children be left in a notoriously broken foster-care system, or that U.S. children be left behind because foreign-adoptions are emotionally “easier” for adoptive parents? Shame on us as a country if that is so.

Scott McLane

This topic continues to stir my passion for justice.

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