{"product_id":"the-child-catchers-rescue-trafficking-and-the-new-gospel-of-adoption-hardcover","title":"The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathryn Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jessie Hawkins' adopted daughter told her she had another mom back in Ethiopia, Jessie didn't, at first, know what to think. She'd wanted her adoption to be great story about a child who needed a home and got one, and a family led by God to adopt. Instead, she felt like she'd done something wrong. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of reproductive rights, pitched as a \"win-win\" compromise in the never-ending abortion debate. But as Kathryn Joyce makes clear in \u003ci\u003eThe Child Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e, adoption has lately become even more entangled in the conservative Christian agenda. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To tens of millions of evangelicals, adoption is a new front in the culture wars: a test of \"pro-life\" bona fides, a way for born again Christians to reinvent compassionate conservatism on the global stage, and a means to fulfill the \"Great Commission\" mandate to evangelize the nations. Influential leaders fervently promote a new \"orphan theology,\" urging followers to adopt en masse, with little thought for the families these \"orphans\" may already have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Conservative evangelicals control much of that industry through an infrastructure of adoption agencies, ministries, political lobbying groups, and publicly-supported \"crisis pregnancy centers,\" which convince women not just to \"choose life,\" but to choose adoption. Overseas, conservative Christians preside over a spiraling boom-bust adoption market in countries where people are poor and regulations weak, and where hefty adoption fees provide lots of incentive to increase the \"supply\" of adoptable children, recruiting \"orphans\" from intact but vulnerable families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Child Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e is a shocking exposÃ(c)f what the adoption industry has become and how it got there, told through deep investigative reporting and the heartbreaking stories of individuals who became collateral damage in a market driven by profit and, now, pulpit command. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Anyone who seeks to adopt -- of whatever faith or no faith, and however well-meaning -- is affected by the evangelical adoption movement, whether they know it or not. The movement has shaped the way we think about adoption, the language we use to discuss it, the places we seek to adopt from, and the policies and laws that govern the process. In \u003ci\u003eThe Child Catchers\u003c\/i\u003e, Kathryn Joyce reveals with great sensitivity and empathy why, if we truly care for children, we need to see more clearly.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathryn Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist based in New York City whose work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNation, Mother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e, Slate, the \u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. A 2011 recipient of the Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting on Global Religion, she has also been awarded residencies and fellowship support by the Nation Institute Investigative Fund, the MacDowell Colony, the Bellagio Center, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eQuiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement\u003c\/i\u003e and as associate editor at \u003ci\u003eReligion Dispatches\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52710987989325,"sku":"9781586489427","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/K1MxN3BFUHRUNDJXcDRXejNwTHBHQT09.webp?v=1762359635","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-child-catchers-rescue-trafficking-and-the-new-gospel-of-adoption-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}