For my topic I chose Adoption.
In the story Unwind it is acceptable for a mother to “stork”
their child. By that, just like a thief in the night, the parent who is considered
“unfit” drops the baby off on another families front porch if they don’t get
caught then the baby is considered that other families kid, if they want.
“That’s illegal," announces Lev.
"Once you get storked, that baby's yours."
Adoption in the book is were they put there kids on front
porches, in our present society you DO have the choice to put your kid on a
front porch but it is not as common as it is in Unwind. For example, in the
story a baby got put up for adoption or in other words got passed around in a
neighborhood for 2 weeks, the baby eventually died from not getting the care it
needed to survive.
Now even though it is more common in the book for this kind
of “adoption” it still does happen in our society now.
Just this passed August, police found a newborn baby wrapped
in a trash bag inside of a dumpster outside of a New Jersey apartment building.
The mother, I’m guessing, was trying to kill this baby but however did not
succeed because a group of teenage boys found the baby boy.
“There
was a time, shortly after the Bill of Life was passed, that Dumpsters
such
as that would be tempting to girls like her. Desperate girls who would leave
unwanted
newborns in the trash. It had become so common that it wasn't even
deemed
newsworthy anymore—it had become just a part of life.”
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