THE CHILD CATCHERS: HOW THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT CAPTURED THE WORLD ADOPTION INDUSTRY
Book ID/图书代码： 00500010B38534
English Summary/英文概要： THE CHILD CATCHERS is the first comprehensive investigation into this highly disturbing phenomenon. Joyce will trace the history of adoptions since the 1950s and examine how adoption has become increasingly enmeshed in anti-abortion politics and tied into abstinence-only education. She will focus on several organizations that have been accused of coercive practices, such as Bethany Christian Services, the nation’s largest adoption agency. Bethany has an explicitly evangelical orientation, but it nonetheless facilitates public, state adoptions, and it receives millions of dollars in federal funding. Joyce will interweave stories of birthmothers who have been affected by the Christian right’s efforts to pressure them into giving up their children for adoption to wealthier, agency-approved Christian couples—and she will do undercover investigative reporting to expose abuses. Last August Kathryn published an investigative report in The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090914/joyce) about the ties between crisis pregnancy centers and adoption, which drew a tremendous amount of attention. This book will take that report and run it all the way to its roots. Adoption regularly captures headlines, especially given the recent trend of celebrities choosing to adopt, but these articles describe adoption as a compassionate act and do not investigate the adoption process or the institutions involved. With the advent of the Christian right’s push for adoption, the pressure on women to relinquish children will only increase.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《孩子捕手》首次全面调查了这高度令人不安的现象。Joyce将 为我们追溯自1950年代以来这段收养的历史,并研究收养如何在反堕胎政治学中变得越来越混乱和谴责唯禁欲教育。她将专注于几个被指控强制性做法的组织, 如伯大尼基督教服务,全国最大的收养机构。伯大尼有一个明确的福音派取向,但它仍然促进公众、国家收养,以及它收到数百万美元的联邦资金。Joyce将组织受到了基督教徒的压迫让他们努力放弃对孩子的收养来让自己变富裕的birthmothers的故事,并且她将秘密从事调查性报道揭露滥用。去年8月Kathryn在《民族报》上发表了一份关于危机怀孕中心和收养之间的关系的调查报告,这吸引了大量的关注。这本书将拿这份报告并从根本上来运行它所有的方式。
定期收养成为头条新闻,尤其是考虑到最近的名人选择性收养趋势。这些文章描述收养作为一个慈悲的行为和不调查收养过程或涉及到的法规。随着基督教徒的推动,对女性放弃孩子的压力只会增加。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：Journalist and Religion Dispatches associate editor Joyce (Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, 2009) broadens the understanding of adoption’s conundrums, not only within the United States, but also internationally, with deep investigations of children from Liberia, Ethiopia, Korea, Rwanda, Haiti and China.
Perhaps the least publicized development within the adoption realm during the past few decades is the aggressive involvement of evangelical churches. Parishioners, even those with multiple biological children, are adopting orphans from overseas, as well as many children who have been wrenched from biological mothers (and sometimes fathers) as part of for-profit schemes. Some of the church members see adoption as a faith-based mission—as an alternative to abortion but also part of a biblical mandate to care for the oppressed and impoverished while simultaneously saving souls. Joyce explains that although such adoptions might seem like a win-win solution, in fact, birth mothers and families, especially in third-world countries, are torn apart by the international transactions. Joyce studied academic treatises and traveled widely across the U.S. and to locales in other nations rarely visited by tourists. The number of compelling anecdotes and case studies is impressive. Whenever ethically defensible, Joyce uses real names and normally indicates fictitious names when she saw no moral alternative. Although the overall picture is grim despite tsunamis of good intentions, the grimness is occasionally relieved by righteous individuals and institutions trying to do better. One of the relatively upbeat case studies focuses on the megachurch of celebrity pastor Rick Warren. He admits his evangelical members involved in international adoptions have not always proceeded perfectly, but Joyce suggests that he is sincere about learning from mistakes in a drastically shifting landscape.
Groundbreaking investigative and explanatory reporting.
About the Author/作者介绍： Kathryn Joyce是 一个居住在纽约的记者,作品曾登在《民族报》,《琼斯母亲》,《候选人名单》、《大西洋月刊》和其他出版物。2011因报道全球宗教成为骑士卢斯奖学金获 得者,她也获得国家研究所调查基金,麦道维尔殖民地,百乐宫中心和普利策危机报告中心提供的奖金。她是《唐吉可德》的作者:在基督教父权制运动和宗教的助 理编辑分派。 Kathryn Joyce is a journalist based in New York City whose work has appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, Slate, The Atlantic, 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 Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement and an associate editor at Religion Dispatches.
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