TAKEN

TAKEN

I have never attended therapy relating to being “a taken person.” My “adopted parents” did not believe in therapy nor any other outside influence or opinions about their “adopted” children. Like Trump, they knew more than the doctors, therapists, and professionals. They instilled those prejudices in their stolen children.

I firmly, and now whole heartedly, believe every person involved in what is referred to as the adoption trilogy, or just interested in, needs to read Nancy Verrier’s book, “The Primal Wound.” Prior to any decisions being made, all adults involved should be required to undergo some sort of therapy and psychoanalysis, and the same for the child after said purchase and rearrangement. However, since most of these kidnappings and purchases take place outside of the law, there is little chance for such regulations and requirements to be enforced. The child will remain an afterthought to the needs of the adults. Children and babies are mere commodities to most hypocrites. Many, to this day, disgustingly support slavery and human trafficking for profit. That is my definition and opinion of “adoption” and I stick with it. If you are not adopted, kindly STFU. 

“I was TAKEN from…

My homeland

My people

My family

But it’s become a strange phenomenon when we connect, share our experiences, we develop an instant connection. We acknowledge, affirm, and validate each other… until we go deeper. We find ourselves having to say “based on my own experience…” What happened to the connection and validation? 

For so long we’ve adapted to this phenomenon by agreeing to use our own language, define our own words and assume others know how we’ve defined them. Because we’ve learned we’ve gotten here in so many different ways, it’s curious there is something that does connect us all. It’s time to call it for what it is.

The definition of “adoption” is the act or fact of legally taking someone else’s child and raising it as one’s own. 

Breaking it down, it’s taking someone else’s child. I was taught that taking anything that isn’t yours is wrong. It’s stealing. Logically then, taking a child who isn’t yours is also wrong. It’s kidnapping. But what if the law says I can take it and keep it as if it was mine all along? (Why am I even calling a child “it”?) does the law make it morally right, or does it just mean I won’t be arrested and put in jail?

When I used to say that I was “adopted” I really was saying I was taken according to this definition. But when we ask ourselves what does adoption mean, we seem to come up with all kinds of answers. So why have we replaced one word with another? We all have been taught that taking something that isn’t yours is wrong. Taking a child is an even worse offense. 

Why the cover up? Why the need to use a euphemism? It’s curious that when we make the initial contact and feel the instant connection, it’s not about where we ended up, but how we got here. Despite all the intricacies of the process, it’s all been summed up in the word, this euphemism: adoption. It’s formulaic. There are common standard operating procedures no matter what age, place, or background.

There comes a point when you know the truth of what really happened to you and you’re faced with the decision. Do I keep playing along, performing my part? or do I come out and expose the truth? Do I betray myself and stay quiet? or do I face the consequences of telling the truth? Do I remain complicit when I know crimes are being committed against my people? Do I choose self-preservation over the greater need to liberate others? 

I choose to say I am a TAKEN PERSON.”

Thank you, Moses, I identify with your words and thoughts more than anyone else’s. 

“I have yet to find anyone willing to publish this... so I post it here:

The Criminal Scheme Continues...

The illusion of adoption is over. The industry is being exposed for carrying on a centuries-old criminal scheme. Yet, the propaganda persists, and people are challenged to confront their own ideology and beliefs of adoption. While the debate focuses on whether to continue such a scheme, or abolish it, current investigations unearth new mass graves of infants, highlight testimonies from victims, and report ongoing casualties resulting from domestic violence in foster care and adoption placements. Looking at such overwhelming evidence, one would think it is obvious this industry needs to stop. So, why hasn’t it?

If the deaths, murders, and suicides of countless victims are not enough to convince our global leadership to put an end to these crimes against humanity, then what will? Our society has tolerated decades of abuse, violence and torture towards children in the care of the state. The same states legally remove the rights of the parents so it can take custody over their children and place them with care providers hired to protect and keep them safe. Time after time, case after case, state officials promise to ensure no more harm will come to the children in their care. Yet, questions remain who should be held accountable for these crimes. How should justice be served for lasting change? How do the surviving parents and families find peace in losing their child?

In the meantime, the human trafficking, aka, “adoption” industry runs a global multi billion dollar child supply market. Agencies, organizations, and lobby groups have demonstrated complete disregard to the death toll resulting from the industry they hold up as a pinnacle of humanity. Just how big is this market? Human trafficking has been considered one of the fastest growing criminal industries worldwide, currently $263 billion (A21) while adoption sits at ~$25 billion (Bloomberg), and surrogacy also ~$20 billion, but is projected to grow to $129 billion by 2032 (Global Economic Insights). This amounts to a combined total well over $300 billion worldwide annually. This can explain why human lives seem to be so disposable and expendable to an industry that has stopped at nothing to exploit the very lives it purports to save.

What is concerning is that reform measures are leading us towards a future with new child supply markets. With its propaganda securely entrenched in the very fabric of our society and an ever-expanding pool of women, surrogates, egg donors, and children, the industry knows it has a firm place in the world for generations to come. We are entering a new era with surrogacy and egg donation as emerging markets to carry on this criminal scheme. Scientists and doctors are already working out the ethical concerns regarding family planning. The Center for Bioethics and Culture has taken a stance against surrogacy citing issues of the exploitation of women, endangering their health, and the commodification of human lives. So, we find ourselves at the center of this Ethics War.  

It's possible that industry leaders will respond to these ethical dilemmas by removing more of the human element in the reproduction process. In fact, in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) is already a reality. IVG is the process of making gametes in a laboratory environment to be used in human reproduction. Gametes are synthesized through a stem cell process.  LabioTech and Santa Clara University indicate that scientists have proven IVG successful in mice and is poised to apply to human trials in the next 5 years. What does this mean for humankind? How many more will be added to our population of adopted (trafficked through adoption), unnatural, donor conceived, surrogacy born, lab-grown people?

At this time, it seems the industry lobby has taken hold of the reigns, steering the attention away from the criminal scheme and towards a larger child supply market with a higher profit potential. Recruited by the lobby, “adoption” reform advocates are leading the way. This is what we are up against. The truth is that we live in a society that prioritizes profit over people. It is of utmost importance that victims of this industry deprogram themselves from its propaganda and take a stand together to safeguard the future of our humanity.

Moses Farrow, LMFT, leads a mission-driven life to help victims of the global child supply market. As a trauma therapist and educator, his private practice specializes in supporting victims through the process of deprogramming and empowering them to seek restoration and justice. For the past decade, he’s led several initiatives advocating on behalf of child abuse survivors and victims of trafficking crimes. As an activist, he has campaigned on issues of suicide prevention, anti-racism, disability rights, and anti-trafficking. In 2020, he was named an Agent of Change by ABC News. He has been featured on numerous podcasts, has contributed to books, and presented at conferences on trauma and mental health. Currently he is focused on the crimes against children in foster and trafficking placements, which he’s calling a public health crisis. Learn more at Society for Adoption Truth.”

~ M.Farrow

#ChildAbusePreventionMonth 

#moderndayslavery 

#surrogacy 

#surrogacyprocess 

#invitrofertilization 

#AssistedReproductiveTechnology 

#stopchildtrafficking 

#stophumantrafficking

“As the narrative goes, there really isn’t anything more hurtful to an “adoptee” than to be rejected, outcasted, and made to feel insignificant and invisible. It’s even more hurtful when the rejection comes from those who talk about and encourage having a supportive community and the importance to “listen to adoptee voices.” 

I’m calling this out because I no longer speak up for myself, or my need for validation and acceptance in such a community. I speak up for the infants and children who are being murdered. This is something I have seen every other minority group does when any of their people’s lives are threatened and killed. While I recognize and applaud those who have supported my efforts and demonstrated the courage to speak up with me, I am utterly appalled and downright disgusted with others who have actively made attempts to silence me, minimize and deprioritize this crisis of infants and children being killed in our community. 

The fact is that boycotting me is helping people obtain and kill these children. This is more than disturbing. People want this industry to continue despite the murders, deaths, genocides, war crimes and slavery. WTF??? And they want me to be silent. The louder and bolder I get about the truth, the more pressure I have felt to succumb to them and stop. They don’t want people listening to my “adoptee voice.” I am literally raising awareness of children being murdered in our community. Why would anyone not want this truth out there???

However, let me be clear that I refuse to quit on these children. I refuse to have more children suffer and die because I stopped speaking up for them. I refuse to have any more deaths on my conscience. I refuse to be silenced. I have endured through far worse abuses. I want to be clear that such attempts to make me even more invisible is sick, pathetic, and cowardly. How does it look beating up on a member of a minority group, who’s disabled, traumatized, and trying to do something positive? 

I am someone who has survived my own suicide, and suicide losses of 3 of the closest people I grew up with in an abusive home. Of all the things I could be doing with the remainder of my life, I speak up for children being tortured and killed. I have gotten to the point where I’ve recognized this is so much bigger than me. The way I respond to these attempts at attacking me is to encourage all of us to channel our outrage towards stopping the child supply market in which these children are being tortured to death. It’s their lives and future that matter most, they should be our priority. Far too many are dead because they aren’t.”

#ChildAbusePreventionMonth

#ChildAbuseAwarenessMonth

#StopChildAbuse

#stopchildtrafficking

~ Moses Farrow