Daniël van Deutekom wrote that children, according to him, were not for sale and had the right to the security of their mother. He called adoption a bitter necessity but argued that deliberately taking children away from their mother a few days after birth was malicious selfishness. Van Deutekom compared the practice to taking puppies away, noting that even they stayed with their mother for seven weeks—comparable to nine months for a baby, in his view. As a father, he claimed he could hardly have been home and involved more often, yet he believed his daughter primarily sought the security of her mother. He asserted that deliberately withholding that, just like in the case of abortion, was not about the health of the child but about the desires of more powerful people. He wrote that he was convinced this practice would eventually come to an end. #Kinderen #Adoptie #Moederliefde (translated)
