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Good to know that adoptions aren't "real." So if a kid's parent dies and they're living with an aunt, that's not "real" and the government is free to tear the child's remaining family away and replace it with rape and imprisonment.

Way to mitigate the issue. Damn the consequences.

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adoptions have a paper trail.

Not a given, particularly for people fleeing countries in crisis, disarray, or violent turmoil. Or if a parent died during the migration, etc.

> if a parent died during the migration

so if a parent dies any rando in the caravan can claim the child and get all the attached benefits? gee, wonder if that kind of reward would have side effects on the safety of migrants with children.

What "benefits" are you talking about?

Migrants at the border are handled with different policies if they arrive with children rather than alone

Births don't even have a paper trail in much of the world.

Do non-familial adoptions actually happen in any sort of significant numbers in central american countries?

I'd actually like to know if blended families occur more often than "child recycling". (Blended Families == adoption, divorce and remarriage, godfathering/godmothering, other culturally normatized familial-like relationships that aren't necessarily accepted as a "nuclear family"...)

(Disclaimer: I have no real opinions on this, but I'd like to get the facts.)

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