Since some agencies give preference to infertile PAP's or to those without any prior children in their home?

Adoption agencies market newborn adoption as a cure for infertility. Some infertile parents have been through devastating losses, and this is another avenue for agencies to prey on the vulnerable. Adoption is sold as a fix.

Agencies are about money......not children....nor either set of parents. Frankly, I don't think agencies remotely care about the parenting skills of fertile or infertile. It's all about who has the thicker wallet.

I'd look at them like they just landed from Mars...and ask them 'are you for real?" Honesty I wouldn't never do something like that and I'm an adoptive parent. Even before we were placed with a child I never even got jealous seeing a young teenage girl with a baby and thought "She should give up that baby for adoption." After all the baby is her's, and i know some great very young mothers. Some were mother at 20yrs old or a little younger. I was married at 20yrs old began planning a family then. So why would 23 be to young? Wow you must have very cute kids. It isn't normal behaviour, least not in my town....If they feel the need to do that then they need to professional help-fast.

Th Aust government using it as a process of elimination cut down on the numbers of people being able to apply for adoption. Too many applicants to children needing homes. If the applicants aren't needed or fit the profile of children they have in their books waiting for homes they simply knock back the applicants. They don't need you, that's one thing people who simply say "Lets adopt, and why can't we because we want too..." don't get. We fitted the needs of our child and what they needed in the adoption pool, other wise our application would have been shelved. It had very little to do with fertility in many ways.

It about the needs of the kids after all.

There are alot of people that want to adopt infants and younger children and saying only infertile couples can adopt is a quick expense-less way to weed out some folks. AND, my guess is that the infertile couples are more willing to pay more for their services than others.

I've seen NO proof or any data that shows infertile couples make better parents.

It's generally the private and/or faith based agencies that give preference to infertile PAPs. Some countries with international adoption programs do the same thing.

I don't think it's a matter of equally distributing babies, as you suggest. Rather, it's a perception of the PAPs being able to devote more time to a child, without having to share time and attention with other children. Conversely, the stereotype that parents are unable to love adopted children as much as they do biological children might be part of the reason.

Agencies want the most desperate, hungry clients.

It has NOTHING to do with what's best for children--or else kids they'd work on kids staying with mothers.

Then they'd be out of business--can't have that!

I guess the more desperate the customer is, the higher a price they'll pay to line the brokers pockets.