Pro-life vid of day: TX mom offers son for adoption on Craigslist
by LauraLoo
A Texas woman was free on bail Wednesday, despite charges that she offered up her 3-year-old son for adoption on Craigslist to ease her anxiety.
Stephanie Christine Redus was freed Tuesday after she posted $1,000 bond on a state charge of advertising the placement of a child, a misdemeanor. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Houston next week.
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According to court records… she is pregnant again.
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May.29, 2013 12:00 pm |
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I bet a family could be found who would adopt an older child like this, but moms, please consult a family law attorney, not craigslist! I hope she finds some legal help.
Did anyone stop to think that maybe her hormonal changes due to this most recent pregnancy caused such irrational behavior in the first place? When I was pregnant with my daughter, I was straight-up wacky.
What an evil man he needs to be in jail, oh it was a woman, uh, never mind.
I don’t think arresting people like this (yes, U104, single fathers who would do something like this I feel the same way about) does any good. She’s obviously overwhelmed and doesn’t feel capable of caring for her son, I think it would be best to look at that post as a cry for help and get social services involved in the family, make sure that the kid isn’t being abused or whatever, and then get her back on her feet. She raised him for three years, I bet something happened recently (the pregnancy probably has a lot to do with it), that has got her feeling like this.
I’m way more disturbed by the other mother mentioned in the video, who tried to sell her two kids to bail her boyfriend out of jail.
Oh, and I find it disturbing if people think that adoption is anywhere near the best case scenario for this little boy, unless she’s being abusive or neglectful. Separating a kid that old from his mother permanently could cause some major damage, and should be a last resort.
We live in a culture wher children are seen as a commodity — items to be purchased, sold, or discarded at will.
Look for more stories like this. This indicates that there is already a thriving underground market in trafficking children…. so much so that a young woman thinks this is legal behavior.
It’s only not trafficking if an adoption agency does it. :/
It’s only not trafficking if an adoption agency does it. :/
Oh, yes. Those evil people that try to help children that need families find families that want them. Legally. It sounds like Denise is now posting as Jack.
Where did I say anyone was evil?
Adoption is a business like any other. Some agencies are good, others… Not so much. You should read up on American agencies paying parents in Ethiopia and other developing countries to adopt out their kids, it’s pretty unethical and horrifying. If you really think a lot of the lawyers for private adoptions are in it to help people, not for a fat paycheck, then I have some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell. I don’t understand why people would uncritically praise adoption, it definitely has its issues.
I think biological parents should have more say-so in the goings-on of adoptions. But then again, I’m a libertarian at heart, so I think the bureaucracy involved in adoption is just ridiculous and only hurts children and their families.
Have you ever noticed the double standard about judgements on adoption versus abortion? When it comes to abortion, people can universally agree that various circumstances can make parenting and raising a child incredibly challenging, if in fact downright impossible. Often people suggest abortion as an immediate solution. Once the child is born, however, there is a large camp of people who will argue until the cows come home that biological parents are always well-suited and equipped to raise and parent their children. Obviously, given the fact that children are abused and newborns are thrown in trash cans, etc., this is not the case. If there was a huge increase in the advertising and marketing of adoption as a positive and loving option, and a corresponding decrease in the easy availability of hiring a hit man to abort the child, adoption rates would soar and child abuse and infanticide rates would decrease. Why is this poor woman being charged when she really just needed to be redirected to an appropriate adoption agency?
I don’t understand why she thought it best to make a plan for adoption for her 3-year-old but keep her baby in utero. I would imagine the mom and 3-year-old (minus her anxiety and hardships) have a loving relationship. Also, doesn’t she have a network of friends, family or neighbors that can assist her with help or breaks through the course of the week – or even 1 person who can help her find resources available that she never thought of? Finally, she needs to put abstinence into place so this doesn’t happen again. LL
I’m gonna just come out an say it: when I had a 17 month old and a newborn who NEVER stopped crying (he’s almost 14 and still sort of dissatisfied with the way things turned out), it crossed my mind SEVERAL times to walk him down to the dumpster. We didn’t have Craig’slist then, but that could’ve been an option too.
I hope she’s able to find help if she wants to parent her children but feels she is unable. I hope she is able to get enough mental health counseling to compensate for her lack of medication. I hope she finds a more reliable form of long-term birth control if pregnancy/birth/parenting is really too much for her.
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” Once the child is born, however, there is a large camp of people who will argue until the cows come home that biological parents are always well-suited and equipped to raise and parent their children. Obviously, given the fact that children are abused and newborns are thrown in trash cans, etc., this is not the case. If there was a huge increase in the advertising and marketing of adoption as a positive and loving option, and a corresponding decrease in the easy availability of hiring a hit man to abort the child, adoption rates would soar and child abuse and infanticide rates would decrease. ”
Adoption is obviously preferable to abortion, abortion should never happen at all, but I have no idea why anyone, ever, would have the goal of higher adoption rates rather than reduction of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies happening in the first place. No one’s goal should be a bunch of moms having to have someone else raise their child. And I don’t think adoption should be “marketed” (and it’s like people are pretending that there’s not abuse in some adoptive families as well, which is provably false).
The first option should always and forever be doing everything we can to get the biological parents in a place where they can raise their own child, and getting society to a place where our teen and unwed pregnancy rates are much. much lower. Oh, and improving mental healthcare and poverty should help reduce child abuse as well. Why should adoption be the go-to instead of this? Adoption should be rare, as it is, and for kids that really need a home, not because it’s easier to have a teen mom adopt out her baby than support her in life.