If kids are 'better off,' does it matter whether they are adopted or abducted?

[Birth Mother,] First Mother Forum: If kids are 'better off,' does it matter whether they are adopted or abducted?:


“But aren’t they better off”? That’s the question that’s always asked when people learn about the possibility that a child adopted illegally may be returned to his original family. The unstated hubris is that children are always better off with middle class American families than say, with a single Dad in Virginia, poor parents in rural China, or a couple in impoverished Guatemala.