Close-up portrait of two men smiling. Subject 1 (Left): Hair: Shoulder-length, wavy, dark brown. Eyewear: Rectangular, thin-framed glasses. Attire: Black crew-neck shirt. Subject 2 (Right): Hair: Short, side-parted, reddish-brown. Attire: Bright yellow polo shirt with maroon contrast stitching and a maroon inner collar. Jewelry: Small gold stud earring in the left ear. Background: Environment: Dimly lit indoor venue. Decorations: Pink, geometric hanging ornaments and overhead string lights. Elements: Soft-focus background includes a television screen and other patrons.

Valentine’s Day win: 50° in Minneapolis, frisbee with the dogs at the local park, church treasurer duties ✅, and dinner at Hell’s Kitchen.
Six years waiting to adopt. Still hopeful. Still building the life we can’t wait to share. 💕
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Photo of prospective adoptive parents smiling and standing in a garden.

Hi👋 we are Tucker and Timmy, home-study approved adoptive parents living in Minnesota. We are actively seeking to adopt an infant to grow our family.
Please visit our site to learn about our home, our lives, and our values.
tuckerandtimmyadopt.com
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“As foreign demand rose and the revolutionary notion of a child’s right to remain with their birth family was suppressed,” Nolan writes, “the principle of the best interests of the child was defined in a straightforward way: material wealth.” As with much of the Global South, permanent international adoption came to supersede older, informal modes of mutual aid. Among many Indigenous groups, personal struggles—including with childcare—are shared by the community. But coerced adoptions only accelerate the dissolution of existing support systems: a textbook example of how colonial logic disrupts perfectly functional societies. Blame for children being transferred abroad—if cast at all—almost always landed on mothers. They were often called madres desnaturalizadas, or “denatured mothers,” by journalists.

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