In terms of ethics, adopting is beautiful. But there’s that one ugly factor that comes to make it so much worse: demographics.

If people come to adopt children instead of having their own, we won’t have enough new people to drive the economy (I know, I know, economists suck, but they’re right on that one). No one will be there to produce goods and services for ageing population falling out of workforce.

Children that aren’t going to get adopted will still be alive and join the ranks of adults. Children that weren’t born will not.

I wish there could be a good way to have both, though.