Mr. Stirling,
First, precious few, if any, transnational adoptions involve newborns. Those are domestic adoptions.
Secondly, what you are describing is an outdated proven false theory called Tabula rasa that claimed infnats wre born as blank slates.
It is now well known that neonates grow accustomed to the rhythm, sounds and smells of their mother and surroundings in utero. Even if they have no conscious memory of those, being seperated from all of of it can be a trauma that can cause neurological challenges that can last a lifetime.
Third, whatever age one is adopted at, all adoptees grow into adulthood and then beocme consciously aware of what they have lost: their heritage, their culture, their lineage and their family members. Read some blogs or books by transnational adoptees and you will be quickly become acutely aware that seperation from their culture is very disturbing both subconsciously and consciously.
As for children being a nation’s “Precious resource.” That does not mean what you implied. Parents desire children to carry on the family name and sometimes the family business. Children around the world grow to adults who have some level of responsibility for their parents and their parent’s generation. When a country is strip-mined for their children as commodities for overseas adoption, they lose that. The child loses and so do the parents and the nation as a whole. What’s left are grieivng parents. It’s like when China decided to limit female births and then suffered a shortage of wives for young men coming of age. It’s an imbalance of nature.
Suggested readings:
- Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier.
- All 3 books by Jane Jeong Trenka.
- Children with Traumatic Separation https://www.nctsn.org/sites/default/files/resources/children_with_traumatic_separation_professionals.pdf
- How Mother-Child Separation Causes Neurobiological Vulnerability Into Adulthood https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/how-mother-child-separation-causes-neurobiological-vulnerability-into-adulthood.html
- A sudden and lasting separation from a parent can permanently alter brain development https://theconversation.com/a-sudden-and-lasting-separation-from-a-parent-can-permanently-alter-brain-development-98542
