Thanks for reading and taking time to comment, Jedd. I do agree with you that both are important, but I'm wondering whether you've observed that the Christian community is too focused on adoption-as-gospel and not enough on trying to help solve the problems that make a child available for adoption. It's an impression I have, with an admittedly narrow range of experience. (Or if they are helping with global poverty/AIDS/clean water AND adoption, sometimes they don't connect the fact that one feeds the other.) 

I suppose this post was directed at those who have a one-dimensional view of adoption -- those who aren't also helping with clean water, microfinance, education and maternal health efforts, and/or those who think that inter-country adoption is preferable to extended family care or even growing up in poverty (and you clearly aren't in that category!). 

Thank you, truly, for giving me some things to think about re: how I frame the discussion, and about my assumptions about the community at large.