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The Church and Forced Adoption

It has been pointed out to me that the Bible (see link) is opposed to the stealing of children from single mothers and the poor. I wonder, then, why the church seems to support the current system in England and Wales.

See Job 24:9

(that's in the link)

The fatherless child is snatched from the breast;
the infant of the poor is seized for a debt.

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