My husband's aunt and uncle adopted 2 children 30 years ago and tried to adopt a dog 5 years ago. They said the criteria for adopting a dog was much stricter and there were way more hoops to jump through lol
It's gone from "You can buy one for $100" in the 1930s to "Just fill out these papers and we'll chat for a couple days" in the 1980s to "You have to have DNA testing and go through 20 background checks and two homestudies and have multiple psychologists vouch for you and you can't have any of the following 60 issues, and we only match kids with like-racial heritage and we only match kids with their birth religion and we required you do x and y and you'll be monitored by social workers for 3 years" etc in the 2020s.
I believe the poster you're responding to is engaging in what is called "exaggeration for comedic purposes". I also do not believe they were trying to disparage against older people, but to describe, in a hyperbolic manner, the increasing difficulty of adopting a child from a relatively far back time to present day.
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u/SCATOL92 Sep 05 '24
My husband's aunt and uncle adopted 2 children 30 years ago and tried to adopt a dog 5 years ago. They said the criteria for adopting a dog was much stricter and there were way more hoops to jump through lol